Christian Brandstätter - Designer der Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932 - 2003

Designer of the Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932

Contents see photo 3.

Excellent condition.

450 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations.

Important and extensive document of an important art movement in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Carefully packaged with track and trace and insured shipping.

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"The Wiener Werkstätte represents the apex of 20th-century craftsmanship. Soon after the turn of the century, the Wiener Werkstätte established the aim of uniting clean and applied arts — function and form — into a single, coherent whole. The objective was to permeate every aspect of life with art, so that even the most everyday objects of daily use were crafted with aesthetic care. The result was, in the true sense of the word, a *Gesamtkunstwerk* (total artwork) — a concept that is aptly expressed in the preserved Palais Stoclet in Brussels, the principal integral creation of the international *Jugendstil* (Art Nouveau) movement. The team led by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, together with their collaborators, covered every imaginable field of design. In addition to furniture, they designed tableware, metalwork, ceramics, glass, books, posters, postcards, wallpaper, stationery and commercial printing; they even ventured into jewelry, textiles and — very lucrative — *haute couture*.
This book presents exemplary designs from the leading contributors — including Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka, Bertold Löffler, Michael Powolny, Vally Wieselthier, Eduard Josef Wimmer and Otto Lendecke, as well as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka — and thus offers a representative overview of all their creative disciplines".