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Hans Christiansen, a member of the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony alongside fellow designer Peter Behrens, spent his early career focused on interiors; however, he also produced designs for select decorative objects—such as textiles, porcelains, tableware, and silver flatware—to outfit his interiors, including this Darmstadter Stil (Darmstadt Style) fish fork and its matching knife (2009.32.2.1). The exuberant curves of the prongs of the fork and blade of the knife, as well as the ribbons engraved into the silver, are characteristic of Christiansen’s style as well as the sinuous abstract decoration that characterized much of the work of the Darmstadt designers.
Adapted from
Samantha Robinson, Label text ( 2009.32.1-2), Conservation Galleries, 2014.
NOTES
TMS updates - Geo Xrefs for place of origin, manufactured in, and place of birth and death - JBA 10/16/2017
updated source and rewrote rule - JBA 10/1/17
I uploaded the "Modern Opulence in Vienna: The Wittgenstein Vitrine" label copy to TMS as a new Text Entry.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, Bibliography, and Published References in TMS.
I updated the constituent records for Hans Christiansen and H. Peter Bruckmann & Sons to include Nationality and birth/death or start/end dates.
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Until 2009: William P. Hood, Jr., Dothan, Alabama
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General Description
Hans Christiansen, a member of the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony alongside fellow designer Peter Behrens, spent his early career focused on interiors; however, he also produced designs for select decorative objects—such as textiles, porcelains, tableware, and silver flatware—to outfit his interiors, including this Darmstadter Stil (Darmstadt Style) fish fork and its matching knife (2009.32.2.1). The exuberant curves of the prongs of the fork and blade of the knife, as well as the ribbons engraved into the silver, are characteristic of Christiansen’s style as well as the sinuous abstract decoration that characterized much of the work of the Darmstadt designers.
Adapted from
Samantha Robinson, Label text ( 2009.32.1-2), Conservation Galleries, 2014.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
TMS updates - Geo Xrefs for place of origin, manufactured in, and place of birth and death - JBA 10/16/2017
updated source and rewrote rule - JBA 10/1/17
I uploaded the "Modern Opulence in Vienna: The Wittgenstein Vitrine" label copy to TMS as a new Text Entry.
I updated Provenance, Exhibition History, Bibliography, and Published References in TMS.
I updated the constituent records for Hans Christiansen and H. Peter Bruckmann & Sons to include Nationality and birth/death or start/end dates.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 2009: William P. Hood, Jr., Dothan, Alabama
From 2009: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
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