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Engravers and Artists linked to Steinschönau

The main engravers and artists who worked in (or were from) Steinschönau are

Karl Pfohl
He worked in Hayda (Novy Bor), then in Wiesbaden and finally in his brother’s workshops in Steinschönau. He was also twice in Paris (1858-1864 and 1866-1872). He engraved hunting scenes and large compositions with historical and mithological themes after Rubens, Guido Reni, Murillo. His style continued in the work of numerous North Bohemian engravers.

Karl Pietsch, Peter Eisert, Franz Ullmann
They executed in Steinschönau the cutting and engraving of crystal on behalf of the Lobmeyr House (Vienna and Steinschönau).

Karl Massanetz (Steinschönau, 1890/?, 1918)
He trained at the Steinschönau School and studied at the Vienna School of Decorative Arts (1908-1912). He opened his own studio in 1912 at Steinschönau. His surfaces were entirely covered with subjects executed by feather pen (tiny spirals, scales or motifs composed in lambrequins) and his forms were very distinctive.

K. Horn
He worked as engraver between 1945 and 1950 for the J.&L. Lobmeyr House at Steinschönau (Kamenický Senov).

Josef Eiselt (Steinschönau, 1896/Hadamar -Western Germany-, 1975)
He trained at the Specialised School of Glass-making at Steinschönau (1910-1914), worked between 1914 and 1917 as designer in several local glassworks, directed the Family Painting Studio at Steinschönau (1917 and 1945) and taught painting on glass at the Nový Bor School (1925-1945). After the second world war, he taught at the Specialised School of Glassmaking at Hadamar (Western Germany).
Eiselt was one of the initiators of Art Deco in North Bohemia. His work smoothly developed its ornamental elements and chromatism.


 

(Source: "Bohemian Glass" by Sylvia Petrova and Jean-Luc Olivié; Flammarion Publishing, Paris)