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JOSEF HOFFMANN* (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)

Bundle of 6 sketches for the Seccesion building
Green area, Secession
indian ink/paper 29,5 x 20,9 cm
studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
Depicted in catalogue Josef Hoffmann 1870 - 1956. Fortschritt durch Schönheit, MAK, 2021, p. 416
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna
Entrance hall, Secession
indian ink and pencil/paper 28 x 21,2 cm
inscribed GARDEROBE, studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
Depicted in catalogue Josef Hoffmann 1870 - 1956. Fortschritt durch Schönheit, MAK, 2021, p. 416
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna
Interior reconstruction Viennese Secession
indian ink und pencil/paper 21 x 27,8 cm
studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
Depicted in catalogue Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956. Fortschritt durch Schönheit, MAK, Vienna 2021, p. 423, fig. 11
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna
Garden design Viennese Secession
indian ink and pencil/paper 29,5 x 41,7 cm
verso studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna
Groundfloor Viennese Secession
Print and pencil/paper 46,7 x 43,5 cm
verso studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna
Interior view Viennese Secession
indian ink and pencil/paper 29,6 x 29,6 cm
inscribed Ver Sacrum, studio stamp Josef Hoffmann
provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private property Vienna

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 16000 - 26000
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 16000

Josef Hoffmann, a student of Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism as an architect and designer. In 1903, together with Koloman Moser and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, he founded the Wiener Werkstätte (WW), 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 WW's most important designers until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstätte, also referred to as Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstätten, aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. Its customers were mainly artists and the upwardly mobile Jewish upper and middle classes. 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 Déco in the 1920s, e.g. Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser and Susi Singer. Josef Hoffmann survived the Nazi period 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), of which he had been a member until 1920. Hoffmann's gravestone was designed by Fritz Wotruba. Further artists and styles: Viennese Modernism, Art Nouveau, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Adolf Loos, Michael Powolny, Dagobert Peche, Oswald Haerdtl, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Carl Otto Czeschka, Vally Wieselthier, Johann Georg Platzer, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Friedrich von Amerling, Otto Wagner, Eduard Ameseder, Carl O'Lynch of Town, Richard Gerstl, Max Domenig, Robin Christian Andersen, Egon Schiele, Paul Kassecker, Hans Knesl, Heinz Leinfellner, Rudolf Hausner, Joannis Avramidis, Maximilian Melcher, Alfred Hrdlicka, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer, Dorit Margreiter, Herbert Boeckl, Josef Dobrowsky, Albert Paris Gütersloh
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