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Armchair

Armchair

  • Place of origin:

    Neuwied (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1835-ca. 1845 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Vetter, Johann Wilhelm (maker)
    Karl Friedrich Schinkel, born 1781 - died 1841 (possibly, designer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Oak, carved and coloured with dark stain

  • Museum number:

    W.2-1986

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

  • Image unavailable

This chair is one of a pair made in the workshop of the celebrated German cabinetmaker Johann Wilhelm Vetter of Neuwied. Both are marked with the stamp of his workshop. In the early 1840s Vetter made a number of important pieces of Gothic Revival furniture for Schloss Stolzenfels near Koblenz in western Germany, and these chairs are very similar in style. Stolzenfels was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who was the most accomplished designer in the Gothic style in Germany at the time. It is possible that he also designed these two chairs.

Physical description

The chair is raised on hexagonal, facetted legs and the back uprights, arms and arm supports are all of similar section. The arm supports are back-curving in an S-scroll and the arms are serpentine and down-curving. The seat is of oak, the outer faces of the side and front rails carved with recessed panels with arched ends. The back is of ogee arch form, the centre carved and pierced with a circular design of tracery

Place of Origin

Neuwied (made)

Date

ca. 1835-ca. 1845 (made)

Artist/maker

Vetter, Johann Wilhelm (maker)
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, born 1781 - died 1841 (possibly, designer)

Materials and Techniques

Oak, carved and coloured with dark stain

Marks and inscriptions

I W VETTER NEUWIED

Dimensions

Height: 127 cm, Width: 58.4 cm, Depth: 48.2 cm

Descriptive line

Of carved and stained oak, the backs pierced with a roundel of tracery

Labels and date

ARMCHAIR

W.2-1986

American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'

In the early 1840s Vetter supplied furniture in the Gothic revival style to Schloss Stolzenfels on the Rhine near Koblenz. Stolzenfels was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and it is possible that he also designed this chair. [1987-2006]
A Pair of Chairs
German 1835-45
These chairs were made in the workshop of hte celebrated cabinet maker Johann Wilhelm Vetter of Neuwied and bear his stamp. In the early 1840s Vetter made a number of important pieces of Gothic Revival Furniture for Schloss Stolzenfels near Koblenz and these chairs are very similar in style. Stolzenfels was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel who was the most accomplished designer in the Gothic style in Germany. It is possible that he also designed these two chairs.
Armchair
1835–45

This chair bears the stamp of the celebrated German cabinet maker Johann Wilhelm Vetter. In the early 1840s Vetter made a number of important pieces of Gothic Revival furniture for Schloss Stolzenfels near Koblenz. The castle was being remodelled in a fashionable Gothic style by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who may also have designed the chair. [57 words]

Germany, Nieuwied; by Johann Wilhelm Vetter
Oak, with dark stain

Museum no. W.2-1986 [2011]

Materials

Oak

Techniques

Carved; Cabinet making; Stained

Subjects depicted

Tracery

Categories

Furniture

Collection code

FWK

Qr_O59298
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