UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER Villa Primavesi in WinkelsdorfSilver ge...

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UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER
Villa Primavesi in Winkelsdorf
Silver gelatin deduction/paper, 27.5 x 38 cm
verso inscribed Villa Primavesi in Winkelsdorf, erbaut von Josef Hoffmann, Bauleiter: Architekt, Wilh. Jonasch 1912 - 1914
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private collection Vienna

ESTIMATE °€ 50 - 100
STARTING PRICE °€ 50

Josef Hoffmann, a student of Carl Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism as an architect and designer. Among others, he created representative residences for Carl Moll, Koloman Moser, Sigmund Berl, Eduard Ast, Sonja and Anton Knips, Robert Primavesi and his partner Josefine Skywa and his cousin Otto Primavesi. The Primavesis were a banker and industrialist dynasty in Olomouc, whom Hoffmann had met through the mediation of the sculptor Anton Hanak in connection with the 1911 International Art Exhibition in Rome, for which he had built the Austrian pavilion. For Otto and Eugenia Primavesi, close friends of Gustav Klimt, Hoffmann furnished a few rooms in their Olomouc townhouse and built a bank house in Olomouc as well as a villa in the Moravian village of Winkelsdorf (Kouty nad Desnou) in 1913/4. Hoffmann also designed the furnishings for the Winkelsdorf villa. The villa burned down in 1922. Commissioned by Robert Primavesi, Hoffmann adapted an older country house for Primavesi's partner Josefine Skywa and built the Skywa-Primavesi villa in Vienna-Hietzing from 1913 to 1915. In 1903 Hoffmann founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser and industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and influenced by Viennese Art Nouveau. Hoffmann remained one of the most important designers of the WW until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. 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, some of which are still produced by Lobmeyr today. Josef Hoffmann survived the Nazi era 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). Hoffmann's tombstone was designed by Fritz Wotruba.

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