Wiener Werkstätte
Country | |
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City | Vienna |
Symbol | cartouche, flower, frame, plant, rectangle, square |
Shape | cartouche, frame, rectangle, square |
Era | e.1897-1932 |
Description
Specialties
Founders
- Josef Hoffmann
- Koloman Moser
- Both were teachers as the Kunstgewerbeschule.
- Influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris, embracing the Arts & Crafts Movement.
- Followed the philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk – Total Work of Art.
Wiener Werkstätte e.1903
- Artisan Alliance arising from the Vienna Secession.
- Based on C.R. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft.
- Workers were highly trained & skilled.
Materials
- Silver
- Gilt
- Enamel
- Semi-Precious Stones (diamonds, rubies and emeralds were forbidden)
Aesthetic
- Simple
- Defined shape – often squarish
- Before Peche influence – adherence to form, following Peche – fluidity.
Produced a variety of goods.
- Metalwork
- Leatherwork
- Ceramics
- Jewelry
- Often marked by the designer, the craftsman and Wiener Werkstätte.
Jewelry Artisans included:
- Karl Hagenauer
- Carl Czeschka
- Josef Hoffman
- Berthold Loffler, 1907
- Franz Metzner
- Koloman Moser
- Dagobert Peche
- Otto Prutscher, 1908
- Max Snischeck
- Josef Urban
- Josef Wimmer
- Julius Zimpel