Viennese email
As Wiener email is called precious ornamental objects with enamel painting , which in Vienna in the second half of the 19th century gold and silversmiths during the epoch of historicism were manufactured. At that time Vienna was developing as the third important center of enamel art alongside Paris and Limoges . Stylistically, the artists made use of the Renaissance on the one hand - especially in ornamentation - which they tried to exaggerate, and on the other hand the formal language of Watteau and the French Rococo with its depiction of gallantry .
history
Around 1850, the up-and-coming new bourgeoisie began to be interested in the Renaissance and with it their skill in dealing with free enamel painting. A retrospective held in Limoges in 1866 , the European center of enamel art that had grown over the centuries, increased the demand for such objects. Three further exhibitions in France and Germany in the 1880s did the rest to usher in a veritable rebirth of enamel painting in the Renaissance style.
The ostentatious vessels created at that time are designed either in purple cameau or colored enamel with silver mountings , painted with biblical or mythological scenes and decorated with detailed ornamentation.
Hermann Böhm (or Boehm) was with Hermann Ratzersdorfer the leading Austrian artist of revivalist goldsmithing. He worked on models that were kept in the imperial collections in Vienna or the Green Vaults in Dresden or shown in luxury art publications, and used local talent in painted enamels and hard stone work to create new renaissance objects of “ Rothschild ” splendor for an international clientele create. The company was founded in 1866 and registered as Hermann, Hugo and Max Bohm (a trademark is only registered for Hermann) and twelve workers in the early 20th century. At the Vienna exhibition in 1873 they displayed a “tournament shield and weapons in ancient style”, various gallantries and “pieces of jewelry in Limoges enamel” and received an award for their services. In 1890 they advertised "works of art in gold, silver, enamel, rock crystal and lapis lazuli ", while in 1898 the company was identified as "enamel and pieces in antique style".
Most pieces of Viennese enamel art were exported, mainly as Viennese enamels to Great Britain and the United States .
bibliography
- Neuwirth, Waltraud: Lexicon of Viennese gold and silversmiths and their hallmarks 1867–1922 . Vienna 1976.
- Mundt, Barbara: Historicism . Munich 1981, pp. 318-321.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vienna enamel vase. Herman Boehm. End of the 19th century. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .