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Vase, c. 1900

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Glass
33×20×20 cm

Artists

  • Koloman Moser

    (Vienna 1868–1918 Vienna)

  • Meyr’s Neffe on behalf of E. Bakalowits Söhne
Currently on display at OG4
From 1898, Koloman Moser (1868–1918) started to explore not only ceramics but also glass as a material for his works. A teacher at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, he established close ties with external manufacturers and producers to execute his own designs as well as those of his students. The chandelier manufactory E. Bakalowits Söhne, with whom Moser would collaborate closely, had their designs executed by the major glass foundries in Bohemia at the time, including Johann Lötz Witwe and Meyr’s Neffe. While Moser’s early glass receptacles, created between 1898 and 1900, frequently boast flowing, rounded and at times even vegetal forms, and often feature a highly colorful decor, he worked with rather simple basic forms from 1901. The reduced design vocabulary went hand in hand with a more muted coloring, the polychromatism giving way to distinct color accents.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Design: Koloman Moser
  • Execution: Meyr’s Neffe on behalf of E. Bakalowits Söhne
Title
Vase
Date
c. 1900
Category
Arts and crafts
Material​/technique
Glass
Dimensions
33×20×20 cm
Credit line of the permanent loan
Ernst Ploil, Vienna
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
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