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Biografie Louis Comfort Tiffany
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1848 |
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Born: in New York, NY
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1877 |
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Became a member of the Society of American Artists, New York, NY
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1878 |
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Founded his own glassmaking factory at Corona in Queens, NY
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1880 |
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Became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1893 |
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Designed the chapel for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL
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1902 |
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Became art director of his father's legendary company, Tiffany & Co., New York, NY
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1911 |
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Created a glass curtain for the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
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1919 |
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Established the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation for Art Students, Long Island, NY
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1933 |
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Died: in New York, NY
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| Ausgewählte Ausstellungen |
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2010
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Louis C. Tiffany: Master of Glass, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (solo)
20th Century Decorative Arts and Furnishings, Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, NJ
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2009
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Tiffany Girls. A New Light on Tiffany, Museum Singer Laren, Laren, The Netherlands; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (solo)
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature By Design, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility,Objects of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY (solo)
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2008
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Tiffany Favrile Glass and the Quest of Beauty, Lillian Nassau Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Tiffany by Design, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (solo)
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2007 - 2008
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Tiffany by Design, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (solo)
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2007
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Tiffany by Design, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Riverside, CA (solo)
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2006 - 2007
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Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
Tiffany Lamp Exhibition, Lillian Nassau Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Tiffany by Design, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL (solo)
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2006 - 2007
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Tiffany Glass Tiles and Mosaics, Lillian Nassau Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall—An Artist's Country Estate, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, NY (solo)
Tiffany by Design, The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, Stony Brook, NY (solo)
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2005 - 2006
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Tiffany by Design, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (solo)
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2005
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Tiffany by Design, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo)
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2004
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Tiffany by Design, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA (solo)
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2003 - 2004
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, The Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY (solo)
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2003
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL (solo)
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2002
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA; Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA (solo)
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2000 - 2001
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Tiffany: Behind the Glass, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (solo)
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2000
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo)
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1999
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (solo)
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1994
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The Lamps of Tiffany: Highlights from the Egon and Hildegard Neustadt Collection, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN; Lowe Art Museum at The University of Miami, Miami, FL (solo)
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1970
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19th-Century America, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, NY
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1960
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Art Nouveau exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1958
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Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (solo)
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1956
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The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA
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1895
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Maison de l'Art Nouveau, Paris, France (solo)
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
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| Literatur |
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2006
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Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006 (catalogue)
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2005
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Eidelberg, Martin, et al. The Lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany. London: Thames & Hudson, 2005
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2002
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McKean, Hugh F. The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer, 2002
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1993
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Zapata, Janet. The Jewelry and Enamels of Louis Comfort Tiffany. New York: Abrams, 1993
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