During his successful career as an architect and designer, Peter Behrens designed buildings, furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and other objects. He was instrumental in the creation of the Munich Secession and the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk. In 1899, at the request of Grand-Duke Hesse, he helped create an artists’ colony in Darmstadt, Germany. Later, Behrens was artistic director for AEG, the largest electrical company in Berlin, and was one of the leading industrial designers in Germany, creating objects for everyday use. This chair is identical to six chairs that were part of an exhibition recreating a dining room at the A. Wertheim department store in Berlin in 1902.
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
A similar piece was displayed at the Exhibition of Dining Room, A. Wertheim Department Store, Berlin, 1902;
Mackintosh to Mollino: fifty years of Chair Design, Barry Friedman Ltd, NY, Nov. 13, 1984 - Feb. 13, 1985
Mackintosh to Mollino: fifty years of Chair Design, Barry Friedman Ltd, NY, Nov. 13, 1984 - Feb. 13, 1985
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, 1903, vol. 263, pp. 291-293;
Stephan Madsen, Sources of Art Nouveau, NY, Da Capo, 1975, p. 425,;
Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst, vol. 4, exh cat., Darmstadt, 1976, p. 33;
Peter Behrens und Nurnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg, 1980, p. 57;
Frank Russell, Chair Design, Rizzoli, NY, 1980, p. 60;
Peter Behrens von Fritz Hoeber, Munich, 1913, p. 21;
Innendekoration, 1903, p. 6;
Wendy Kaplan, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for The Modern World, NY, 2004, pp. 82-83;
Noel Riley, ed., The Elements of Design, Free Press, NY, 2003,p. 308, fig. 2;
Fiona & Keith Baker, 20th Century Furniture, Carlton Books, London, 2000, p. 64;
Museum Kunsterklonie Darmstadt, Katalog, pp. 11-12, no. 8;
Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900., Detroit Institute of Arts, , 1993, p. 63;
Wendy Kaplan, Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, The Wolfsonian, 1995, pp. 63-64, fig. 2.16, cat. 77;
Additional citations (see Curatorial File)
Stephan Madsen, Sources of Art Nouveau, NY, Da Capo, 1975, p. 425,;
Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst, vol. 4, exh cat., Darmstadt, 1976, p. 33;
Peter Behrens und Nurnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg, 1980, p. 57;
Frank Russell, Chair Design, Rizzoli, NY, 1980, p. 60;
Peter Behrens von Fritz Hoeber, Munich, 1913, p. 21;
Innendekoration, 1903, p. 6;
Wendy Kaplan, The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe & America: Design for The Modern World, NY, 2004, pp. 82-83;
Noel Riley, ed., The Elements of Design, Free Press, NY, 2003,p. 308, fig. 2;
Fiona & Keith Baker, 20th Century Furniture, Carlton Books, London, 2000, p. 64;
Museum Kunsterklonie Darmstadt, Katalog, pp. 11-12, no. 8;
Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900., Detroit Institute of Arts, , 1993, p. 63;
Wendy Kaplan, Designing Modernity: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion, The Wolfsonian, 1995, pp. 63-64, fig. 2.16, cat. 77;
Additional citations (see Curatorial File)
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