Chair
| Accession Nr.: | 61.331.1 |
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| Artist/Maker: |
Pankok, Bernhard (1872 - 1943) / designer Schmidt, Friedrich Otto (1829 - 1894) / manufacturer |
| Date of production: |
ca. 1900
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| Inscription: | nincs |
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| Materials: | leather; walnut wood |
| Techniques: | carved; upholstered |
| Dimensions: |
height: 92 cm
width: 43,5 cm
depth: 39 cm
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The chair stands on two straight legs at the front and two curved ones at the back. The seat rail is also curved, with a trapezoid seat. The splaying back support is joined with triple piercing and carved with a misshaped head at the top. The elongated, oval cushion in the middle is stitched down. A variant of the chair, made by Pánkok in his Munich workshop, can also be found in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt (Inv.No. 12979/b) the latter is published in Himmelheber 1973 p.247, ill. 1093. Further analogous piece is published by Dekorative Kunst Vol.6. 1900, p.269.
Literature
- Rostás Péter: Mágnások lakberendezője. A Friedrich Otto Schmidt lakberendezőház története (1858-1918). Geopen Kiadó, Budapest, 2010. - Nr. 476.
- Szerk.: Szilágyi András, Horányi Éva: Szecesszió. A 20. század hajnala. (Az európai iparművészet korszakai.). Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1996. - Nr. 7.2 (Vadászi Erzsébet)
- Kreisel Heinrich: Klassizismus- Historizmus- Jugendstil. Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels. München, 1973. - 1093. kép
