#franklkoralewsky

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Lock, Frank L. Koralewsky, 1911, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Frank L. Koralewsky served as a traditional ironworker’s apprentice in his native north-German town of Stralsund. After obtaining journeyman status, he worked in various German shops before immigrating to Boston in the mid- 1890s. By 1906 he was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, specializing in locksmithing and hardware. This extremely intricate lock, which took seven years to complete, exemplifies the early-20th-century taste for sentimental medievalism and represents the pinnacle of the metalworking tradition at the turn of the 20th century. Exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, where it won a gold medal, the lock illustrates Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Gift of Mr. Richard T. Crane Size: 50.8 × 50.8 × 20.3 cm (20 × 20 × 8 in.) Medium: Iron with inlays of gold, silver, bronze, and copper on wood base

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28869/

[aic-american]

Lock, Frank L. Koralewsky, 1911, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Frank L. Koralewsky served as a traditional ironworker’s apprentice in his native north-German town of Stralsund. After obtaining journeyman status, he worked in various German shops before immigrating to Boston in the mid- 1890s. By 1906 he was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, specializing in locksmithing and hardware. This extremely intricate lock, which took seven years to complete, exemplifies the early-20th-century taste for sentimental medievalism and represents the pinnacle of the metalworking tradition at the turn of the 20th century. Exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, where it won a gold medal, the lock illustrates Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Gift of Mr. Richard T. Crane Size: 50.8 × 50.8 × 20.3 cm (20 × 20 × 8 in.) Medium: Iron with inlays of gold, silver, bronze, and copper on wood base

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28869/

[aic-american]

Lock, Frank L. Koralewsky, 1911, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Frank L. Koralewsky served as a traditional ironworker’s apprentice in his native north-German town of Stralsund. After obtaining journeyman status, he worked in various German shops before immigrating to Boston in the mid- 1890s. By 1906 he was a member of the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, specializing in locksmithing and hardware. This extremely intricate lock, which took seven years to complete, exemplifies the early-20th-century taste for sentimental medievalism and represents the pinnacle of the metalworking tradition at the turn of the 20th century. Exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, where it won a gold medal, the lock illustrates Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s fairy tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Gift of Mr. Richard T. Crane Size: 50.8 × 50.8 × 20.3 cm (20 × 20 × 8 in.) Medium: Iron with inlays of gold, silver, bronze, and copper on wood base

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/28869/