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Convolute of 70 drawings, watercolors and gouaches with designs of the Austrian painter and architect Franz Staudigl. Staudigl is considered a headstrong, opinionated painter who objected to be identified with one particular style of art throughout his life. Being educated primarily at the "Die Graphische" and the Academy in Vienna, he was influenced by the old, in particular the Dutch masters. Travels to Holland, Bohemia, and Northern Germany are said to have had a distinctive effect on his work. The renown Galerie Heinemann in Munich, which was aryanized in 1938, showed 49 of his works in 1932 and in 1991 a memorial exhibition was staged in the Oberhausmuseum in Passau, the city he had moved to in 1914. With time Staudigl dedicated himself more and more to landscape painting. In the early 1910s Staudigl met Ernst Wahliss, the owner of the great porcelain business and manufacturer in Vienna, and subsequently received orders to create designs for porcelain and faience. In cooperation with the architects Karl Klaus and Charles Gallé he designed symmetric layouts and concepts influenced by the Wiener Werkstätte and participated in the Exhibition of Austrian Applied Arts at the Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna, introducing the "Serapis Line" of the porcelain manufacturer Ernst Wahliss. The forty two intricate color designs enclosed include thirteen designs created for the Serapis-Wahliss line by the porcelain manufacturer Ernst Wahliss whose son Gerhard Martin had acquired the company in 1907 after his father's death. The Serapis-Wahliss line was manufactured from white earthenware and decorated by hand with geometrically stylized natural forms. The designs in this collection are gouaches and watercolors, partly with relief gold. Of the 42 ornamental color designs four are signed "Staudigl," five stamped "Architekt u. Maler F. Staudigl, Wien, VIII. Bez. Albertgasse 1a," five with stenciled "FSTAUDIGL AM:R," twenty-three unsigned, one of them with a circular, blind-stamped trademark protection by the paper manufacturer Schoellershammer, two on black paper and three small design fragments. Twenty pencil drawings and sketches of nudes and movement studies, peasants, landscapes, including two charcoal drawings, two of them are self portraits of Staudigl, are included in this group. Six of these sheets with drawings on both sides. The collection contains a color drawing of a female weaver, two water colors, one crayon drawing on black paper, and one landscape in ink and charcoal. The collection includes an original photograph of eleven drafts by Karl Klaus, Vienna, for the "Serapis-Series" and an original oil painting on canvas by Franz Staudigl. Finally a sheet with pencil notes and geometrical drawings on verso. The material has the typical studio character including finished designs as well as drafts, partially completed designs, and is in very good condition. Some designs with remnants of removed mats, folds and ceasing, some tears and spotting but generally in very good to fine condition. Selected writings on Franz Staudigl: Vienna, The large amount of thought bestowed on the practical side of the teaching at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna is everywhere making itself felt. Throughout the Monarchy it is recognized as an axiom that to achieve good and lasting results art and craftsmanship must go hand in hand, and the feeling has urged the authorities to do their best in both branches of the training of the decorative artist. Of late much attention has been given in the domain of ceramics and Vienna bids fair to become as famous for her modern productions of porcelain and pottery as she was in the past in the days of the Imperial and Royal Porcelain Factory. Many new methods of manufacture have been tried with the result that some excellent work has been achieved. Of some of this, illustrations have already appeared in The Studio at different times. The latest development is the "Serapis" faience, of which some illustrations. Seller Inventory # 43793
Bibliographic Details
Title: Contributions to Ornamentation [WITH 70 ...
Publisher: NP, Vienna
Publication Date: 1900
Edition: Original artwork.
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