An Icon of Polish Design.Julia Keilowa designed everyday objects in the Art Déco style. Her artistic education and sculptural experience allowed her to develop her own distinctive style. Thanks to the popularity of plating, a technique of covering non-precious metal products with a thin layer of silver or gold, her designs entered the salons of the Second Republic of Poland, earning Keilowa fame and recognition. Attempts to imitate her style were made as early as the 1930s, there were even forgeries of her products, which testifies to the significance of Keilowa’s design and to her status. Today, Kei...
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9: Workshop room
Richer in historical knowledge on design, we propose one checks how the creation of utalitarian art looks at present and how apprentices are prepared for work in this field.We invi…
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8: Attribution
In the 1930s, Julia Keilowa was not the only one to design for plating and metalwork companies. We know that there were other artists designing for them, but we don’t know their na…
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7: Fame and oblivion
We perceive the life of Julia Keilowa from the present-day perspective of being an example of the professional emancipation of women and design. In the 1930s she was young artist,…
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6: Good design
The objects designed by Julia Keilowa distinguish themselves through their: distinctive style, balanced composition based upon mathematical proportions, strive for harmony, rhytmic…
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5: Julia Keilowa
Julia Keil, née Ringel (1902-1942) was a Polish sculptor and decorative metal designer. She was born in Stryj into a Jewish family. She attended secondary school in Lviv and Vienna…
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4: The second wave of emancipation
Following the First World War female designers increasingly moved away from those areas of artistic activity traditionally deemed female work. Activities considered to be unwomanly…
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3: Emancipation
In the first decades of the twentieth-century increasing numbers of women were profesionally involved in artistic production. It is here important to emphasize particulary their ro…
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2: Art Déco
Art déco was a popular style in the Europe and America of the 1920s and 1930s. It could be seen in architecture, sculpture, painting and graphic art, as well as in utalitarian art.…
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1: Introduction
Julia Keilowa designed everyday objects in the Art Déco style. Her artistic education and sculptural experience allowed her to develop her own distinctive style. Thanks to the popu…