Louis
Comfort Tiffany
The Art Nouveau
movement in the United States arrived with designer Louis Comfort Tiffany
and was especially influential on ornamental rather than spatial design,
particularly on Sullivan's decorative schemes and, for a time, those of
Frank Lloyd Wright. Lustred glass was first produced in the United
States by Louis Comfort Tiffany during the late 1800s for use as windowpanes.
Louis Comfort Tiffany's spectacular and highly individual Art Nouveau lamps,
favrile glass bases, and stained-glass windows have long been admired throughout
the world. September 1992 Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), whose
name is synonymous with brilliantly colored stained glass, with Art Nouveau
and with the Gilded Age, is one of the masters of American painting with
glass. Louis Comfort Tiffany changed the way people look at glass.
Louis Comfort Tiffany has long been credited with creating the lamps that
made his company's name. He began working in glass around 1875, and
formed his first business venture, an interior decorating firm called Louis
Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists, four years later.
Louis Comfort
Tiffany was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. He
had found a dramatic way to combine his love of color, nature and decoration.
He was a painter and designer of decorative-glass art objects in the art
nouveau style. Tiffany was an avid naturalist who relied upon nature as
a renewing source of inspiration. Louis Comfort Tiffany attended
the Eagleswood Military Academy in New Jersey before devoting himself to
the study of art. Louis Comfort Tiffany also patented a type of iridescent
glass he called Favrile, from the Old French word meaning homemade. The
introduction of opalescent glass revolutionized the thousand-year-old art
of stained glass. He was born the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder
of Tiffany & Co. Louis Comfort Tiffany was as skillful a businessman
as he was an artist. One of the most famous stained glass artists of the
United States and remembered not only for his windows but for decorative
glass objects, in particular so-called Tiffany lamps. By the time
of his death in 1933, Louis Comfort Tiffany was nearly forgotten.
Now he is world renowned as a great American painter, craftsman, philanthropist,
decorator, and designer, internationally recognized as one of the greatest
forces of the Art Nouveau style, who made significant contributions to
the art of glassmaking.
Among the
companies that he founded were L.C. Tiffany & Associated Artists, the
Tiffany Glass Company, Tiffany Studios.
Louis died
on January 17, 1933, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New
York, USA.
Meyda Tiffany
purchased many of the Tiffany Studio glass molds and have recreated beautiful
glass lamps. They also create many beautiful stained glass lamps inspired
by Louis Comfort Tiffany as well as many other great artists and architectures
of our times. |
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