(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. In 1938, he showed a door made of artistically forged iron. He had created this for a hospital in Angoulême. His designs from before the First World War were much more oriented towards historicism than Art Nouveau. Since Art Nouveau had passed its peak soon after the turn of the century, Szabo immediately turned to Art Deco later on.
Without a striking diversity in subject matter, Szabo produced a large number of table lamps, appliques, chandeliers, stove screens, banisters, and decorative iron doors. Among these, 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. He sometimes also used 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
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