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Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. The two Viennese found inspiration in Britain, where the Englishmen John Ruskin, William Morris, and Charles Robert Ashbee, and ...
The collection is comprised of six pieces, all in some way referential to the Viennese Secessionist movement. The idea behind ...
The Wiener Werkstätte was born out of the Vienna Secession – a group of avant-garde artists, designers and architects who banded together in 1897. Their cultural effect was radical.
Wiener Werkstätte mastered a wide spectrum of techniques, including leather inlaying, embossing, hand-gilding, and leather weaving. Beitel and Moser also developed a series of marbled papers, while ...
Wiener Werkstätte linocuts Posted by Julie L. Mellby on July 24, 2010 The Wiener Werkstätte or Vienna workshops were founded in 1903 with the backing of Fritz Wärndorfer to “make all facets of human ...
With Secessionist and Wiener Werkstätte museum shows from coast to coast this month, those renowned Vienna art and design movements are front and center in San Francisco and New York. Though the ...
But Wiener Werkstätte is actually one of the earliest 20th century’s most creative, and important, design workshops. Founded in 1903, Wiener Werkstätte, ...
The Wiener Werkstätte (WW), the applied art group founded in Vienna in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, had an illustrious customer base, according to an exhibition of book covers by WW ...
Appraisal: Wiener Werkstätte Silver Demitasse Set, ca. 1915, from Boston Hour 2.