Imre Jakabffy (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 8. (Budapest, 1984)

VARGA, Vera: Art Nouveau art glasses

16. Table service, Henrik Giergl, c. 1890. Blown, engraved glass. Rippl-Rónai — like the leading foreign artists of the age — was in close connection with Jenő Radisics, director of the Museum of Applied Arts at that time, who used to aid the new tendencies of Art Nouveau and of course he did so in RipplRónai's case, as well. Rippl-Rrónai exhibited 26 of his decorative glass pieces in the Museum of Applied Arts in May 1926 and in the same place then he showed the table and cupboard of the Andrássy dining room at Christmas Exhibition of the Hungarian Society of Applied Arts. The critics valued that glass works rather negatively, saying that these works were ,,the bastard sproots of modern taste" without any functional aim. But, as for Rippl-Rónai the function of these glasses was being part of the interiour decoration. We hove 4 of Rippl-Rónai's decorative glasses in our collection. These are, like all his art glasses blown-at-the-lamp, executed by Friedrich Zitzmann, who was since the 1890-ies an expert master of glassblowing. In style Rippl-Rónai followed the 114