French Nancy Art Glass Pottery Furniture / Scarce Illustrated Book (German Text)

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NANCY 1900: JUGENDSTIL IN LOTHRINGEN: ZWISCHEN HISTORISMUS UND ART DECO: AUSSTELLUNG IM MUNCHNER STADTMUSEUM VOM 28. AUGUST BIS 23. NOVEMBER 1980
Bearbeitet von J.A. Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth und Helga Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth, geb. Hofmann, Verlan Philipp von Zabern, Mainz und Murnau, 1980.
Please note that this comprehensive pictorial text is written in German.
Beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white, this fascinating book pictures and describes hundreds of primarily French art nouveau and art deco examples of art glass, pottery, and furniture items.  Makers include Galle, Muller, Daum Nancy, Legras, Schneider, Richard, Gruber, and many other makers. The emphasis is placed on Emile Galle's work (especially his art glass) and his influence at the school.
Where pictures are worth a thousand words, this book is fascinating in all respects with its many examples of captioned photographs.  642 items are identified of which 101 are photographed in color and 301 in black-and-white.  There is also a section on marks.
The book covers nine essays
Written in German
: Galle and the Art Nouveau Style in Lorraine: Historical Aspects and Motivations; Galle: the Person and the Complete Works of the Artist;  Galle Ceramics;  The Iconography of the Genre Galle;  Galle and the Poetry of Romanticism and Symbolism;  Luxury and Mass Production: Critical Aspects of Galle Glasses 1900 to Today;  "I and the Rod-Vases";  Galle and the School at Nancy;  Information on the School at Nancy;  Concludes with: Exhibition List 1855-1925, Abbreviations, Selected Literature Cited, Catalogue
8.5” x 9.2” color-imprinted hardback in very good condition.  454 pages.
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