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EMILE GALLE’ :
Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist who worked in glass, and is
considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement.
His artistic formation began run with the father Charles, glassmaker and potter, in the factory of Saint-Clément.
Around eighteen years it goes in Germany to study mineralogy and botany, where soon it is aroused passion and itself is
specialised in the blown glass. It grips friendship with Victor Prouvé (1858-1943), son of one of the collaborators of his
father, with whom it learns the secrets of the working from the glass and from his decoration.
At the end of the free-Prussian war, Emile decides to go to London for certain period. He travels then in Switzerland
and Italy visiting the museums and remains admired by the medieval glassworks.
In 1873, Émile Gallé returns to Nancy with the idea of assuming the direction of the enterprise of family and of being
able to realise artistic works in glass representing shapes of the nature, be floral which animals. In this period he became
the most important representative of the school of Nancy and the apristrada of the new art of the glass, inserted into the
current of the modern style.
In 1878, it assumes the direction of the enterprise of family who transforms in an artistic glassworks and between 1880
and 1889, realises numerous objects and vases in glass and ceramics, marked also at one certain oriental influence.
His works were characterised for the delicate vitreous dough in the colours and in the shadings. It realised also cabinet-
making works.
Examples: from 1874 until 1884 it produces vases in transparent glasses
INSPIRATION: Arab and Persian enamels / oxide of cobalt / stained oxides (iron, manganese, copper, chromium)
the new techniques of working and production are presented during the universal exhibitions (PARIS 1878)
Many of Gallé works and vases are kept at the Musée de l’École de Nancy.