Ena Rottenberg

Ena Rottenberg , actually Emma Helena Rottenberg (born November 9, 1893 in Oravița ( Banat , Kingdom of Hungary ), † June 4, 1952 in Vienna ) was a Hungarian-Austrian artisan , draftsman , ceramicist and member of the Wiener Werkstätte artists' association .

life and work

Trailer - design drawing (Wiener Werkstätte)
Ena Rottenberg ,
ink
10.1 cm x 6.4 cm cm
Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

Vase with half-nudes (Lobmeyr)
Ena Rottenberg ,
Black solder painting on glass
14.6 cm × 13 cm cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

Vase three female nudes (Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten)
Ena Rottenberg ,
Vase with onglaze painting
27.6 cm x 19.7 cm cm
Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

After completing school education, Ena Rottenberg began studying at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in 1916 . Her teachers included the sculptors Josef Breitner and Anton Hanak and the painter Anton von Kenner . After graduating, she worked as a freelance painter and made designs for ceramics, decors for cut glasses, jewelry and ivory paintings, which were sold through the Wiener Werkstätte .

In the 1920s, Ena Rottenberg worked with the Wiener Werkstätte as well as the Augarten porcelain manufactory , Friedrich Goldscheider , the Viennese tapestry manufactory and above all with the J. & L. Lobmeyr glass manufactory . Together with Carl Drobnik & Söhne, she developed bright, transparent enamel paints for Lobmeyr. She worked several times with the illustrator Lotte Fink on the design of the glass vessels with semi-transparent enamel for Lobmeyr. In addition to enamel decorations, she also created engravings for large glass vessels. In 1925 she was invited to present vases with black enamel decoration and the showpiece wave and wave , which was to form the focus of the glass section of the exhibition , at the Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modern in Paris . She received a gold medal in Paris for her designs.

In the mid-1920s she designed four church windows in reverse glass painting for the Vienna Monastery of the Franciscans . From 1923 to 1925 Ena Rottenberg was a student with Michael Powolny , who had a lasting impact on her work. In the mid-1920s she started working for the Augarten porcelain factory. Ena Rottenberg established herself alongside Ida Schwetz-Lehmann , Mathilde Jaksch, Dina Kuhn and Hertha Bucher as one of the most influential designers in the manufactory. For Augarten she designed eight figures and around 125 decors for vases, bowls and beakers.

She presented her most successful porcelain design in 1930: the simple Art Deco tea and coffee service No. 20 Ena , which is still produced today in various decors and variants. The exotic-looking design of the Orient service with various lid knobs in the form of "exotic heads", figures from countries in which tea and coffee is grown, was particularly successful . In 1931 she took part in the exhibition of the Artists' Association of Vienna Women's Art with her designs .

In the 1930s, she drew designs for various tapestries for the tapestry manufactory in Vienna. After the Second World War she worked again for Augarten and made decor designs for coffee services, vases and lidded boxes. Ena Rottenberg died on June 4, 1952 in Vienna.

Your designs and objects are shown in glass, porcelain and design museums at home and abroad. a. in the Museum of the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory, in the Passau Glass Museum , in the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , in the Grassi Museum and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

Works (selection)

• Vase The Prodigal Son , 1928
• Vessel wave - surge , 1925
• Coffee and tea service Ena , 1930
• Orient coffee and tea service , around 1930
• Figure bathers , 1929/30
• Figure smoking , 1930
• Pomona vase , 1930
• Diana vase , 1930
• Vase of Rosenkavalier and Krinoline Lady , 1930
• Vase women with a fan and a parasol , 1930
• Vase Women in the Garden , 1930
• Vase of Woman with a Basket of Fruit , 1930
• Vase Women at the Well , 1930
• Vase Christophorus , around 1930
• Vase with representations from the New Testament, 1930
• Plate woman seated under a tree , around 1930
• Plate of a kneeling girl with a fruit basket , around 1930
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, watercolors 1934
• Carpet design Orpheus allegory on music (mid-1930s)
• Vase falcon hunt , (around 1938)
• Vase deer hunting, (around 1938)
• Coffee service and lidded jars Colorful Chinese , 1948

literature

• Claudia Lehner Jobst: The big manufacturers: Augarten Vienna: Golden Twenties - Swinging Fifties . Wilhelm Siemen (Ed.): Writings and catalogs of the Porzellanikons, Volume 122, Hohenberg u. Selb, 2017, 140 pp

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ilse Korotin: BiografiA: Lexicon of Austrian women . 1st edition. Böhlau, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2774 .
2. ↑ Werner J. Schweiger (ed.): Master works of the Wiener Werkstätte: art and craft . Brandstätter, Vienna 1990, p. 17 .
3. ^ Karl H. Bröhan, Dieter Högermann, Reto Niggl: Porcelain . In: Bröhan Museum (Ed.): Inventory catalogs of the Bröhan Museum . tape 5 , no. 2 . Berlin 1996, p. 405 .
4. ↑ Harald C. Rath, Peter Rath, Robert Schmidt: Lobmeyr 1823: bright glass and clear light . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98812-4 , p. 77 .
5. ↑ Harald C. Rath, Peter Rath, Robert Schmidt: Lobmeyr 1823: bright glass and clear light . Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98812-4 , p. 79 .
6. ↑ Ceramics Report 1885-1935 . Stuttgart 1988, p. 647 .

Web links

• Rottenberg, Ena . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 99, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023265-3 , p. 509.