Stephan Dakon

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Stephan Dakon (born November 14, 1904 in Vienna ; † February 27, 1997 ibid) was an Austrian sculptor and ceramist of Art Deco .

Life

Stephan Dakon attended a sculpture school and did an apprenticeship at the Kunstzgießerei Vienna and worked from 1924 through the ceramist Josef Lorenzl at the Vienna manufactory of Friedrich Goldscheider , for which he created numerous models in the Art Deco style. Between 1925 and the mid-1950s, he developed into one of the most important and creative designers for Goldscheider. His specialty was the figurative representation of dancers and actresses a. a. Dolly Sisters , Rita Zabekov , Lilian Harvey , Louise Brooks and the shaping of female wall masks as well as depictions of children. Dakon also provided designs for the Viennese ceramic company Keramos and the German manufacturers Goebel / Oeslau and porcelain factory Hertwig & Co. / Katzhütte.

Stephan Dakon's ceramics are still traded at international auctions. Works by Dakon (ceramics and bronzes) are in numerous private collections and in the Wien Museum .

literature

  • Robert E. Dechant, Filipp Goldscheider: Goldscheider. Company history and catalog raisonné. Historicism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, 1950s. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-89790-216-9 .
  • Uta M. Matschiner: Viennese ceramic art and porcelain manufacture Keramos. Self-published, St. Valentin 2010, ISBN 978-3-200-01817-4 .
  • Uta M. Matschiner: Naked - Aesthetics of Nudity in the 50s. Self-published, St. Valentin 2006
  • Gerald Koenecke: Goldscheider - West Germany. Figures and wall masks 1953–60. Edition Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 978-3-89744-122-4 .
  • Horst Makus: 1950s ceramics. The everyday life of modernity. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-925369-69-8 .
  • Bryan Catley: Art Deco and other Figures. Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judith Miller : Miller's Art Deco. Living with the Art Deco Style. Hachette UK, 2016. ISBN 1-78472-278-2 , p. 86.
  2. ↑ Brief bio about Stephan Dakon on nostalgiecorner.at
  3. ↑ Horst Makus: 50s wall masks: Beauty and exoticism (Germany and Austria ), Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, 2000 ISBN 978-3-89790-153-7 , p. 186
  4. ^ Figure Viennese waltz on auctions-fischer.de
  5. ↑ Stefan Dakon (Austrian, 1904 - 1992) In: artnet
  6. ^ Wien Museum : Catalog "With skin and hair". Metro Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9930-0322-7 , p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Dakon, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and ceramist of Art Deco
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1997
Place of death Vienna