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Jacob Adolphus Holzer (1858–1938) was a Swiss-born designer, muralist, mosaicist,〔Edith Crouch, ''The Mosaics of Louis Comfort Tiffany'', ""The Artists of Tiffany Studios"〕 interior designer, and sculptor who was associated with both John La Farge and Augustus Saint-Gaudens before he left to direct the mosaic workshops of Louis Comfort Tiffany,〔Duncan Alistair, ''Louis Comfort Tiffany'', 1992:81〕 where he was preceded by his friend from La Farge's studio, the German immigrant Joseph Lauber (1855—1948). Holzer worked with Tiffany until 1898. Holzer designed the sculptural electrified lantern that became famous at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893, one of two electrified lanterns that have been called the "ancestors" of all later Tiffany lamps.〔It is preserved in the sanctuary of the Church of the Covenant, Boston ((Church of the Covenant Tiffany Windows ))〕 In New York some of his work with Tiffany can be seen in the lobby of The Osborne, 205 West 57th Street, New York City. In Boston, he designed mosaics and three stained-glass windows for the Central Congregational Church, 67 Newbury Street (1893),〔Now (Church of the Covenant ).〕 and perhaps the Frederick Ayer Mansion, Commonwealth Avenue (1899–1901).〔(National Historic Landmark nomination form )〕 In Chicago his mosaics are featured in Tiffany's public spaces of Holabird & Roche's Marquette Building, Chicago (1894, building completed 1895). He was the designer of the Tiffany dome at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington Street (1897, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects).〔("ArchitectureChicago Plus" )〕〔("Louis Comfort Tiffany and J.A. Holzer" ); ("The Mosaics" )〕 At Princeton, his mosaics of subjects from Homer fill the rear wall of Alexander Hall (William Appleton Potter, architect, 1895, now Richardson auditorium).〔(Richardson Auditorium ); in 1896 at the Architectural League, New York, he showed a section of a rose-window intended for Princeton College ("The Architectural League", ''New York Times'' 14 February 1896).〕 In Troy, New York, his stained-glass east wuindow and baptistry mosaics can be seen in St Paul's Church, remodelled uinder Tiffany's direction .〔("St Paul's Church" )〕 On leaving Tiffany studios, he travelled in the Near East.〔A watercolor, ''Intérieur de mosquée à Damas'', 1898, was sold at auction, 17 November 1997 and 11 May 2005.〕 He provided some of the illustrations for Mary Bowers Warren, ''Little Journeys Abroad'' (Boston, 1894). ==Gallery== File:Center aisle of Nave, St. Peter's, Albany.jpg|Center aisle of St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York) File:Holzer, J. A., Homer Story (left detail), 1894.jpg|''Homeric Story'', 1894, Alexander Hall, Princeton University, left detail featuring Agamemnon, Menelaus, and other notable Achaeans File:Holzer, J. A., Homeric Story (center detail), 1894.jpg|''Homeric Story'', 1894, center detail featuring Homer, Paris, Helen, and Achilles File:Holzer, J. A., Homeric Story (right detail), 1894.jpg|''Homeric Story'', 1894, right detail featuring Hector, Priam, and other Trojans 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob Adolphus Holzer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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