Onbekend - Dagobert Peche - Einer Auswahl Seiner Werke 1925 - 1925

Dagobert Peche - A Selection of His Works 1925

Rare antiquarian edition about an important designer of the Wiener Werkstätte!!

Dagobert Peche, born on April 3, 1887, in St. Michael im Lungau, Austria-Hungary, and died on April 16, 1923, in Mödling, was an Austrian artist. He is considered the most imaginative representative of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Dagobert Peche, like his two-year-older brother Ernst, was born in St. Michael im Lungau and spent his childhood in Oberndorf near Salzburg. After high school in Salzburg, he moved to Vienna and studied at the Technical University of Vienna from 1906 to 1910.
From 1908 to 1911, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.
After a study trip to England, the influence of the pure black-and-white technique of the graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) was decisive for his further development and was visible in small-scale and incidental prints. Awarded the Gold Medal and three prizes in 1911, he was able to spend two months in Paris in 1912 thanks to the Prix de Rome.
The publisher Alexander Koch (1860-1939) in Darmstadt, who recognized Peche's exceptional talent, enabled him to publish in the magazine Kunst und Dekoration. Here, Peche proved himself as the ornamentalist who always found the appropriate form and breathed new life into the stagnating arts and crafts of his time. His creative imagination, which prioritized ornamental form over functional form, revitalized all applied arts.
He discovered new possibilities for decorative design for every material and technique: in the wallpaper industry and textile printing, in lace-making and embroidery through attractive fabric patterns and colors. Goldsmithing and ivory carving, mirror frames and furniture design, ceramics and metalware, the paper industry, and fashion were also influenced by his design style. An example from this period is his pearwood cabinet for a reception area at the 45th Secession exhibition in 1913, now housed in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
His talent truly blossomed when Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) recruited him in 1915 to work artistically at the Wiener Werkstätte. Peche became known for his love of playful objects without utilitarian function, extravagant luxury items, and the whimsical inventiveness underlying his designs.
In 1916, after the successful organization of the Vienna Fashion Exhibition of 1915/16, he took over the Zurich branch of the Wiener Werkstätte. There, a stylistic shift occurred, characterized by more rhythm and movement, an enrichment of floral and leaf decorations, influenced by rococo and Chinese brush drawings.
Returning to the company's headquarters in Vienna in 1920, he successfully participated in the art exhibitions of 1920 and 1921. For the section of the Vienna International Exhibition, held for the first time in the Imperial Stables from September 11, 1921, Peche designed the exhibition stand for the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1922, he exhibited his wallpaper designs, created at Flammersheim & Steinmann in Cologne, at the Messe Munich.
In 1922, Peche began to suffer from declining health, having spent years unable to find a livable, dry apartment in Vienna for himself and his family. His condition worsened rapidly, and he died on April 16, 1923, in Mödling, where friends had offered him a habitable dwelling shortly after his 36th birthday. Dagobert Peche was buried on April 20, 1923, at the Hietzing cemetery.

Very good condition for age (1925).

Important document with more images than current books about the Wiener Werkstätte. (see photos)

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