HILDA KRAUS SIGNED MODERNIST ENAMEL ON COPPER DISH OF TRIPLE STARBURST DATED \'63
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HILDA KRAUS SIGNED MODERNIST ENAMEL ON COPPER DISH OF TRIPLE STARBURST DATED \'63:
$195.00
HILDA KRAUS(1915-2014) ENAMEL ON COPPERIRIDESCENT BLUE FLORAL DISHSIGNED & DATED \'63This beautiful Modernistenamel on copper dish by American/Austrian Modernist artist Hilda Kraus, is decorated and glazed withiridescent, dancing colors of cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, purple, teal & viridian green with bluish/greenish white silver starburst design. This spectacular vintage enamel dish measures 9\" in diameter. It is in very good/excellent condition, with no chips, nicks or fleabites, with just normal crazing on the finish & slight wear on the bottom. It is hand signed in gold paint, Hilda Kraus \'63 on the reverse. Add this exquisite piece to your Modernist enamel collection today. Gorgeous and fresh.
Overall Condition: Very Kraus was widely respected for her beautifully designed jewelry as well as her handsome metalwork boxes with brilliantly colored enamel decoration, the Connecticut-based artist Hilda Kraus was among the leading figures in the postwar metals and enameling fields.
She received her B.A. from Hunter College in New York and subsequently studied sculpture with the prominent artist Chaim Gross. Her studies were followed by a three-year apprenticeship with a Danish silversmith living in New York. She later studied goldsmithing in Austria with Sepp Schmolzer and Josef Symon; mosaics in Ravenna; and enameling in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
Hilda Kraus lived for many years in Westport, Connecticut and taught at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, the Brookfield Craft Center, and the Stamford Museum. She was frequently awarded prizes in juried exhibitions and her work is in the collections of the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington.
Her work was featured in a 1946 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art calledModern Handmade Jewelry, one of the earliest and most influential jewelry exhibitions in the postwar period. She was also awarded a purchase prize in the seminal exhibitionEnamels ’70organized by the Craft Alliance of St. Louis. This exhibition was curated by the prominent Cleveland-based enamelist Charles Bartley Jeffery.
HILDA KRAUS SIGNED MODERNIST ENAMEL ON COPPER DISH OF TRIPLE STARBURST DATED \'63:
$195.00