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Wiener Werkstatte jewelry.(Current and coming)(jewelry exhibition)
More than forty fabulous pieces of jewelry created between 1903 and 1920 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Dagobert Peche, and other members of the Wiener Werkstatte are the focus of an exhibition now open at the Neue Galerie in New York City. Hoffmann and Moser, the workshop's artistic co-founders, were inspired by the writings of William Morris and subscribed to the arts and crafts ideal of exceptionally well-made objects designed by artists and made by specialized craftsmen. They believed that jewelry, examples of which were among the first objects they created, should be valued for its artistic merit and not solely for its monetary value. Nevertheless, their works were extravagant and intended for a select market. As Hoffmann once said, "Since it is not possible to work for the whole market, we will concentrate on those who can afford it."
The first pieces of jewelry created in the workshops, such as the one pictured above, relied heavily on the grid and other simple geometric forms. By the outbreak of World War I, a generation of new designers began to have an impact, creating more idiosyncratic, free-spirited designs ...
- Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte, 1910-1932.
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley April 1, 2005 700+ words
Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte, 1910-1932 by Angela Volker New York: Thames & Hudson, distributed by WW Norton, $40 paperback 254 pages, 417 illustrations (304 color) This lavishly illustrated...
- Wiener Werkstatte's artists gave beauty to simple items
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Mary Sherman August 26, 1988 700+ words
...early 1900s. The artists of the Wiener Werkstatte, as member Josef Hoffman explained...attributed to particular artists of the Wiener Werkstatte are rare, the gallery has a number...office. More evident are works of the Wiener Werkstatte that cannot be ascribed to a particular...
- Objectively speaking.(exhibition of work of Dagobert Peche, New York City;...
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary October 15, 2002 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Austria's artistic...Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte," the first major...in 1911 joined the Wiener Werkstatte, a design collective...the founders of the Wiener Werkstatte, once described as...
- Streamlined silver in Vienna.(Current and coming/"Viennese Silver: Modern...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Ledes, Allison Eckardt October 1, 2003 700+ words
...and simple lines. The show opens at the Neue Galerie in New York City on October 17 and comprises nearly two hundred objects...clients' interiors in the Biedermeier style. Finally, the Wiener Werkstatte (founded by. Hoffmann and others in 1903) produced exquisite...
- Glass of the avant-garde comes to the big apple. (New York).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Art Business News March 1, 2002 700+ words
...Hewitt, National Design Museum Address: 2 East 91st Street New York, NY Phone: (212) 849-8400 Web site: www.si.edu...geometrically-patterned glass. "The Later Work of the Wiener Werkstatte" celebrates Viennese glass after 1915 and is marked by a...
- Alfred Kubin: mirror to a world gone awry: presented at the Neue Galerie in New...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Adlmann, Jan Ernst February 1, 2009 700+ words
...Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, or the design production of the Wiener Werkstatte. Today, we see Kubin's brooding apparitions not only...painting and the sophisticated decor of Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstatte. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like those artists he most admired...
- Louise Nicholson visits the Neue Galerie's latest triumph: four recreated...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Nicholson, Louise November 1, 2006 700+ words
...sounds. Although the rooms have most of their furniture, ceramics, glass and metalwork, much of it produced at the Wiener Werkstatte, of which Hoffmann was artistic director, the wall and floor coverings are often known only from archival black-and...
- Decorative Arts Extravaganza Bursts With Excess.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) December 9, 2002 700+ words
...Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte at the Neue Galerie New York. Don't be put...Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte. This is a big...Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte remains on view at the Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Avenue...
