Lot 66
  • 66

Bruno Mauder

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Bruno Mauder
  • Vase
  • with manufacturer's mark
  • polychrome enamel and silver on blown glass

Provenance

De Vera Gallery, San Francisco

Literature

Karl H. Bröhan, Sammlung Bröhan: Kunsthandwerk-Glas, Holz, Keramik, Berlin, 1976, pp. 247-254 (for a discussion on Bruno Mauder and the Fachschule Zwiesel and illustrations of related examples of the model in the collection of the Bröhan Museum, Berlin)
Torsten Bröhan, Glaskunst der Moderne: Von Josef Hoffmann bis Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Munich, 1992, pp. 248-252
Torsten Bröhan and Martin Eidelberg, Glass of the Avant-Garde:  From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, Munich, 2001, p. 103-105 (for related examples of the model in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid)

Condition

Very good overall condition. Some minute nicks to the rim. The painted decoration has some minor wear and surface imperfections as seen in the catalogue illustration. The red decoration is more intense and orange-red in person and the darker color is more of a metallic hematite tone in person that reads as black in the catalogue illustration. The piece is much larger in person than it appears in the catalogue illustration.
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Catalogue Note

Bruno Mauder was the director of the glass school in Zwiesel from 1910 until his death in 1948.  He had trained as a traditional porcelain painter, but was deeply moved by modern art, which influenced the abstract and bold enameled design of the present lot, deriving from German Expressionism.