At the Ferdinand Poschinger Glashütte, the important Art Nouveau painter Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth (1879-1947) was one of the artists, along with Hans Christiansen and Julius Diez, who successfully introduced Art Nouveau forms into the production of art glass. Ferdinand von Poschinger, who took over his inheritance in 1881, was open to everything new. He ensured that his estate had a better infrastructure, was connected to the railroad network, and supplied the town of Buchenau with electricity throughout the area. Under his leadership, the Buchenau and Spiegelhütte glassworks took part in numerous international exhibitions - in 1893 at the World's Fair in Chicago and in 1900 at the World's Fair in Paris. Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth stayed in Buchenau regularly from 1900 to 1914, at least once a year, to create art glass.
Poschinger's collection for the Paris World's Fair, which was awarded a silver medal, consisted, among other objects, of fashionable glassware with combed around decoration in the style of Tiffany (cf. Höltl (ed.), Das Böhmische Glas, vol. V, Passau 1995, p. 18). A wonderful example of this is the tall vase in the form of an elongated flower capsule in a light blue ground tone (Cat. No. 300) with light purple and green combed threads and mother-of-pearl shimmer. Based on the elaborate signature, this example is most likely one of those vases made for the World Exhibition in Paris (cf. Höltl (ed.), Das Böhmische Glas, vol. V, Passau 1995, no. V. 14). |