JOSEF HOFFMANN* (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)Cup design for t...

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€1,200

JOSEF HOFFMANN*
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
Cup design for the Wiener Werkstätte
Pencil/paper, 21.2 x 29.6 cm
monogrammed JH, stamped ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 1.000

Josef Hoffmann, student of Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures in Viennese modernity as an architect and designer. In 1903 he founded the Wiener Werkstätte (WW) with Koloman Moser and industrialist Fritz Wandorf, based on the model of the British Arts and Crafts Movement and under the impression of Viennese Art Nouveau. Hoffmann, friends u. With Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak, one of the most important designers of the WW remained until the bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte, also referred to as a Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstätten, had the objective of combining the entire areas of life of man in terms of design in the sense of a total work of art. Customers mainly included artists and the emerging Jewish upper and middle class. Josef Hoffmann's acquaintance with Berta Zuckerkandl led to the first major order: the Purkersdorf sanatorium, by Viktor Zuckerkandl, Berta's Schwager, west of Vienna. Among the employees of the WW were also around a dozen women who were decisive for the change of style from Art Nouveau to the Art Deco of the 20s, e.g. B. Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser and Susi Singer. In 1823 Josef Lobmeyr founded. His still existing company in Wiener Weihburggasse. Soon the company became a court supplier Kaiserhaus. Son Ludwig became the most important protagonist of the Austrian-Bohemian glass production and
presented the company at the first world exhibitions. In 1864 he was a co -founder of the k. k. Austrian Museums of Art and Industry in Vienna (today: Museum of Applied Arts - Mak). Ludwig's nephew Stefan Rath sen. Lobmeyr led to modernity and in 1912 together with Hoffmnn co -founder of the Austrian Werkbund, to which Josef Hoffmann belonged until 1920. With Josef Hoffmann and the artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, classics, drinking glasses and Lusters were created during this time, some of whom are still produced by Lobmeyr today. The articles were also sold through the branches of the Vienna Werkstätte. The Nazi era survived Josef Hoffmann despite hostility by the Nazi architecture ideologist Paul Schmitthenner unscathed. He was commissioned by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts to further develop the Vienna Handicrafts Association (an Nazi successor organization of the Austrian Werkbund) as the artistic director. For this purpose, an “artistic experiment” was founded in 1941, in which young artisans were able to continue their training under Hoffmann's instructions. After the Second World War, in 1948, Hoffmann founded the Austrian workshops as the successor to Wiener Werkstätte und Werkbund (ÖWB) - and once again designed for Lobmeyr. A grinded crystal vase like the one shown here was carried out by J. & L. Lobmeyer on behalf of the Ministry of Education for the Triennale in 1954. Hoffmann's tombstone was designed by Fritz Wotruba.

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