Bauscher, Weiden, Germany / Match holder/ashtray / 1914

Bauscher, Weiden, Germany
Match holder/ashtray
1914
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Creator Name: Bauscher
Creator Nationality: European; Northern European; German
Creator Name-CRT: Bauscher, Weiden, Germany
Creator Name: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Designer
Creator Dates/Places: 1867 - 1956
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Frank Lloyd Wright
Title: Match holder/ashtray
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1914
Creation End Date: 1914
Creation Date: 1914
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Materials and Techniques: galzed procelain
Dimensions: H.3-1/2 x D.4-1/2 in.
Inscriptions: MARKS
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 98.276.5.1
Credit Line: The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota
Copyright: ? Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Rights: http://www.arsny.com
Context:

Midway Gardens was an elaborate, block-long outdoor complex designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1914. Modeled on German beer gardens, it had an interior court that served as a summer gathering place for dining, dancing, and concerts. Wright incorporated decoration into this dramatic structure through his innovative use of patterned concrete block on the exterior and by placing sculptures by Alfonso Iannelli and Richard Bock throughout.

The Institute?s match holder, platter, and beer stein were among the few objects to survive the destruction of the garden and most of its Wright-designed furnishings in 1929. This match holder and platter were made in Germany by the Bauscher factory. The same pattern was also produced by Shenango China of New Castle, Pennsylvania, probably because importing replacements was difficult after the First World War broke out.

The decoration on the ceramics?a single row of red squares aligned along the rim?recalls the geometric elements in the work of various progressive European architect-designers Wright saw on his visit to Europe in 1909?10. With the beer stein, Wright rendered a familiar German form in a progressive way by using a modernist typeface on the glass body.

AMICA ID: MIA_.98.276.5.1
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2002
Media Metadata Rights: ? The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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