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The Wiener Werkstätte (engl.: Vienna Workshop ), established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser, the architect Josef Hoffmann and the patron Fritz Waerndorfer, was a productive association in Vienna, Austria that brought together architects, artists, designers and artisans working in ceramics, fashion, silver, furniture ...
- 1903–1932
- art, interior decoration
- Public company
Vienna Workshops. Wiener Werkstätte, cooperative enterprise for crafts and design founded in Vienna in 1903. Inspired by William Morris and the English Arts and Crafts Movement, it was founded by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann with the goal of restoring the values of handcraftsmanship to an industrial society in which such crafts were dying.
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Dec 6, 2023 · Founding and aims. The Wiener Werkstätte (WW) grew out of the Vienna Secession, an organization formed in 1897 to offer artists greater aesthetic freedom and connection to wider European currents. Embracing the motto of “To Each Age its Art, to Art its Freedom,” Secession artists turned their back on the historical styles then dominant ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Figure 8.3. 5: Josef Hoffmann, Flatware, 1905, manufactured by the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna (The Museum of Modern Art) The same can be said for the silverware designed by Hoffmann for the WW. In contrast to the sleek and understated cutlery, earlier formal silver tableware, like this eighteenth-century tureen, looks fussy, overdone, and decadent.
A HISTORY. The Wiener Werkstätte was founded in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, both of whom had been key members of the Vienna secession. The primary goal of the company was to bring good design and craft into all areas of life within the fields of ceramics, fashion, silver, furniture, and the graphic arts.
Wiener Werkstätte. The declared objective of the "Wiener Werkstätte" (1903-1932) was to penetrate everyday life with artistic and aesthetic high-quality products. Its trendsetting designs left a lasting mark on design history; the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna holds its archive and presents its oeuvre in a comprehensive collection.
The Wiener Werkstätte community of artisans, artists, and designers, for example, played an important role in the cultural (r)evolution around 1900 in Vienna. Pioneers in merging art, design and utility in numerous aspects of daily life. Associated with many top names (Hoffman, Moser, Klimt and others)
