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Color Into Life COLOR INTO LIFE HITTORFF'S LAVES ÉMAILLÉES, 1834 -1841 MICHAEL KIENE AND DAVID VAN ZANTEN COLOGNE 2018 Table of contents Table of contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................... 10 Indications for readers .......................................................................................................... 11 Abbreviations ......................................................................................................................... 11 DAVID VAN ZANTEN Hittorff and lave émaillée ..................................................................... 13 Furnishing Paris ..................................................................................................................... 15 Entering Paris ......................................................................................................................... 17 Paris as a permanent exposition universelle ...................................................................... 18 Notes ....................................................................................................................................... 19 MICHAEL KIENE Painted with fire: Bee-eaters, butterflies and Eros on the table ............. 23 "Art industriel" ....................................................................................................................... 25 Inventors and invention of painted and glazed pumice slabs .......................................... 27 The decision-makers of enameled lava in Paris ................................................................ 28 Lave émaillée and politics ..................................................................................................... 32 Color in classical and modern art ....................................................................................... 33 National connotations .......................................................................................................... 33 Promotion and patronage patterns ..................................................................................... 36 Social life and music lovers .................................................................................................. 38 Modern sumptuousness, private splendor and the fine arts ............................................ 39 Notes ....................................................................................................................................... 42 INVENTORY The Hittorff estate ............................................................................................. 49 The watermarks ..................................................................................................................... 50 The paper ................................................................................................................................ 51 Altar frontals .......................................................................................................................... 51 Mosaics ................................................................................................................................... 60 Clocks ...................................................................................................................................... 64 Tabletops ................................................................................................................................. 68 Eros tables ........................................................................................................................... 71 The table of the famous women of France or "Gothic Table" ...................................... 76 Four Seasons Table ............................................................................................................ 84 Table with ornaments ........................................................................................................ 94 Tables of ancient and modern monuments .................................................................... 96 Table with birds and butterflies ....................................................................................... 98 Panels .................................................................................................................................... 102 Pompeian style ..................................................................................................................... 104 Gift to the manufactory in Sèvres ..................................................................................... 112 Heating devices .................................................................................................................... 114 Chimneys .............................................................................................................................. 114 Cockle stoves ........................................................................................................................ 126 Notes ..................................................................................................................................... 135 DOCUMENTS .................................................................................................................140 WORKS CITED ...............................................................................................................152 SUMMARIES ..................................................................................................................158 INDEX ...........................................................................................................................164 7 INVENTORY MICHAEL KIENE The Hittorff estate The Hittorff estate ittorff carefully kept a log file on his time to receive one of its most prestigious Hbusiness with enameled lava (herein donations ever, the LH. denoted hlf), a journal similar to those The account books passed from one side he set up for his construction sites. The of the building, which housed the library, hlf was in the collection of the collapsed to the other, which held the archive. Municipal Archive of Cologne (the A first complete revision took place when forthcoming “citizen’s archive”; herein the three hundred thousand books of cited Hittorff 1834-1841). division I of the municipal library reached Hittorff arranged his notes chronologically, the University. This is why the USB bears and added a register of persons mentioned the name „University and City Library”, a at the end. As usual with all his manifold separate City Library exists—no citizens volumes of correspondence, it received a needs a permit for access to the University business-style book-cover, not a lavishly Library. decorated leather binding like the books The LH was relocated to the main in the LH. However, the second half of the University Building, leaving the volume is empty, because Hittorff stepped manuscripts in the archive. This time, the out of the business in 1841. original arrangement of the books in the Anyway, a lot of his commissions is not LH was definitively dissolved, replacing even mentioned in the hlf. There is no the structure of Hittorff, for the sake of the consistent way to explain these loopholes. Prussian library classification. Some additional information on more lava Shortly before the end of WWII, happily commissions than mentioned in the hlf enough, the library was moved to is in log files for other buildings for which shelters outside the city. The university Hittorff ordered laves émaillée works. was bombed thereafter and the library The commissions of the Royal family facilities were destroyed. The new USB in Stuttgart as well as those of the building opened in 1968. The archive in early industrialists of Wurttemberg are turn removed in 1971 to another new, exclusively documented in the Municipal celebrated, state-of-the-art concrete Archive of Stuttgart in the letters of Louis building on Severinstrasse. Although the de Zanth (as he called himself in France— manuscripts including the letters were he was born as Karl Ludwig Wilhelm not destroyed in WWII, they fell with Zadig/Zadik, then Zanth, then von Zanth, the collapse of the archive building into a and lived 1796–1857). subway construction site in 2009. The legacy of Jacques-Ignace Hittorff Of the archive holdings, the security arrived in Cologne in 1898. Hittorff’s microfilms produced during the Cold library was set up in the new purpose- War are accessible. The Municipal built neo-Gothic building for the Historical Archive Cologne, one of the archive and the municipal library at the richest in Europe, is currently of limited Gereonskloster. This got ready just in accessibility. Selected restored items and 49 INVENTORY the digitized microfilms are on view in to the original arrangement in the home arrangement: Hittorff organized the hlf the new Digital or forthcoming „Citizen’s of the artist. A learned and bibliophile chronologically. Archive” and at its time presumably on artist like Hittorff used to compare the The chefs modèles in the USB are in a the internet. folders and his books continuously. portfolio with three folders. One of them Hittorff’s collection of letters and account The first entry of Hittorff in his journal on bears the inscription “laves emaillees“. manuscripts are unique sources for many enameled lava bears the date December At the upper right of the cover appears aspects of art and culture of France in the 18, 1833, the last February 9, 1841.
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