Biedermeierglas

  • Title Beaker engraved with the Last Supper
  • Date Gablonz, Bohemia, c. 1835
  • Dimensions Height 12.6 cm
  • Provenance Engraving: Anton Simm
  • Literature Gustav E. Pazaurek, Die Gläser der Empire- und Biedermeierzeit, 1923, p. 83 ff Paul von Lichtenberg, Glasgravuren des Biedermeier, 2004, Graz, p. 293 ff
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Anton Simm 1799 – 1873

born in Gablonz in 1799 and died there in 1873. His father was a glass cutter. Anton Simm was one of the busist glass engravers of the Biedermeier Period. For some time, he was leading a big workshop and left a lot of paper models of his engravings so that these works can be attributed to him even without sigature. He had a particular liking of religious motifs like Last Supper, 10 Commendments, but also of mythological and allegorical themes.