Gustav Gurschner is one of the most important sculptors of Viennese Jugendstil. He was a member of the artists\u2019s association Vienna Secession and Hagenbund, contributing his distinctive designes to Austrian arts and crafts around 1900.
\nAmong Gurschner\u2019s artistically designed utilitarian objects we find also flowerpots. This medium-sized cachepot is decorated with medallions. They stand out slightly raised and offset from the wall, decorated in relief with stylized pelicans and lobsters. Four fluted metal bands divide the vessel vertically, decoratively concealing the soldered joints where the four identical parts of the cachepot had been put together.
\nBronze lends the vessel quite an archaic appearance, while the exotic animal motifs could well have been inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese woodblock prints en vogue at that time.
\nWith this bronze pot Gurschner proved once again to have found an answer to the much discussed question around 1900, of whether and how objects of applied art should be decorated.
\nThis vessel was part a very knowledgeable Viennese Jugendstil collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cachepot with pelicans and lobsters, design Gustav Gurschner, manufactured by K.K. Kunst-Erzgiesserei Wien, circa 1908, bronze patinated, signed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32008,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1888],"product_tag":[1625],"class_list":["post-32022","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-gustav-gurschner-en","product_tag-gustav-gurschner-en","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/32022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=32022"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=32022"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=32022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}