UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER5 silver gelatin deductions on cardboard...

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€450

UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER
5 silver gelatin deductions on cardboard and 1 reproduction
Austrian pavilion, Int. Art exhibition, Rome 1911
partly stamped architect Professor Josef Hoffmann and various inscribed
provenance: Josef Hoffmann estate, Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna

31 -1 |Unknown photographer
The Austrian Pavilion during construction, Rome 1911
Reproduction of a photography, 22.8 x 17.3 cm

31 -2 | Unknown photographer
Austrian pavilion, Rome 1911
Silver gelatin deduction/cardboard, 21.8 x 17.2 cm
verso inscribed Rome 1912, Austrian pavilion

31 -3 |Unknown photographer
Austrian pavilion, Rome 1911
Silver gelatin deduction/cardboard, 16.5 x 12.5 cm

31 -4 | Unknown photographer
Austrian pavilion, Rome 1911
Silver gelatin deduction/cardboard, 19.5 x 19.3 cm
verso inscribed Rome 1912

31 -5 | Unknown photographer
Austrian pavilion, Rome 1911
silver gelatin deduction/cardboard, 13 x 12 cm

31 -6 | Unknown photographer
Austrian pavilion, Rome 1911
Silver gelatin deduction/cardboard, 39.5 x 49.5 cm

ESTIMATE °€ 500 - 600
STARTING PRICE °€ 400

Josef Hoffmann, a student of Carl Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese modernism as an architect and designer. The International Art Exhibition took place in Rome in 1911 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Kingdom of Italy. Hoffmann was responsible not only for the plans of the Austrian pavilion, which were characterized by classicist references, but also for its "interior decoration and the decorative principles of the arrangement of the works of art". In 1903 Hoffmann founded the Wiener Werkstätte (WW) with Koloman Moser and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and under the influence of 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 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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