€2,100
JOSEF HOFFMANN*
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
Brasscatulle, Wiener Werkstätte
Brass, 6 x 12.7 x 11 cm
marked Wiener Werkstätte and JH (Josef Hoffmann)
provenance: private collection Vienna
ESTIMATE °€ 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 1.000
The Wiener Werkstätte (WW) was founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and industrialists Fritz Waerndorfer, modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and influenced by Viennese Art Nouveau. In 1905, WW accepted Carl Otto Czeschka as another creator (designer). Josef Hoffmann, a student of Otto Wagner and one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism in his role as an architect and designer, remained one of WW's most important designers until its bankruptcy in 1932. He was a friend of Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak, among others. Otto Primavesi, Eugenia Primavesi and Robert Primavesi became important donors to the WW. In connection with the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and the Vienna Secession, the community strove for a renewal of art based on craftsmanship. Vienna was to become the center of excellence in the field of arts and crafts. The company, sometimes referred to as Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstätten, aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in terms of design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. Its customers were mainly artists and the upwardly mobile Jewish upper and middle classes. Josef Hoffmann's acquaintance with Berta Zuckerkandl led to the first major commission: the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, planned by Viktor Zuckerkandl, Berta's brother-in-law, west of Vienna. Among WW's employees were about a dozen women who were crucial to the change in style from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in the 1920s, e.g. Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser and Susi Singer. In 1948 Josef Hoffmann founded the Österreichische Werkstätten as the successor to the Wiener Werkstätte and Werkbund (ÖWB), of which he had been a member until 1920.
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