Collection
Swiss Black Forest Carvings
Daniels Antiques has been collecting and dealing in Swiss Black Forest carvings for over four decades. Simon Daniels is co-author of Swiss Carvings: The Art of the Black Forest, 1820–1940 (2006), the standard reference work on the subject, and every piece in the collection is informed by specialist research, first-hand connoisseurship, and a deep engagement with the field's provenance.
Swiss Black Forest Carvings
The Swiss Black Forest carving tradition represents one of the great achievements of nineteenth-century decorative art — a body of work produced in the workshops of Brienz, in the Bernese Oberland, by carvers whose technical mastery and observational precision placed them at the forefront of European wood sculpture. From the 1820s through to the early twentieth century, Brienz workshops produced carved walnut and linden wood animals, hunting subjects, furniture, and figural groups of extraordinary quality, exhibited at the great international expositions in Paris, Vienna, and Chicago, and collected across Europe and America. The leading figures of the tradition — Johann Huggler, Walter Mader, and Eduard Binder among them — worked to a standard that has never been surpassed in the medium.
The collection includes signed and attributed works by Johann Huggler and Walter Mader, pieces with documented exhibition histories, and examples drawn directly from the pages of Swiss Carvings. Inquiries are welcome — pieces are available for viewing by appointment at the gallery in Aspen, Colorado.
