A GLASS AND BLACK PAINTED WOOD HANGING LAMP

DESIGNED BY GERRIT TH. RIETVELD IN 1922, EXECUTED BY G.A. VAN DE GROENEKAN IN 1975

Details

A GLASS AND BLACK PAINTED WOOD HANGING LAMP
Designed by Gerrit Th. Rietveld in 1922, executed by G.A. van de Groenekan in 1975
The square cover plate issuing six electrical wires each hanging in a glass tube with a black bobbin at the end, together securing three tube lights
The cover plate 40 x 40 cm.; the glass tubes ranging from 69 to 96 cm. long

Provenance

Bertus Mulder, Utrecht.

Literature

COMPERATIVE LITERATURE:
1. Page 87, cat. nr. 59 with a ca. 1922 photograph of a lost four-tube hanging lamp for A.M. Hartog. Page 88, cat. nr. 63. Page 94, cat. nr. 77 with a illustration of the Prijslijst from ca. 1923 which lists the hanging lamp with four tubes.
4. Page 84, a colour illustration of the stairwell in the Rietveld Schröderhuis with another example of the hanging lamp.
5. Page 190, with photographs of ca. 1922 and 1923 showing two different examples of the hanging lamp. Page 207, with a photograph of the director's room at Bauhaus in Weimar showing a hanging lamp by Walter Gropius which was perhaps inspired by Rietveld's hanging lamp.

Exhibited

Centraal Museum Utrecht, 50 jaar Rietveld Schröder Huis, 6 maart 1975

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Lot Essay

"The hanging lamp is designed by Rietveld around 1922 and during that time used in different variations. The lamp with the three tubes in three mutually perpendicular directions is the ultimate model which was also hung in the Rietveld Schröder House. I ordered the lamp here on offer from Gerard van de Groenekan for the exhibition I arranged on the Rietveld Schröder House after the restoration of the exterior of the house for the Centraal Museum in Utrecht in 1975."

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