Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany ( born February 18, 1848 in New York; † January 17, 1933 ) was an American painter and glass artist. He is considered one of the most important American representatives of Art Nouveau.

Apprenticeship

At 14, he was enrolled in the Eaglewood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, NJ, where he led the foundations of his artistic career, acquired in the next 3 years because the landscape painter George Inness lived in Eaglewood from 1863-67. That he wanted to study painting manifested itself when he exhibited his paintings for 1866 1867 of a journey that had led him through England, Ireland, France, Italy and Sicily in the National Academy of Design. On his second trip to Europe in 1868 he visited the studio of Léon Adolphe Auguste Belly, who painted oriental landscapes. Tiffany then traveled in the spring of 1870 with Samuel Colman to Egypt and North Africa, where he visited Tunisia and Morocco. After his return he was given the artistic recognition by being made ​​a member of the National Academy of Design.

The success

Tiffany was particularly successful with his jewelry creations, as well as the production of iridescent glass. 1870 to have been in Egypt inspired by glasses from the tombs of the Pharaohs to his famous chandelier decor Tiffany.

In 1879, Tiffany in New York, " Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company ," a furniture store, for which he worked as a painter, craftsman and glass artist. Among other things, Tiffany renovated some rooms of the White House. The process of "Tiffany Favrile Glasses" was patented in 1894.

With its playful floral motifs include Tiffany glass creations of the most beautiful Art Nouveau glass. In addition, Tiffany also made ​​of flat glass ( windows and mosaics ) ago, for example, for the Tiffany Chapel in the Cathedral of New York. Were very nice to see tiffany lamps, of which screens mostly consist of pieces of colored glass that were previously set in copper foil and then soldered together. This technique of joining pieces of glass ( Tiffany glass art technique) made ​​Tiffany glass creations and his world famous.

In 1902, also Tiffany & Co., the New York jeweler's shop of his father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, over in his possession.

His daughter Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham moved first to Vienna to make treat her son with Anna Freud, and then went with the Freud family to London, as they shared a particularly close friendship with Anna Freud.

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Identification

For identification of the glasses are the inscriptions " Louis C. Tiffany Favrile ", " TGC " ( Tiffany Glass Company ) or " Louis C. Tiffany " serial number. The letters A-N in front of the serial number indicates that the object in the time from 1896 to 1900, the letters P -Z that he was born 1901-1905. Are the letters A -M after the serial number, then come the objects from the years 1906-1912, with the letters P -Z from 1913 to 1920. Objects marked with the letter O are special.