Views of Vienna
Medium
Glass, enameled; wood, steel, mother-of-pearl
Dimensions
Height: 15 3/8 in. (39.1 cm)
Classification
Glass
Culture
Austrian, Vienna
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1982
Accession Number
1982.97.3
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant streets of early 19th-century Vienna *Views of Vienna*, a ca. 1820 crafted by Anton Kothgasser Balthasar Wigand This exquisite object, standing 15 3/8 inches tall, features delicately enameled glass panels bustling cityscapes, human figures, buildings, and lively streets. Housed in a wooden frame accented with steel fittings and shimmering mother-of-pearllays, it exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Austrian decorative arts from the Biedermeier era—a time of bourgeois elegance and nostalgia following the Napoleonic Wars. Kothgasser, a master glass painter, employed e...
About the Artist
Anton Kothgasser|Balthasar Wigand · 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...