(1877-1961)
For more than thirty years, the Hungarian-born and later naturalized Frenchman Adalbert-Georges Szabo contributed to the development of French wrought iron art. As early as 1906 he exhibited his work at the exhibitions of the Société des Artistes Français, and in 1938 he showed a door made of artistically forged iron that he had created for a hospital in Angoulême. His designs from the time before the First World War were much more oriented towards historicism than Art Nouveau, and since Art Nouveau had passed its peak soon after the turn of the century, Szabo then immediately turned to Art Deco.
Without a striking diversity in subject matter, Szabo produced a large number of table lamps, appliques, chandeliers, stove screens, banisters and decorative iron doors, of which only the door made of chased and gilded bronze to the first class dining room on the ocean liner “Normandie” should be mentioned. He made his lamps mostly in wrought iron, sometimes also in copper or bronze.
Source: Alastair Duncan, Lampen Lüster Leuchter, Jugendstil Art Déco, Prestel-Verlag, München 1979, p. 187
Picture: Alastair Duncan, Lampen Lüster Leuchter, Jugendstil Art Déco, Prestel-Verlag, München 1979, Picture 135
