JOSEF HOFFMANN*(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)bundle of six des...

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€80,000

JOSEF HOFFMANN*
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
bundle of six designs of the reconstraction of the Vienna Secession
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna

23 -1 | Entrance hall of the Vienna Secession
Ink and pencil/paper, 28 x 21.2 cm
Labeled the wardrobe, stamped ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN
depicted in Exhibition catalog Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Progress through Beauty, MAK Vienna 2021, p. 416

23 -2 | Green area around Vienna Secession
Ink/paper, 29.5 x 21 cm
Double stamped ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN
depicted in Exhibition catalog Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Progress through Beauty, MAK Vienna 2021, p. 416

23 -3 | Ground floor plan of the Vienna Secession
print and pencil/paper, 46.7 x 43.5 cm
Monogrammed JH
verso stamped ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN

23 -4 | Interior view Wiener Secession
Ink and pencil/paper, 20.9 x 29.6 cm
inscribed ver sacrum, Stamped ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN

23 -5 | Garden design for the Vienna Secession
Ink and pencil/paper, 29.5 x 41.7 cm
monogrammed JH; scale 1: 100
verso stamped atelier ob. Baur. Prof. Arch. DR. H.C. JOSEPH Hoffmann

23 -6 | Interior reconstruction Vienna Secession
Pencil and ink/paper, 21 x 27.8 cm
stamp studio Hoffmann
Exhibited in Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. progress Through beauty, MAK Vienna 2021-2022.
depicted in Exhibition catalog Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Progress through Beauty, MAK Vienna 2021, p. 423, Fig. 11

ESTIMATE °€ 20.000 - 40.000
STARTING PRICE °€ 20.000

Josef Hoffmann, a student of Carl Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism as an architect and designer. In 1903, together with Koloman Moser and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte (WW), modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and influenced by Viennese Art Nouveau. Hoffmann, a friend of Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak, among others, remained one of the most important designers of the WW until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte, also referred to as Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstätten, aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in 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 the WW staff were about a dozen women who were crucial to the change in style from Art Nouveau to Art Deco in the 1920s, such as Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser, and Susi Singer. Together with Stefan Rath, the head of the glass manufacturer Lobmeyr, Josef Hoffmann founded the Österreichischer Werkbund (ÖWB) in 1912. Hoffmann designed numerous glasses and chandeliers for Lobmeyr during this period, some of which are still produced by Lobmeyr today. Josef Hoffmann survived the Nazi period unscathed despite hostility from the Nazi architectural ideologist Paul Schmitthenner. He was commissioned by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts to further develop the Vienna Arts and Crafts Association (a Nazi successor organization to the Austrian Werkbund) as its artistic director. To this end, an "artistic experimental institute" was founded in 1941, where young artisans could further their education under Hoffmann's guidance. After the war, in 1948, Hoffmann founded the Österreichische Werkstätten as the successor to the Wiener Werkstätte und Werkbund (ÖWB) and again designed for Lobmeyr. Whether the present design was executed for Lobmeyr is not certain. Hoffmann's gravestone was designed by Fritz Wotruba.


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