Vase
1905 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Josef Hoffmann 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. Hoffmann'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
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Iron, painted white |
| Brief description | Vase, iron, painted white. Vienna, 1905, made by Wiener Werkstätte, designed by Josef Hoffmann. |
| Physical description | Vase, iron painted white, the glass liner missing. The base is a square sheet of metal with a circular hole cut through the centre. The sides are long rectangular pieces of sheet metal, strengthened with wire reinforcing along the upper edge. Each side is pierced with a square perforations forming a rectangular lattice work pattern. The handles, bridging two opposite sides and attached to their centre, continue in the same plane as a narrow strip of metal with a single row of perforations repeating those found of the main body of the vessel. The length of each side of the handle is just under that of each of the four sides. The top of the handle runs parallel to the base of the vessel, and is thus at right angles to each of the two sides. Again the exposed edges are rolled over and reinforced with wire. |
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| Production type | small batch |
| Summary | Josef Hoffmann 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. Hoffmann'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.14-1982 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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