RARE Heinrich Hoffmann & Curt Schlevogt Polar Bear Czech glass Compote pair 1920

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  Czech art deco Polar Bear lavender Glass Figural Pedestal Compotes by Curt Schlevogt and Heinrich Hoffmann,
  
  (* Czech glass manufacturer Hoffmann & Schlevogt) Heinrich Hoffmann (Heinrich Hoffmann, lived between: 1875- 1939) from the owner of the 'Heinrich Hoffmann glass manufactory' and Henry Schlevogt (lived between the years: 1904-1984) from the owner of the 'Curt Schlevogt glass manufactory' were relatives thanks to the latter's marriage to the former's daughter Charlotte Hoffman Schlevog).(One of the factory's well-known series is called 'Ingrid' after the two's daughter. The factory they founded together was established in the city of Gablonz in northern Bohemia. The two founders worked closely for years, often using the same casting molds. All of which were produced exclusively for them by one of the strongest families in the field of glass - the family of Josef Riedel, founded in Polubný / Polaun. Heinrich Hoffmann opened a shop that sold glass jewelry in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, after he finished studying glassmaking in Galbanz, he expanded his range of products to include decorative objects created in casting molds and this is due to the great boost that the field of cast glass objects received from the enormous success of The famous French glass designer and manufacturer René Lalique. Henry Schlevogt was the only son of Curt Schlevogt, a Czechoslovak artist of German-Jewish origin, who produced glass jewelry and glass buttons in a factory he founded in Gbelunz. He married Charlotte Hoffmann in the late 1920s. . He was particularly interested in unusual glass colors and the use of casting molds with innovative shapes for the time (Art Deco style), And at that time he began to conduct experiments and develop his 'jade' glasses which were green and blue and were called 'malachite' glass and 'lapis' glass. His first works were very different from the casting molds he inherited from his grandfather. Henry Lebgot created a very diverse collection of particularly original designs of glasses in shades of emerald green and lapis blue, these items had a particularly high level of finish and were considered very high quality. This collection was presented under the brand name 'Ingrid' which was his daughter and it (the collection) was an immediate success in Europe and the United States. The 'Ingrid' collection was presented at the spring trade fair in Leipzig in 1934. And in the same year, the new brand was also presented at the World's Fair in Chicago. In 1937 the Czech pavilion won the first prize at the World Fair in Paris, but all this was stopped due to the occupation of the Sudetenland by the Nazis in 1938 and then by the Nazi invasion of the whole of Czechoslovakia. He was arrested by the Red Army that arrived in 1944 and all his property was confiscated and he was sentenced to deportation to Siberia. He owed his rescue to a number of wealthy and well-connected American and French friends who claimed to the Czech authorities that he was born in the United States. His nightmare ended in 1948, when his friends managed to smuggle him and his wife with Austrian passports to France. The Czech government nationalized the entire glass industry after World War II, and the nationalized glass industry began to take advantage of his valuable casting molds left behind when he fled and cast them without his permission. In the period after the Second World War, they began to produce the 'Ingrid' series again and take advantage of the well-known brand, therefore there are late examples that were cast without approval or license mainly in the seventies of the twentieth century. These late castings were cast by Josef Riedel in the town of Dolni Polubný. From his new seat in Paris in the 1950s, Henry Lebgot opened a glass and crystal trading house on the street: ' rue de Paradis' and was the exclusive distributor of the manufacturer: ' Val d'Andelle glassworks ', thereby amassing a great deal of new capital. He sold the new business he founded in 1972. He died in Paris in 1984. Two of the most important designers who worked for the original factory before the war were: Artur Pleva and Frantisek Pazourek (from Agopedia)
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