3/17/2023 0 Comments Vienna secession josef hoffmannIn 1906, Hoffmann built his first great work on the outskirts of Vienna, the Sanatorium Purkersdorf. He designed many products for the Wiener Werkstätte of which designer chairs, most notably “Sitzmaschine” Chair, a lamp, and sets of glasses have reached the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and a tea service has reached the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoffmann’s style eventually became more sober and abstract and it was limited increasingly to functional structures and domestic products. With the banker Fritz Wärndorfer and the artist Koloman Moser he established the Wiener Werkstätte, which was to last until 1932. However, he soon left the Secession in 1905 along with other stylist artists due to conflicts with realist naturalists over differences in artistic vision and disagreement over the premise of Gesamtkunstwerk. He designed installation spaces for Secession exhibitions and a house for Moser which was built from 1901-1903. With the Secession, Hoffmann developed strong connections with other artists. In Wagner’s office, he met Joseph Maria Olbrich, and together they founded the Vienna Secession in 1897 along with artists Gustav Klimt, and Koloman Moser.īeginning in 1899, he taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. ![]() Thereafter he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner, graduating with a Prix de Rome in 1895. He studied at the Higher State Crafts School in Brno (Brünn) beginning in 1887 and then worked with the local military planning authority in Würzburg. Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. Hoffmann was born in Brtnice, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic). ![]()
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