American stained glass artist (died 1933)

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Louis Comfort Tiffany was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in art glass, especially stained glass and Favrile glass. He is associated with the art nouveau and aesthetic art movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass such as vases, ceramics, jewelry, enamels, and metalwork.

Born

1848

February 18

Died

1933

Era

1840s

Country

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Louis, in brief

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1848 Born
1933 Died

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1268 The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
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The world in 1933

When Louis departed

april 1 The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
april 24 Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
april 25 Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
april 26 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1848

Andrew Inglis Clark 1848–1907 Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician (died 1907) Carl Wernicke 1848– German neuropathologist. (died 1905) Gottlob Frege 1848–1925 German mathematician and philosopher (born 1848) Johann Palisa 1848–1925 Austrian astronomer (died 1925) Tōgō Heihachirō 1848–1934 Japanese admiral (died 1934) Vilfredo Pareto 1848–1923 Italian sociologist and economist (born 1845)

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