Wolfgang Kreidl / Max Roesler Jugendstil Keramik "Darmstadt" charger c. 1930
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Wolfgang Kreidl / Max Roesler Jugendstil Keramik “Darmstadt” charger c. 1930
WOLFGANG KREIDL (1906-1972) Dresden, Germany
MAX ROESLER FEINSTEINGUTFABRIK A.G. Germany
“Darmstadt” charger c. 1930
Brown, orange and cream glazed earthenware with a triangle and circle airbrush design, on stand
Marks: Max Roesler Rodach (shield mark), 9, 2925, 6239 1 (under the glaze)
Model illustrated: Keramiken der Neuen Sammlung im Internationalen Keramik-Museum Weiden, Hans Wichmann, (Munich: Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst, 1990), cover image and p. 65; Design Contra Art Déco: 1927-1932 Jahrfünft der Wende, Hans Wichman (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 1993), p. 101.
For more information about Wolfgang Kreidel and other models with matching air brush design see: Max Roesler, Keramik zwischen Jugendstil und Art Deco, Rolf Peters (Darmstadt: Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt, 1998), p. 98-102.
Charles Catteau / Boch Freres Keramis Belgium Glazed pottery vase c. 1930
CHARLES CATTEAU (1880-1966)
BOCH FRERES KERAMIS La Louviere Belgium
Tulip vase c. 1930
Glazed earthenware
Marks: “Keramis” Made in Belgium , D. 2524 B, 945
H: 10 1/4″ x D: 6 1/2″
Charles Catteau could be regarded as one of the most versatile ceramic artists of his generation, especially for the style of Art Deco. Catteau advanced the forms, techniques and decoration of modern ceramics, creating an exceptionally original, new and decorative genre.
Hired as a ceramic decorator in Ecole Nationale de Sèvres from 1903 to 1904, he began producing designs that were rather traditional, based on the observation of nature, and showing the influence of Japonisme, characterized by pure lines and meticulous details. From 1904 to 1906, he worked in Nymphenburg Porzellan Manufaktur near Munich, a factory specializing in new hand painting procedures under a slip, as well as Art Nouveau.
In 1907 he finally moved to Louvière in Belgium where he was promoted to head of the decoration department at Boch Freres Keramis at the age of 27. This is where most of his exceptional talent came to the fore especially during the period between the two World Wars. Influenced by the great creative art movements of the time (Africanism, Japonisme, Cubism, Abstraction) and his observation of nature gave him inspiration for his designs, with the integration of plants, stylized animals and geometric motifs. The international avant-garde movements were also an influence leading to his use of purely abstract, geometric designs and intense colors. Charles Catteau was incredibly resourceful and explored various harmonies of form, techniques, designs, colors, shades, topics, variants and influences. In this way Catteau became a representative par excellence of Art Deco designs, giving it his personal touch. He was instrumental in introducing technical innovations during the 20’s and 30’s to aid mass production of ceramic products and expand availability of affordable products. During difficult times in Europe, he created vivid, colorful, original and uplifting ceramic wares.
Charles Cotteau motto was “Art for All” and he also taught decorative painting at the School of Industrial in Louvière. In 1925 he obtained international recognition in the exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris. which helped raise the profile of Boch Freres. He remained at the company until he retired to Nice in 1946 .
Josef Riedel / Bakalowits Soehne / Austrian Jugendstil Crystal carafe c. 1900
JOSEF RIEDEL GLASWERKS Dolni Polubny, Bohemia
BAKALOWITS SÖHNE Vienna
Carafe c. 1900
Clear crystal engraved with a peacock feather (gilding)and inset with an applied colored-glass peacock eye
For more information see: Das Böhmische Glas 1700-1950, Band IV Jugendstil in Böhmen, Alena Adlerová, c.s. (Passau: Passauer Glasmuseum, 1995) pp. 202 – 210.
Karl Berghof / Kayserzinn Extremely Rare German Jugendstil Art Nouveau Pewter Vase 1904
KARL BERGHOF Germany
J. P. KAYSER SOHN Krefeld, Germany
Vase 1904
Pewter squared vase with round flange top, open work details
Marks: Kayserzinn 4541 7 (in a raised oval)
Illustrated: Zinn des Jugendstils, Eckard Wagner (Cologne: Rheinland-Verlag, 1978), p. 63, cat. no. 148; J. P. Kayser Sohn Krefeld: Fabrik kunstgewerblicher Metallgegenstände, Musterbuch 1907 (Munich: Verlag Dry, 1982) p. 46.
***This is an extremely rare, other worldly Kayserzinn form.
Michael Powolny / Lötz Witwe Glaswerks Jugendstil Set of Three “Tango” Glass Vases c. 1920
PROF. MICHAEL POWOLNY (1871-1954) Austria
LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS Klostermuhle
Set of three “Tango” glass vases c. 1920
Blown tall yellow glass with applied black handles, blown orange glass with applied cobalt blue handles, blown red glass with applied black handle-form feet
Marks: Cecho. Slovakia (acid etched in an oval) (red vase)
Yellow and black vase H: 6 1/2” x Dia: 6″
Orange and cobalt blue vase H: 5 1/2” x Dia: 6″
Red and black vase H: 3 1/2” x Dia: 6″
For more information see: Lötz: Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil, (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989) ; Glass of the Avant-Garde, From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, The Torsten Bröhan Collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Torsten Bröhan, Martin Eidelberg (Munich, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001).
Other Powolny works: Jugendstil Art Nouveau: floral und functional forms, Siegfried Wichmann (New York / Boston: Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Co., 1984), p. 226; Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design exhibition catalogue (New York: Historical Design, Inc., 1996), p. 45; Modernism:Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998).
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