Edmond Etling

Interior view of the Béranger Gallery in Paris run by Etling

Edmond Laurent Etling (* before 1909, † around 1940 ) was a French art dealer , gallery owner and manufacturer of high-quality decorative objects made of bronze, ceramics and glass in the Art Deco style .

life and work

Etling ran the Galerie Béranger at 158 ​​Rue de Temple (other sources give 29 Rue de Paradis as the address) in Paris and the foundry Edmond Etling & Cie . His company La Societe Anonyme Edmond Etling , founded in Paris in 1909, commissioned sculptors and artists such as Georges Béal (vases and stylized plant cuttings ), Demétre Chiparus (statuettes), Claire Colinet , Armand Godard , Geneviève Granger (vases and boyish female nudes), Marcel Guillard , Maurice Guiraud-Rivière , Géza Hiecz (animals and birds), Fanny Rozet , Lucille Sévin (vases and statuettes of female nudes) and others with designs that he made by hand and offered for sale in his gallery. Also Aurore Onu , Marcel Bouraine , Pierre Le Faguays , Raymonde Guerbe or André Vincent Becquerel worked in casting their statuettes along with Etling.

Between 1920 and 1929 Etling had vases made by Joh. Loetz Witwe in Klostermühle in southern Bohemia . Other glass objects were made by a glassworks in Choisy-le-Roi , near Paris.

Etling's high phase was limited to the interwar period , as he - of Jewish descent - had to close his shop during the German occupation of France in World War II in 1940, was taken to a concentration camp and died there.

Etling is known for light blue opalescent objects such as plates and bowls, which were also produced in gray and satined glass. Most of the items bore the cast signature “ETLING FRANCE” followed by a model number. In the 1970s, the Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres reproduced some Etling designs, especially female nudes.

Exhibitions and honors

• Gold medal and diploma d'honneur at the Brussels International Exhibition , 1910
• Grand Prix at the Turin World Exhibition , 1911
• Grand Prix and Diplome d'honneur at the Paris Exhibition, 1913
• Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern , 1925
• World Exhibition in Paris , 1937

literature

• Giuseppe Cappa: Le génie verrier de l'Europe. Témoignages de l'historicisme à la modernité (1840-1998). Editions Mardaga, 1998. ISBN 2-87009-680-1 , pp. 251-254.
• Alberto Shayo : Statuettes art deco period. Antique Collectors Club Art Books, 2016. ISBN 1-85149-824-9 . P. 31.
• Victor Arwas : Art deco. Abrams, 1980. pp. 101-103.
• Rotunda , issues 36–39. Royal Ontario Museum, 2003. p. 47.

Web links

• Edmond, Etling - Biography. In: artdecoceramicglasslight.com .
• Glass - Etling. In: carters.com.au .
• Etling glass. In: justcollecting.com .
• Etling Paris. In: supremegallery.com .
• Vases Art Deco en Verre pressé moulé. In: vases-art-deco.com .