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Orientalist Cold Painted Vienna Bronze Young Boy Seated Near Fire Logs, Signed

About the Item

This sweet little cold painted Vienna bronze is a nice example of the work of the Bergmann Foundry. It bears his seal impressed on the outside of his left thigh as shown in our photos. The young boy sits and contemplates with his logs next to him. Waiting to get it lit possibly. All the fine work of the Bergmann Foundry is present. Good detailing to the casting and paint. A fine example by the most respected and prolific maker of this genre.

Creator:

Bergmann Foundry (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)Width: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Depth: 3.25 in (8.26 cm)

Style:

Other (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Bronze,Cast,Cold-Painted

Place of Origin:

Austria

Period:

Early 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

ca. 1900

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Petaluma, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU879937672652

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Bergmann Foundry

Globally celebrated Austrian metalworker Franz Xaver Bergman(n) is known for his bronze statuettes and figurines, which are rich with personality and alive with color.

Bergmann's father, Franz Bergmann, Sr., apprenticed under Josef Ott and became a professional caster and chaser, and moved from Gablonz, Bohemia, to Vienna in 1860, where he opened a small foundry. There, he used what he’d learned about naturally patinating bronzes and created popular figurines and sculptures. At the turn of the century, Franz Xaver inherited the company from his father and opened a second foundry.

At the Bergmann Foundry, Franz Xaver Bergmann created numerous bronze figures, employing a technique now known as “cold painting” that has since been lost to time. Bergmann’s early works were based on his father’s molds. He hired local workers to cast his own designs.

Bergmann’s works encompass an immense variety of subject matter. His foundry created bronzes of humanized animals, mythological creatures and animals in natural poses. Many of his statuettes are representative of his fondness for faraway lands and peoples, with a great number of his works depicting Native American, Asian, Persian and Arabian cultures. He's also known to have created some risqué Art Nouveau figurines — to some collectors, the Bergmann Foundry is known for its sculptures of women in various sensuous poses wearing ingeniously executed removable articles of bronze clothing.

Franz Xaver Bergmann’s recognized maker’s mark was a capital “B” inside a scrolled horseshoe, but Bergmann would employ the pseudonym "Nam Greb" — the reverse of his last name — on his racier pieces in order to keep his more conservative and conventional customers from connecting his name to those works.

Bergmann had to close his company’s doors in 1930 owing to the financial strains that came with the Great Depression. He died in 1936 before the company could open again. His son, Robert Bergmann, reopened the foundry many years later and continued to own and operate it until his death in 1954.

Karl Fuhrmann & Co. purchased what remained of the Bergmann Foundry after Robert died. Franz Xaver Bergmann’s cast-bronze figures endure to this day and are highly prized by collectors and enthusiasts of figurative art.

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