Josef Lorenzl

Josef Lorenzl (1 September 1892 – 15 August 1950) was an Austrian sculptor and ceramicist of the Art Deco period, the same era as Ferdinand Preiss (1882–1943) and Demetre Chiparus (1886–1947).

Lorenzl started his career working at a foundry at the Vienna Arsenal where he learned the techniques of bronze casting.

[1] The large majority of Lorenzl's figurines were attached to Brazilian green onyx plinths.

As with his chryselephantine pieces, his ceramic works were in great demand and became the embodiment of the Art Déco period.

[4] 'Keramos' or 'Wiener Kunst-Keramik und Porzellan Manufaktur AG' was founded in 1910 by several disabled war veterans, subsidised by Austria and later became a public company, directed by Otto Köller, and Rudof and Heinrich Wolf.