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  Hugo Elmquist Sweden Art Nouveau Butterfly vase c. 1904

  HUGO ELMQUIST  (1862-1930) Sweden

  Butterfly vase  c. 1904

  Patinated bronze with rich green brown patina, low relief butterfly and vines with two articulated handles.

  Marks:  Hugo Elmquist Firenze  (incised initials)

  Other examples illustrated:  Modernism:  Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England:  The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998), p. 85; Die Jugendstil-Sammlung, Heinz Spielmann, et. al., vol. 1, Künstler A-F (Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1979), p. 451,
  illus. 635.

  H: 9 1/2″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Price: $2,800

   

   

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  Gustav Gurschner, Secessionist / Byzantine Revival bronze vase c. 1905

  GUSTAV GURSCHNER (1873-1970) Austria

  Vase c. 1905

  Cast bronze ovoid shaped vase with decorative Celtic motif, lightly gilded, the body of the vase simulating leather with a rich brown patina

  Signed: GURSCHNER, M180 (stamped in the bronze)

  Related works illustrated: The Studio, Special Summer Number 1906: The Art Revival in Austria, ill. no. D6; Studio Yearbook (London, 1909), pp. 139-140; Vienna Turn of the Century: Art and Design, Fischer Fine Art, exhib. cat. (London 1979), p. 23, illus. 1; Bronzes, sculptors & Founders, H. Berman, (Atglen 1994 III) p. 781, cat. nos. 2893, 2894; Decorative Art 1880-1980, Dan Klein & Margaret Bishop (Oxford, England: Phaidon and Christie’s Limited, 1986) p. 84, illus. 1

  H: 7 1/4″ x D: 7″ x D: 4″

  Price: $14,500

  Gustav Gurschner was born in Tirol, Austria. He attended the Fachschule für Holzindustrie in Bozen from 1885-1888. After three years, his instructors encouraged him to attend the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts’ Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. After finishing his formal training, Gurschner pursued a career as a sculptor of monumental works. It was while he was in Paris in 1897, that he first turned his energies from the application of small-scale, sculptural works to the aesthetic design of household objects. Shortly thereafter, he returned to Vienna to join the Secessionists whose ideals he shared. By the turn-of-the-century, Gurschner was not only one of the better known artists working in Vienna but enjoyed a reputation that extended into other European countries as well.