Viktor Schreckengost Floor Lamps

American, 1906-2008

The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist. A year later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest faculty member at the CIA. In 1931, Schreckengost won the first of several awards for excellence in ceramics at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and his works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and elsewhere. By the mid-1930s, Schreckengost had begun to pursue his interest in industrial design. For American Limoges, he created the first modern mass-produced dinnerware, called Americana. Along with engineer Ray Spiller, Schreckengost designed the first-cab-over-engine truck for Cleveland's White Motor Company. By the end of the decade, he had designed the first Mercury Bicycle for Murray, Ohio. In 1939, the bicycle and "The Four Elements" in clay were displayed at the New York World's Fair. In the 1940s, Schreckengost's designs for children's pedal cars (as well as bicycles and toys) helped Murray, Ohio become the world's largest manufacturer of pedal cars. His design and ceramic work was interrupted by World War II, when he was recruited by the Navy to develop a system for radar recognition that won him the Secretary of Navy's commendation. After the war, Schreckengost resumed his industrial design career creating products for Murray, Sears, General Electric, Salem China Company, and Harris Printing, among others. Approximately 100 million of his bicycles were manufactured by Murray, making it the largest bicycle-maker in the world. He retired from industrial design in 1972, but continued teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Biography from the Archives of askART In June, 2006, Viktor Schreckengost celebrated his 100th birthday in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Of him at this event, it was written: Viktor Schreckengost, a prolific designer whose works ranging from toys, ceramics and paintings to dinnerware and trucks, have touched countless lives, expects his next inspiration to come at any time. . . (he) always seemed to know what to create by responding to needs---like improving the ride of a child's wagon or making user-friendly tableware with an artistic flair." To recognize his birthday, more than 130 galleries and museums featured his work the summer of 2006 in a "National Centennial Exhibition" that paid tribute to his legacy that "includes generations of students who became designers who shaped the output of industrial America in the post World-War II era." In February 2008, Victor Schreckengost died at age 101 at Tallahassee, Florida, where he was spending the winter.

Creator: Viktor Schreckengost

Pair of Vintage Art Deco Viktor Schreckengost Chinoiserie Floor Lamps

By Viktor Schreckengost

Located in Chicago, IL

Pair of Vintage Deco Viktor Schreckengost Chinoiserie Floor Lamps A really nice period example of this stylized chinoiserie design. In the manner of Hollywood Regency and Oriental /...

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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Viktor Schreckengost Floor Lamps

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Metal

Pair of Vintage Art Deco Viktor Schreckengost Chinoiserie Floor Lamps

$7,500 / set

Vintage Art Deco Viktor Schreckengost Chinoiserie (China man) Floor Lamp

By Viktor Schreckengost, Colonial Premier Lamp Co.

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage Art Deco Viktor Schreckengost Chinoiserie (China man) Floor Lamp,,, Super stylized.. Classic Art Deco design.. Hollywood Regency / Asian Modernist.. Nice original condition,,...

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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Viktor Schreckengost Floor Lamps

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Aluminum

$4,420 Sale Price

35% Off

H 63 in Dm 23.5 in

Art Deco Floor Lamp

Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK

Art Deco floor lamp with plastic lampsahde. Very good original condition.

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1930s Slovak Art Deco Vintage Viktor Schreckengost Floor Lamps

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Art Deco Floor Lamp

$1,434

H 59.06 in Dm 23.23 in

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