Marie Kirschner Loetz Vase
Here's a wonderful Marie
Kirschner designed Loetz vase, Candia Silberiris finish, light green with a
mixture of light blue finish.
Marie produced 277 unique
patterns for her own personal sales. Marie funded these designs,
by in return designing glass for the Loetz factory's normal production,
and some of the glass pieces from her own series were also adopted by
the factory for its normal production range. These pieces do not
carry the artist's signature as the Loetz factory didn't have the
rights to use her MK monogram.
Her designs were mainly
influenced by ancient ceramics, Eastern Asian forms and Central
European utilitarian shapes. Her goal was to achieve the greatest
possible aesthetic unity between the glass vase and the flowers
intended for it.
Typical features of her
glassware are the simple geometric and stereometric forms, such as
triangles, ellipses, circles, spheres, pyramids, rectangles, rhombuses,
squares, and cylinders used in various designs.
To help make the vessel
profiles less severe, she used a great variety of bizarrely shaped
handles for many of her designs, giving some of the vessels a
functionalist appearance.
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