Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the 1910s.
Total height 40cm (plus shade). Hight of just the Owl 25cm.
Franz Bergman Sculptures
Bergman is celebrated for his great attention to detail and wonderful vibrant colours, Franz Xavier Bergman (1861-1936) is, arguably, the most famous of the Viennese cold-painted bronze artists, delighting in producing Oriental, Birds and bronze animal subjects.
Franz Xavier inherited the company and opened a new foundry in 1900. There he created numerous cold painted (so named because the numerous layers of polychrome paint, applied to the bronze, were not fired to fix them to the metal) figures. Many other bronzes were still based on designs by Franz Bergman, the elder.
Bronzes cast in the Bergman foundry are normally stamped with a capital ‘B’ placed in a twin handled vase. As an artist Bergman himself had a distinctive signature ‘Nam Greb’ which reads Bergman in reverse. It is said that he used this mark as a ‘nom de plume’ when the subjects of his work were subtly erotic and not to the taste of his family. The most famous of the Viennese ‘cold painted bronze’ artists Franz Bergman delighted in producing Orientalist and animal subjects. Recognised for great attention to detail and wonderful vibrant colours, works from the Bergman foundry are highly prized today by collectors worldwide.
Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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Austrian Cold Painted Bronze – Long Eared Owl Table Lamp, by Bergman. Circa 1910
