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Table lamp, Walter von Nessen, 1935, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

metal lamp with six round discs at top The complex profile of this lamp is reminiscent of an engine piston or a modern-day outdoor heat lamp. Before coming to the United States in 1923, Walter von Nessen trained as an architect and designer in Berlin, Germany. There machines and mechanized production were seen as the basis for modern design, and those ideas are reflected in this lamp. He was instrumental in introducing these concepts to the United States. Size: 20 x 8 in. (50.8 x 20.32 cm) Medium: Aluminum, Bakelite, glass

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Table Lamp, Walter Von Nessen, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Walter von Nessen initially received acclaim for his lighting, especially the lamps he designed for Eliel Saarinen’s Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Von Nessen became a great champion of the use of metal as an appropriate medium to capture the look and spirit of the modern age. Here the lamp’s sleek lines convey standardized, streamlined manufacturing, and its exposed hardware is characteristic of industrial fabrication. At the same time, the artist employed a silver finish and added a vertical strip of ebony along the shaft, giving the lamp a sumptuous, jewel-like quality. Meant to accompany a series of occasional tables that he created around 1930, Von Nessen’s Table Lamp beautifully illustrates America’s shift to a modern visual idiom during the 1930s. Through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff Size: 52.1 × 35.6 × 48.3 cm (20.5 × 14 × 19 in.) Medium: Silver plate, glass, and ebony

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/202825/

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Table Lamp, Walter Von Nessen, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Walter von Nessen initially received acclaim for his lighting, especially the lamps he designed for Eliel Saarinen’s Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Von Nessen became a great champion of the use of metal as an appropriate medium to capture the look and spirit of the modern age. Here the lamp’s sleek lines convey standardized, streamlined manufacturing, and its exposed hardware is characteristic of industrial fabrication. At the same time, the artist employed a silver finish and added a vertical strip of ebony along the shaft, giving the lamp a sumptuous, jewel-like quality. Meant to accompany a series of occasional tables that he created around 1930, Von Nessen’s Table Lamp beautifully illustrates America’s shift to a modern visual idiom during the 1930s. Through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff Size: 52.1 × 35.6 × 48.3 cm (20.5 × 14 × 19 in.) Medium: Silver plate, glass, and ebony

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/202825/

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