Jugendstil Gerhardi & Co - Entwurf wohl Albin Müller ( 1871 - 1941 ) - Champagne cooler - Metal, production circa 1910

Art Nouveau Wine / Champagne Cooler
Manufacturer: Gerhardi & Co, Lüdenscheid, Germany

The company
was founded in 1796 by Richard Gerhardi
from 1879 the Lüdenscheid site was brought into operation.

Many artists of the Art Nouveau era
contributed their brilliant designs and had their objects manufactured at Gerhardi & Co
in masterful craftsmanship.

Notable representatives of the world-famous
Darmstadt Artists' Colony
designers and formgivers
are named here in succession who worked for Gerhardi & Co:
* Peter Behrens
* Josef Maria Olbrich
* Paul Haustein
* Albin Müller

The design, the language of form of the
Wine / Champagne cooler allow the assumption that the design is by Albin Müller

* Albin Müller (1871 - 1941)
Architect, educator, designer, creator
* Member of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe, Germany from 1899 - 1914
* One of the pioneering artists of the Art Nouveau era

* Art Nouveau Wine / Champagne Cooler
* Design probably by Albin Müller (1871 - 1941)
* Production ca. 1910
* Metal, heavy construction
* with ear handles
* Height ca. 23.5 cm
* two-sided relief-like, dynamic Art Nouveau lines