MutualArt.com: A rare and important Emile Galle silver mounted vase circa 1900
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Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France.
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business · French glass artist and designer (1846–1904) · glass artist · cabinetmaker · ceramicist · draftsperson · entrepreneur · also Émile Gallé, Emile Gallé, Émile Galle, Emile Galle, Gallé, Emile Charles Martin Gallé
Born 4 May 1846 · Died 23 September 1904 · Q275085
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2021· 1 entry
2016· 2 entries
PBS: Émile Gallé Pitcher, ca. 1884
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Time Out: Émile Gallé – Nature & Symbol
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2015· 1 entry
PBS: Appraisal: Émile Gallé Vase, ca. 1900
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2004· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Émile Gallé, circa 1895
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2002· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Émile Gallé, circa 1900
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-09-23.
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1901· 2 entries
Gallé became the founder and first President of the École de Nancy, the organization of Nancy artists of the new style
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Career landmark: president (1901–1904).
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1898· 1 entry
At great risk for his business, one of the first to become actively involved in the defense of Alfred Dreyfus
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1893· 1 entry
That according to Saint Paul each flower and fruit has a particular symbolic meaning; the olive leaf is peace, wheat is charity and goodness; the grape is the symbol of the Eucharist; the fig is generosity; the Veronica
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1889· 1 entry
"it is necessary to have a pronounced bias in favour of models taken from flora and fauna, while giving them free expression
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1885· 2 entries
When he was looking for exotic woods to make sculpted bases for his vases
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Opened his first shop in Paris at 12 rue Richter, followed by other shops in Frankfurt-am-Maine and London
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1883· 1 entry
Built new and larger workshops for glass and faience manufacture also for making furniture
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1877· 1 entry
The elder Gallé turned the family business, the Maison Gallé-Reinemer, over to Émile
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1873· 1 entry
Took up residence in La Garenne ("the rabbit warren"), the three-story neoclassical house built by his father and surrounded by gardens
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1870· 1 entry
Then was demobilised after the disastrous French defeat in 1871 and the French loss to Germany of much of the province of Lorraine, including Meisenthal where he had done his apprenticeship
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1866· 1 entry
To prepare himself to inherit the family business, he went to work as an apprentice at the glass factory of Burgun and Schwerer in Meisenthal, and made a serious study of the chemistry of glass production
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1846· 1 entry
Born 1846-05-04.
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1844· 1 entry
And his father-in-law owned a factory in Nancy which manufactured mirrors
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