[136844] Barnard Castle : Bowes Museum - Stained Glass Window - J Gruber

            Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham.
Stained Glass Window, c1925.
By Jacques Gruber (1870-1936).

 A three part panel (triptych) of stained glass depicting a castle set high on a hill against the background of swirling clouds above fir trees and hills. 
Detail - Signature.

Jacques Gruber was brought up in the town of Nancy in Eastern France, where the great glass artist Emile Galle had developed the naturalistic Art Nouveau style at the end of the 19th century. After training in Paris, Gruber returned to Nancy and devoted himself to decorative design particularly in the medium of glass.

In 1916 he returned to Paris and embraced the angular, modern Art Deco style that was shown extensively in the Paris Exhibition of 1925. In 1928 his work was shown to great acclaim in New York where he was judged - to his own annoyance - to be a modern artist in the manner of Picasso or Braque. 

This panel shows a view of his native Alsace-Lorraine, a province recently returned to France after the First World War. It mixes the 'old' style and content of his naturalistic Art Nouveau designs with the 'new' angularity that dominated European design in the 1920s. It is one of the few pieces of authentic French Art Deco in a British public collection.
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Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, 1869-92.
By Jules Pellechet (1829-1903).
For John Bowes (1811-1885), son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore.
Grade l listed.                               
   

Taken on: September 2, 2024

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