Edmond Laurent Etling (before 1909 – around 1940) was a French art dealer, gallery owner, designer, and a manufacturer of high-quality decorative objects made of bronze, ceramics and art glass in the

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style. He owned ''La Societe Anonyme Edmond Etling'' (English: Edmond Etling Limited Company) for manufacturing, his foundry was named ''Edmond Etling & Cie,'' and sometimes the products are referred to as "Etling Glass". His gallery, ''Galerie Béranger'' was located Paris (however there are discrepancies on the exact address).

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, Claire Colinet, Armand Godard, Geneviève Granger, Marcel Guillard, Maurice Guiraud-Rivière, Géza Hiecz,

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, and Lucille Sévin. Other artists worked with Etling when casting their statuettes including Aurore Onu,

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, Raymonde Guerbe, and André Vincent Becquerel. Etling is known for light blue opalescent objects such as plates and bowls, which were also produced in gray and frosted glass. Most items bore the cast signature "Etling France" followed by a model number related to the Choisy-le-Roi catalogue. In 1910, Etling was awarded the diplome d'honneur at Brussels International (1910). In 1923, he was awarded the Grand Prix in Paris. In 1940, Etling closed his shop due to

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. Because Etling was of Jewish descent, he was send to a Nazi concentration camp where he died. In the 1970s, the '' Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine de Sèvres'' reproduced some Etling designs, particularly the female nudes.

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Projet Etling / Etling Project, Glass of La Societe Anonyme Edmond Etling
{{DEFAULTSORT:Etling, Edmond Date of birth missing Date of death unknown French people executed in Nazi concentration camps French art dealers French brands Glassmaking companies of France Design companies established in 1909 French Jews who died in the Holocaust 20th-century French Jews

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