Beaker with view of the Karlskirche, Vienna
Anton Kothgasser
ca. 1820–30
Medium
Glass, enameled and gilt
Dimensions
Overall: 4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in. (11.7 × 8.9 cm)
Classification
Glass
Culture
Austrian, Vienna
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Munsey Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.185.274
Tags
ChurchesCarriages
About the Artist
Anton Kothgasser · 1769–1851
Anton Kothgasser, born on January 9, 1769, in Vienna, emerged as one of Austria's foremost porcelain and glass painters during the Biedermeier era. Orphaned early by his father Josef's death in 1775, he received initial artistic training from his relative Jakob Petter, a landscape painter at the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory. In 1781, at age twelve, Kothgasser enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts...