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  Reinhold Klaus / Carl Geyling Atelier Vienna “Cubist Man with top hat and flowers” stained glass window c. 1930

  REINHOLD KLAUS (1881-1963) Vienna, Austria

  CARL GEYLING ATELIER (founded 1841) Vienna, Austria

  Man with tophat and flowers   c. 1930

  Window of stained and hand-painted leaded glass

  Provenance: Estate of Carl Geyling (1814-1880), Vienna

  H: 17 3/4″ x W: 14 1/2″

  Reinhold Klaus studied from 1898-1902 with Alfred Roller at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. In 1914 Klaus married into the Carl Geyling family and became extensively involved with with stained glass painting. As early as 1918 Klaus worked on a stained glass window for the Siegestempel am Bisamberg in Vienna. In 1934 he became a professor of stained glass painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule, as well as creative director of the C. Geylings Erben glass painting company. Reinhold Klaus, a member of the Künstlerhaus since 1924 received many prizes and honors. He worked on commissions for the St. Veits cathedral in Prague, the St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna and many others.

   

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  Andre Thuret French Art Deco Rare Handblown Art Glass Vase c. 1930

  ANDRÉ THURET  (1898-1965)  France

  “Organic” vase/bowl  c. 1930

  Handblown and formed clear glass with bubble technique encapsulating a frosty white oxide.

  Signed: ANDRÉ THURET

  H: 2 3/8″ x D: 4″ x W: 6 1/4″

  Andre Thuret was one of the first modern French studio glass artists and a contemporary of Maurice Marinot. He was born on November 3, 1898 in Paris. It is by science that Andre Thuret came to art. It is in Thuret the engineer and the chemist who serve Thuret the vase artist.  The scientist places at the disposal of the creator of forms, rates/rhythms and colors the fluid and transparent beauty of glass and the reactions of metallic oxides. He worked in a traditional glass blowing technique at a temperature often exceeding 1,000 degrees. Thuret exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1928 and 1932 and obtained his first plate of the Company of Encouragement to Art. He was invited to exhibit in the United States in 1929-1930. Andre Thuret received his Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1947.