The firm of Johann Loetz Witwe-known universally as Loetz-was the most highly regarded art-glass manufacturer in Bohemia in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Like its near contemporary, the American firm Tiffany, Loetz created Jugendstil glass noted for its brilliance of design and rich color schemes. The firm's designers were influenced by their contact with the fin-de-siecle Viennese art scene, in particular the artistic circle around Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser. Loetz pieces ranged in style from iridescent colored glass to monochrome opal glass; all were distinguished by their superb craftsmanship.

This monograph features a representative selection of extraordinary works by Loetz in superb color illustrations. It includes a comprehensive scholarly appendix filled with more than three hundred decorative types developed by Loetz.An accompanying CD-ROM includes nearly five thousand cut-out paper patterns, providing an extensive overview of the diversity of the glass manufacturer"s production.

Renee Price

Loetz Re-Examined

Jan Mergl, Ernst Ploil, and Helmut Ricke

Preface

Helmut Ricke

The Loetz Gtassworks

Their Significance and Position in the Internationat Context

Jan Mergl and Dufia Panenkova

The History of the Firm, Its Production, and Sates

Pretiminary Remarks

Abbreviations and Symbots Used in This Votume

HISTORICISM (1880-1897)

A Focus on Techniques

THE PERIOD OF PHANOMEN                                

The Turn to Art Nouveau [1898-19001

The Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900

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Franz Hofstotter  

Production after 1900

Eduard Prohaska

Collaboration with Distributors and Artists

J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna

Glass for E. Bakalowits S6hne, Vienna

Josef Hoffmann

 Leopold Bauer

Koloman Moser

Robert Holubetz

Karl Kellermann

Moser School

Jutta Sika

Antoinette Krasnik

Arno Richter

Hubert Gessner

Marie Kirschner

Richard Teschner

Leopold Bauer

Marie Wilfert-Waltl

Otto Prutscher

FOCUS ON FORM AND DESIGN (1908-1918)

Adotf Beckert

The Wiener Werkstatte

The Osterreichischer Werkbund

Consignment List of Glassware

Made for the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne

Orders of the Wiener Werkstaitte from Loetz

Josef Hoffmann

Carl Witzmann

Milla Weltmann

Dagobert Peche

Arnold Nechansky

Michael Powolny

Hans Bolek

LOOKING BACK (1918-1940)

A Return to Otd Techniques 11918-1940l

Anonymous Designs

Michaet Powotny

The Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs

et Industriels Modernes, Paris, 1925

Marey Beckert-Schider

Otto Prutscher

Anonymous Designs

Catalogue of Decoration

Signatures and Marks

The Firm"s History

Artist Biographies

Glossary

How to Make an Iridescent Glass

Abbreviated References

Index