978401

RIEMERSCHMID Mug Germany 1904 #978401

Currency:USD Category:Pottery & Glass / Pottery & China Start Price:35.00 USD Estimated At:0.00 USD
RIEMERSCHMID Mug Germany 1904 #978401
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr>
<td><em>
</em></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%">
Merkelbach stoneware mug designed by the important Jugendstil architect Richard Riemerschmid. Dark navy graduated circle and wave design over pale gray glaze. 2.5" ht. Excellent condition. <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 Werkstatten 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 elaborate interlacing plasterwork. For the Dresden Workshop, founded ...
<a href="http://www.goantiques.com/liveauction/complete_description.jsp?id=1427801" target=_new><b>View Complete Description</b></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reference
#: 190353</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Condition:See Description</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:See Description</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:RIEMERSCHMID Mug Germany 1904</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York</td></tr>
</table>