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LIVE24SEVEN // Property & Interiors


A BUY E R S GUIDE - JOS E F LOR ENZ L Josef Lorenzl –


Art Deco has been a long-standing passion of mine; from furniture to fine ceramics I find it a style that I constantly return to with an enduring love of this most daring and dynamic era in design.


Deco Delight


Of the many talented artists of the period, one of my particular passions is for the work of Josef Lorenzl; a master designer, his bronze statues and ceramic figures epitomise the era perfectly with sensual dancing ladies in dramatic poses. Like Preiss and Chiparus, the other great sculptors from this period, Lorenzl was inspired by the female form and the newfound freedom that women enjoyed, which he captured beautifully both in his bronze and ceramic designs.


Will Farmer is our antiques & collectors expert, he is well known for his resident work on the Antiques Roadshow, he has also written for the popular ‘Miller’s Antique Guide’. Those in the know will have also come across him at ‘Fieldings Auctioneers’. We are delighted that Will writes for Live 24-Seven, he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise.


Lorenzl was born in Austria in 1892 and was soon to become one of the most talented sculptors of the Art Deco period, working for a bronze foundry in Vienna where he produced a huge range of stunning bronze figures. The majority of his works in bronze and ivory were of singular slim female nudes with slender limbs in dancing poses, almost as if frozen in a moment of expressive freedom. Like his contemporaries, Lorenzl’s work was created using Chryselephantine, a Greek word which refers to the combination of various materials such as bronze, ivory, gold and silver. He signed his pieces in various ways, sometimes abbreviating his name to Lor or Enzl,but on some of the statuettes you will find an additional signature by Crejo. A talented painter who worked alongside Lorenzl, Crejo would paint decoration onto the statuettes such as flowers and abstract designs to the folds of the dancing girls’ dresses.


From his designs in bronze and ivory, Lorenzl went on to work for the Austrian ceramics company Goldscheider, creating a huge catalogue of stunning studies of the female form. Although each piece possesses great movement, the figures were pared down to simple, elegant lines, also many of his figures wore their hair in the boyish bob which was fashionable at the time, making these simplistic and stylish figurines the epitome of Art Deco design.


Lorenzl loved the female form together with the emergence of new dance styles and the bold changes in theatre sweeping the globe. This was enhanced for Lorenzl when he took a trip to Paris and visited the famous Folies Bergère and saw for the first time the exotic dancer Josephine Baker, who was on stage with her chorus girls. The group startled audiences with their extremely flamboyant costumes and Lorenzl was captivated by the glamour and


outlandishness of the dancers. On his return to Austria he executed a


large number of studies of those beautiful dancing girls wearing vibrant coloured costumes.


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