Otto ROHLOFF (1863-1919)

Desk set

Ref. : 2863-9

Origine

Berlin, circa 1900-1905

H : 18 cm / 7.1 in.
L : 45 cm / 17.7 in.

Description

N° 58
Ornamented gilt-bronze Desk Set with accompanying case and encrusted with the following precious materials (shaped and finished as cabochons or bulbs, or table cut according to the stone-type): emerald, amazonite, lapis lazuli, amethyst, ox-eye, tiger’s eye, cat’s eye and cornelian.

Signature

Engraved signature « Otto Rohloff Berlin » on the underside of the inkwell.

Notes

Among Otto Rohloff’s employers were Prince Albrecht of Prussia, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, not to mention Emperor Wilhelm II, from whom he received many commissions.

This Desk set, within its dome-shaped ink lids and geometric lines, the box set cabochons of various precious and semiprecious stones adorning it, as well as the chiselled motifs which lend well to the style of the church Am Steinho or the work of Gustav Klimt, bears a strinking resemblance to the first works produced within the Viennese Secessionist Movement.

Biographie

Otto ROHLOFF (1863-1919), German sculptor and chiseler.

Having studied sculpture at the Kunstschule und Kunstgewerbeschule Berlin (School of Art and Applied Arts Berlin), Rohlhoff went on to become professor in modeling and chiseling at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums in Berlin (Teaching Institute of the Museum of Applied Arts Berlin).

Bibliographie

Revues :Champier, (V.), « Courrier de l'Etranger - Allemagne », dans Revue des Arts Décoratifs, t. XIV, Paris, 1883-1894, pp. 268-269
Kein, (R.), « Internationale Lithographien-Ausstellung im Kunstgewerbe-Museum zu Düsseldorf », dans Deutsche Kunst und Decoration, vol. II, n °8, Allemagne, 1898, p. 78, fig. p. 78

Catalogue d'Exposition :
Kaiserliches Gold und Silber, Schätze der Hohenzollern aus dem Schloss Huis Doorn, Berlin, 1985, pp. 100, 120-123.

Traduction en anglais par Nicolas Enright / English translation by Nicolas Enright