Gong

ca. 1922

Not on view

This gong typifies the expressionistic style of a group of designers known as the Amsterdam School, whose work evolved as a reaction against the rationalism that had dominated Dutch design in the 1910s. The Amsterdam School drew inspiration from a wide range of sources: European Art Nouveau and Jugendstil design, art from the Dutch colonies in Indonesia, and traditional Dutch craftsmanship. For this gong with ornamentation suggesting sea creatures, Regenspurg looked particularly to the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch silversmiths Paulus and Adam van Vianen, which is characterized by the use of swirling, molten-looking forms.

Artwork Details

Overview

Provenance

Exhibition History

Title: Gong
Artist: Attributed to Piet Regenspurg (Dutch, Enschede 1894–1966 Enschede)
Date: ca. 1922
Medium: Copper, oak, turquoise
Dimensions: 42 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (108.6 × 54 × 17.1 cm)
Classifications: Furniture, Musical instruments
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Twentieth Century Decorative Arts Gifts and Edgar Kaufmann Jr. Gift, 1983
Object Number: 1983.62.1
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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