An authentic and marked Franz Bergman cold painted bronze of a hare. \u00a0In general good condition commensurate with its age.<\/p>\n
Franz\u00a0Bergman senior \u00a0(1838 \u2013 1894) was born in Gablonz, Northern Bohemia, where he worked as a metalwork chaser and finisher. In 1860 he came to Vienna and founded a small bronze factory. At the turn of the Century his son, Franz Xavier Bergman (1861-1936), inherited the company and opened a new foundry, basing many of his early bronzes on designs from his father\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n
The Franz Xavier Bergman foundry produced an eclectic mix of Oriental, erotic and animal figure bronzes.<\/p>\n
Bergman used a cold painted technique, whereby cast bronzes were decorated in several layers of polychrome \u2018dust paint.\u2019 These layers were not fired to fix them to the bronzes, hence they are \u2018cold painted.\u2019 Sadly the knowledge of this technique, particularly of how to mix the paint, has since been lost.<\/p>\n
He has also created many sensuous poses of young women in the Art Nouveau style. The women are disguised by a covering, but they reveal all when a button is pushed or a lever moved.Bergman\u2019s animal figures are often humanised or whimsical, humorous objects d\u2019art, which adds to their popularity. Often, carefully sculpted animals such as bears could be opened to reveal an erotic figure inside.<\/p>\n
Bronzes cast in the Bergman foundry are normally stamped with a capital \u2018B\u2019 that is placed in a twin handled vase. They are also often inscribed \u2018Geschutzt\u2019 which refers to the model\/design being \u2018registered\u2019 or copyrighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15,46,102],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4007","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-all","product_cat-bronzes-and-metalware","product_cat-sold","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","wcspt-has-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janeshortantiques.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}