Description

Specialties

• Master Jeweler – Manufacturing jeweler for the great jewelry houses.
• Noted for his animal jewelry, often modeled from wildlife at the zoo.
• Other designs were often from nature: leaves, branches, reeds, flowers, etc.
• Designs from other cultures included Egyptian, Aztec, Japanese & Persian, Classical Greece & Rome.

Manufactured for

• Tiffany & Co.
• Marcus & Co.
• Cartier
• Dreicer & Co.
• Shreve, Crump & Low
• Black, Starr & Frost
• Marcus & Co.
• Gorham
• Bailey, Banks & Biddle
• J.E. Caldwell
• Raymond Yard

1892

• Immigrates to the U.S. after having lived, studied and worked in Baden, Paris, England, Cairo and South Africa.

1894

• Partner at Wagner & Manz, jewelers to the trade, with John Wagner, 17 E 16th St.

1898

• Associated with Chas. Bachem & Co, Newark and 41 Maiden Lane

1901 – 1903

• Creates jewelry for F. Walter Lawrence exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

1904

• Forms McTeigue, Manz & Co with Walter P. McTeigue & Sophie Bachem, 31 W. 31st St.

1906-1907

• William E. Marcus, Jr., the future president of Marcus & Co, studies designing with Manz’s firm

1908

• Admitted to National Arts Club

1910

• Starts own atelier: Gustav Manz, Maker of Fine Jewelry, 37 E. 28th Street

1918 – 1921

• Moves office from 516 Fifth to 2 W. 47th St. Younger daughter, Doris, joins firm as sales associate.

1924

• Exhibits designs at annual Metropolitan Museum American industrial art show, representing best manufactures designed and made in U.S.

1926

• Arts & Decoration publishes profile of Manz in the January issue (‘A Master Sculptor in Precious Metals’)

1930s – 40s

• 42 W. 48th St. near Rockefeller Center
• Creates mountings for House of Jewels exhibit at New York World€™s Fair

1946

• Death of Gustav Manz

For a lot more info on Gustav Manz, visit Laura Mathew’s blog here.