Minneapolis Institute of Art

Chamberstick

Designer: Richard Riemerschmid; Manufacturer: Vereinigte Werkstätte

Date

c. 1898

Medium

Brass

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Riemerschmid numbers among the most important German designers of the 20th century, the leading figure of the functionalist wing of the Munich Jugendstil. His candlestick, with its simple diagonal stem set at a 140-degree angle to the base, is remarkable for its modernist forswearing of embellishment, its emphatic assertion of pure line and its ingenious functional design. One curved arm props it upright, the opposite arm serves as a handle. Germany, Europe

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