A German Silver and Hardstone Six-Light "Sabbathleucten" Candelabrum, Peter Bruckmann und Söhne, Heilbronn, the design possibly by Friedrich Adler, circa 1910-20

the shaped domed base with a border of dense foliage, trumpet-shaped stem rising from a chased knop centered by moonstones, decorated with shaped panels of flowers on patinated ground and flaring to six short arms with chased spreading sconces, central pierced knop topped by faceted crystal

Arthur M. Feldman and Laurie A. Stein, "Jüdische Kultgeräte," Friedrich Adler Zwischen Jugendstil Und Art Déco, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, 1994, 138-49.

some overall wear, otherwise good, sophisticated design and impressive scale
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Peter Bruckmann und Söhne was founded by Georg Peter Bruckmann in Heilbronn in 1805. His grandson Peter Bruckmann co-owned the silver factory from 1887 to 1923 and signed the founding manifesto of the German Werkbund in 1907. He served as the Werkbund’s chairman from 1909-1919, which helped position Bruckmann & Söhne as the leading German silver manufacturer in the early 20^th century. The company frequently partnered with individual artists to produce unique pieces of silver. Friedrich Adler began a long association with Bruckmann & Söhne early in his artistic career, and collaborated with the company to produce numerous pieces of Judaica. His surviving work includes an Altar Lamp, Kiddush Cup, Sedergerät, Elijah Cup, Etrog Box, and Habdalah Weinbecher und Gewürzbehälter, all of which were produced by Bruckmann & Söhne in 1913-14 and are currently in the Hill-Page Collection at the Spertus Museum in Chicago.

Friedrich Adler was born in 1878 in Laupheim, Germany and studied at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich from 1894 to 1898. He moved to Hamburg in 1907 accepting a teaching position at the Kunstgewerbeschule where he specialized in furniture, textile, jewelry and silverware design. In 1933 Adler was forced by the Nazis to relinquish his teaching position, but continued to teach privately to Jewish students and for the Jüdischen Kulturbund (The Jewish Cultural Organization in Hamburg), until the Kulturbund was forced to close by the regime in 1941. In 1942, Freidrich Adler was deported to Auschwitz; the exact date of his death is unknown. Most of Adler's work and accomplishments have been either destroyed by the Nazis during the war or lost over the years. He is remembered as one of the great influential artists/designers of his time, working as much in the Art Nouveau, Neoclassical and Art Deco traditions as in his own very memorable and unique style.

Adler's designs have included several tombs and tomb stones for the Jewish cemetery in Laupheim, a synagogue for the 1914 Werkbund exhibition in Cologne, and a 1919 memorial for Jewish soldiers at the Hamburger Temple. Two examples of Adler’s Sabbath lights are designated in the 1994 catalogue, Friedrich Adler Zwischen Jugendstil Und Art Déco, including the pictured example manufactured by Bruckmann & Söhne in 1913-14.