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Small vase soliflore double glass paste, decorated with flowers and foliage of thistles, signed Richard *, Art Nouveau early twentieth century.
This vase is in good condition. Signed on the side.
A note: some slight scratches and wear of time, see photos.
is a musician, painter and master glassmaker French, his real name René Billa. He signs his works RICHARD, he took this pseudo in tribute to Wagner. A musician and trained pianist, he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1895. Encouraged by Rita Strohl, Richard Burgsthal embarked on painting and translated the visions inspired by music into large, colorful watercolors. The meeting with Gustave Fayet in 1910 at the gallery Barbazanges in Paris where he exhibited his works will be decisive. The rich merchant, patron and collector, hired him to decorate the abbey of Fontfroide in Narbonne and, from 1912, to make stained glass. Burgsthal thus made decorations in 1912. From 1912, with Gustave Fayet acquiring a sandpit and the Sablons glassworks in the Chevreuse valley, Richard Burgsthal moved to Bièvres. He develops his own oven and his own manufacturing techniques. He multiplies the tests in the glassware of Sablons until he discovered the blues of Chartres in April 1913, the ruby ??reds in July. A Parisian publisher Edmond Etling will execute the Richard vases between 1920 and 1929 at Johann LOETZ WITWE in South Bohemia in Klostermühle. After 1925, Richard Burgsthal will continue to create modern stained glass windows but will also restore old stained glass windows (Albi cathedral, Carcassonne cathedrals, Narbonne, Saint Bertrand de Comminges ...).
