Louis Comfort Tiffany

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Louis Comfort Tiffany
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Louis Comfort Tiffany

• American artist and designer (February
  18,1848-January 17, 1933)
• Son of famed jeweler Charles Louis Tiffany,
  founder of Tiffany and Company
• When 18 he traveled through Europe and was amazed
  by the beauty of the stained glass.

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His later life

• He won an award for his famous stained glass
  window The Four Seasons

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Rather than paint on glass like the early stained
glass in Europe, Tiffany developed a way to make
the colored glass which was called favrile glass.
The robber barons of the second industrial
revolution such as Vanderbilt, Carnegie and
Rockefeller amassed huge fortunes that the were
eager to spend on decorating their huge homes.
Tiffany designed windows for their homes and
jewelry for their wives.
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Autumn Landscapes
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He used cheap jars and bottles at the beginning
of his career because they had mineral impurities
that finer glass lacks helping him to create his
favrile (new) glass.
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In 1898 Tiffany teamed with another giant of the
second industrial revolution, Thomas Edison, to
create lamps that were operated with electricity.

These lamps also gave access to original art to
the common man
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Tiffany used the beauty of nature as inspiration
for his pieces.
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In 1957 the mansion created by Tiffany, Laurelton
Hall, was destroyed by fire. The home was a
masterpiece combining his passion for color, art
and light. By this time his work had fallen out
of fashion but many pieces have been salvaged and
are housed in the Morse Museum of American Art.