Ceramic bowl
As a way to expand mosaic work, Koloman Moser proposed to his students at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna that unconventional materials like majolica, glass, and copper could be embedded into cement ground. In turn, Forstner, who studied under Moser, would gain notoriety for his mixed-media mosaics. Forstner’s studio, focusing on mosaics, was particularly suited to create exuberant works that suited the Wiener Werkstätte’s new design program. This bowl is a monumental example of Forstner’s work in this mixed media of combining ceramic with mosaic. For the Wiener Werkstätte’s first residential commission, Stoclet Palace, Forstner executed the mosaics that were designed by Gustav Klimt.
Artwork Details
- Title: Ceramic bowl
- Designer: Leopold Forstner (Austrian, Bad Leonfelden 1878–1936 Stockerau)
- Manufacturer: Wiener Werkstätte
- Date: ca. 1905–11
- Medium: Glazed ceramic, mosaic
- Dimensions: 9 1/4 × 14 7/8 × 14 7/8 in., 8.9 lb. (23.5 × 37.8 × 37.8 cm, 4 kg)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.54.16
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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