MARIA TLUSTY* (Vienna 1901 - 1954 Vienna)Crouching Woman, 19...

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€1,000 - €2,000

MARIA TLUSTY*
(Vienna 1901 - 1954 Vienna)
Crouching Woman, 1934
oil/canvas, 50 x 60 cm
signed M. Tlusty, dated 34, artist of the Wiener Werkstätte
provenance: private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE € 1.000 - 2.000
STARTING PRICE € 1.000

Maria Tlusty attended the Vienna School of Applied Arts (today: University of Applied Arts) and received the Eitelberger Prize awarded by the school in 1923. In the exhibition for the 60th anniversary of the School of Applied Arts, Tlusty was represented with the design for a goblin. After her education she worked as an enameller and painter for the Wiener Werkstätte. The latter entered the field with the aim of creating high-quality artistic handicrafts in all areas of everyday use - from furniture and architecture to porcelain, glass and fashion - in close contact between artist and consumer. It is the interdisciplinary claim to holistic penetration of all areas of life, as well as their forward-looking designs, with which the Wiener Werkstätte has written lasting design history. Its founder, the architect Josef Hoffmann, joined forces with the graphic artist and painter Koloman Moser and the industrialist and patron Fritz Waerndorfer in 1903 with the aim of establishing a marketable aesthetic counterposition to encrusted historicism. The customers were mainly artists and the up-and-coming 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, such as Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser, and Susi Singer. During National Socialism, Tlusty was a collaborator in Victor Theodor Slama's studio, where, together with Otto Trubel, she painted many film posters for the Viennese premier cinemas. These huge posters were placed on the outside facades of the cinemas and were hand-painted unique pieces. The close collaboration with Slama continued in the Second Republic. Tlusty was part of the core team on "Never Forget!" and other exhibition productions directed by Slama. In 1947 and 1948, Tlusty was awarded prizes in the poster competitions announced by the City of Vienna for the exhibits Works by Maria Tlusty for the Wiener Werkstätte are in the Museum of Applied Arts.


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