Tiffany Stained Glass History

Many popular feature stained glass artwork style found in lamps, windows, panels, doors and another man named Louis Comfort Tiffany who lived between 1848 and 1933. He was an American artist and designer, whose name is synonymous with the Art Nouveau period. Tiffany was a painter and decorator. He used both to promote the copper foil method of stained glass construction is so popular today. He is widely credited with the popularity of this method, and which bears his name.
Louis Comfort Tiffany company made lamps, windows, doors, jewelry, silverware, ceramic glass mosaics, blown, etc., and he founded the Tiffany Glass Company in 1885, but it no longer exists. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, who had already appointed a well known jeweler Tiffany & Co. in 1837.
It may be surprising to many, but a work of art of stained glass has a much longer history and relatively unknown.
stained glass panels have found that almost 2000 years. A stained glass panels found in Pompeii. Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, about 79 articles of ads that have been found in the ruins of Pompeii are in museums around the world, especially in Naples, Italy.
In addition, illustrations of stained glass as we know, has also been used in religious circles from 11 AD in Europe.
Thank you to Louis Comfort Tiffany for its exceptional quality and beautiful work of art and for refining and popularizing this method old art of stained glass is now world famous.
1848: Louis Comfort Tiffany was born into the wealthy family of Charles Lewis Tiffany of Tiffany & Company in New York (jewelry and silverware). This helped propel his company and his career.
1875-1878: Tiffany Glass worked in various companies in Brooklyn.
1885: Tiffany started his own glass company that has led to the closure of American artists associated. Tiffany Glass Company was officially established in December 1885th It was later renamed Tiffany Studios in 1902. Louis Comfort Tiffany company made lamps, windows, doors, jewelry, silverware, ceramic glass mosaics, blown, etc. Tiffany main competitors were other artists and glass artists John La Farge, Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner Duffner of Kimberly and Company. Tiffany, La Farge, and Kimberly had worked at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn from 1875 to 1878. Subsequently, many other artists who were trained in this style of glass work.
1893: Tiffany is building a new factory, called Stourbridge Glass Company and later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Queens, New York. His work was exhibited at Expo 1893 in Chicago. This provided a global platform for its unique products, which further promote his business.
1894: He introduced the term, Favrile glass (hand) in his new glass factory, and then recorded the term in 1894. He then used this term in all his work in glass, ceramics and enamel.