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RIEMERSCHMID Lidded Bowl Germany 1904 #978454

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RIEMERSCHMID Lidded Bowl Germany 1904 #978454
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Merkelbach stoneware bowl designed by the important Jugendstil architect designer Richard Riemerschmid. Dark navy graduated circle design over pale gray glaze. 3.75 inches ht. respectively. Excellent condition. Marks: Incised factory emblem and numbered 1730. <p> Richard RIEMERSCHMID (Munich 1868-1957 Munich) German designer, architect and painter. The son of a textile manufacturer, he studied painting at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Munich (1888-90); he painted primarily at the beginning and end of his career, and he was a member of the Munich Secession. In 1895 Riemerschmid designed his first furniture, in a neo-Gothic style, for his and his wife's flat on Hildegardstrasse in Munich. In 1897 he exhibited furniture and paintings at the seventh Internationale Kunstausstellung held at the Glaspalast in Munich. Immediately following the exhibition, the committee members of the decorative arts section, including Riemerschmid and Hermann Obrist, founded the Vereinigte Werkstotten fur Kunst im Handwerk. In 1898 Riemerschmid was commissioned to design a music room for the Munich piano manufacturer J. Mayer Co., which was subsequently exhibited at the Deutsche Kunstausstellung exhibition in Dresden in 1899. The armchair and side chair, with its diagonal bracing, designed for this room, are some of his most original and best-known designs. In 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris he exhibited another interior, the Room of an Art Lover, with a frieze and door surrounds of ...
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