€1,600
JOSEF HOFFMANN*
(Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
Candle stand draft for the Wiener Werkstätte
pencil and watercolor/paper, 20.9 x 28.3 cm
monogrammed JH
verso 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
The Wiener Werkstätte (WW) was founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and the industrialists Fritz Wandorfer based on the model of the British Arts and Crafts Movement and under the impression of the Viennese Art Nouveau. In 1905 the WW Carl Otto Czeschka recorded as a further designer (designer). Josef Hoffmann, student of Otto Wagner and as an architect and designer one of the central figures in Viennese modernity, remained one of the most important designers of the WW until the bankruptcy in 1932. He was u. friends with Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak. Otto Primavesi, Eugenia Primavesi and Robert Primavesi became significant WW. In connection with the Vienna School of Art and Vienna Secession, the community strived for a renewal of art based on craftsmanship. Vienna should become the center of the taste culture in the field of arts and crafts. The company, occasionally 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 1948 Josef Hoffmann founded the Austrian workshops as the successor to Wiener Werkstätte und Werkbund (ÖWB), to which he had belonged until 1920.
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