Tray
1905 (designed and made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Josef Hoffman studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Carl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner and was influenced by their theories of a functional, modernist architecture. After winning the Rome prize in 1895 and joining Wagner's office, he established his own office in 1898 and taught at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule from 1899 to 1936. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, an avant-garde group of artists and architects. In 1903 he founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser. Hoffman's earliest works reflect the Vienna Secession's variant of Art Nouveau and his later work shows a pioneering use of geometric and abstract design. His most famous building, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, built 1905-1911, exemplifies the ideal of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or 'total work of art'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | White painted metal |
| Brief description | White metal tray, designed by Josef Hoffmann and made by Wiener Werkstätte, 1905. |
| Physical description | Tray of white painted metal, the base a circular disc with a narrow rim of pierced latticework and a rolled edge, the supporting feet, four strips of pierced latticework placed equidistantly round the underside of the tray and braced at the base by four, concave strips of pierced latticework. |
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| Production type | small batch |
| Marks and inscriptions | Painted mark of Weiner Werkstätte. (In the middle of the underside of the base.) |
| Historical context | An example of this design was shown in the exhibition 'Vienna, A Birthplace of 20th Century Design, Part 1, 1900-1905, Purism and Functionalism, "Konstruktiver Jugendstil"', catalogue no. 34, illustrated p.30, at Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, in 1981. Also in the exhibition 'Darmstadt, Ein Dokument Deutscher Kunst, 1901-1976, Band 2, Kunst und Dekoration 1851-1914' at the Hessisches Landesmuseum, 1976-77, catalogue no. 246, illustrated p. 142. |
| Summary | Josef Hoffman studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Carl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner and was influenced by their theories of a functional, modernist architecture. After winning the Rome prize in 1895 and joining Wagner's office, he established his own office in 1898 and taught at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule from 1899 to 1936. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, an avant-garde group of artists and architects. In 1903 he founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Koloman Moser. Hoffman's earliest works reflect the Vienna Secession's variant of Art Nouveau and his later work shows a pioneering use of geometric and abstract design. His most famous building, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, built 1905-1911, exemplifies the ideal of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or 'total work of art'. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.83-1984 |
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| Record created | December 21, 2007 |
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