Busto Jeunesse color oro di Ezio Ceccarelli

Terracotta bust representing ''the Youth'' Young smiling girl with flowers in her hair executed and signed by the Italian artist Ezio Ceccarelli at the beginning of the 20th century and executed in terracotta by the famous Austrian manufacturer Goldscheider Wien. This bust, dated around 1901, features on the back the brands engraved in the terracotta of the manufacture and the artist's signature. The sculpture is published in the book ''Goldscheider'' by Ora Pinhas Richard Denis ED. Below a brief history of the artist and manufacture. Ezio Ceccarelli (Montecatini Val di Cecina, 27 July 1865 - Volterra, 27 December 1927) was an Italian sculptor. Biography He lived mainly in Florence, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He ran a sculptor's workshop in via Fra 'Bartolomeo, where he had pupils and collaborators; in recent years he taught at the Art Institute of Volterra. Author of some public monuments (to Garibaldi in Massa, to the fallen in Porto Ceresio and Montecatini Val di Cecina, to Carlo Montanari in Verona), he exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1907, 1909 and 1910 and at the national exhibition held in Milan in 1906 in occasion of the opening of the Simplon Tunnel. Ceccarelli distinguished himself above all in the execution of original models intended for serial reproduction in stoneware, marble and alabaster, unlike his colleagues Mario Salvini and Giuseppe Gambogi, who generally preferred to work on other people's models. His most famous work is the Ecce Homo, a marble sculpture that was awarded in an international competition in Turin in 1899, and was then reproduced in patinated terracotta by Federico Ghiozzi Florentine manufacture. Not to be overlooked is his collaboration with the factories Keras, Altoviti-Avila, Fratelli Pugi and above all with the well-known Goldscheider of Paris. [3] The links with France were many: he exhibited at the editions of the Salon of 1900 and 1904, he was a friend of Auguste Rodin, while one of his students, Enrico Vannucci, became a majolica modeler there; moreover, through the Parisian branch of the Florentine Luigi Martini, he was able to access the French market more easily. The marble compositions depicting infantile subjects (Fior di liglio, Il pouting, The kiss of the little brothers, The love of Italy) were much appreciated by the European bourgeoisie market, while the bronze allegory depicting an angel, closer to symbolism, it was acquired by the Pitti Palace Modern Art Gallery. His cousin Pietro Ceccarelli (1888-1946), working both in Tuscany and Venezuela, was his pupil. Goldscheider In 1885, Friedrich Goldscheider came from the Bohemian city of Pilsen to Vienna and founded the Goldscheider Porcelain Manufactory and Majolica Factory. It became one of the most influential ceramic manufactories of terracotta, faience and bronze objects in Austria, with subsidiaries in Paris, Leipzig and Florence. For over half a century, Goldscheider created masterpieces of historical revivalism, Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Art Deco. Famous artists such as Josef Lorenzl, Stefan Dakon, Ida Meisinger and the two perhaps best known Austrian ceramic artists (Michael Powolny and Vally Wieselthier) worked for Goldscheider. Several of the artists who worked for Goldscheider also worked for other Viennese studios, such as Augarten, Keramos or for the German brands Rosenthal and Meissen. The Goldscheider family migrated in 1938 to the United Kingdom and the USA. Walter Goldscheider started a new factory in Trenton, New Jersey, and he returned to Vienna in 1950. Marcel Goldscheider went to Stoke-on-Trent and produced figurative ceramics for Myott, and he opened his own studio in the 1950s in Hanley. Both brothers died in the early 1960s. More than 10,000 different models were created over a period of three generations. Since the very beginning, many of these won first prizes and gold medals at innumerable world fairs, exhibitions and trade fairs.