Loetz vase Josef Hoffmann etched decoration ca. 1912
Vase with etched decoration, form and decor Josef Hoffmann, Johann Loetz-Witwe, 1912, signed, decor for Werkbund-exhibition Cologne 1914
cut signature on the bottom “Prof. Hoffmann”, signed on the side with “Loetz” Bib.: Illustration in E. Ploil, H. Ricke et al. (ed.), “Loetz – Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Werkmonographie,” vol. 1, Prestel Verlag, Munich 1989, no. 328, p. 272; E. Ploil, H. Ricke e.a. (ed.), „Loetz – Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940“, vol. II, Musterschnitte, Prestel, Munich 1989, paper pattern series II no. 8126, p. 221;
Description
For their winter exhibition in 1911, the Museum of Art and Industry commissioned several designs from Josef Hoffmann. Our vase’s reduced depiction of bellflowers with foliage, together with a strictly geometric pattern, precisely reflect his form language. The production of this piece was a technical challenge. The colorless glass body of the vase was first underglazed “Neurot”, then overlaid in dark brown. In many steps, the brown overlay was then etched with acid, a process in which it is particularly difficult to obtain straight lines and geometric patterns.
The color combination and the signature “Prof. Hoffmann” make our vase a very outstanding object of this creative period and an important contemporary testimony of the time before the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in 1914.
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