Wallpaper Design
c.1960 (made)
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Design for wall-paper of abstract linear forms in a grid system.Lettered in pencil on the back of the mount DESIGN BY JACQUELINE GROAG BOUGHT BY RASCH WALLPAPER and with the artis's address partially erased.Inscribed in pencil on the front of the mount with notes.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Photograph, bodycolour and Chinese white |
| Brief description | Jacqueline Groag. Wallpaper design for Rasch Wallpaper. Abstract linear forms in a grid. Photograph with touching-up to prepare for publication. |
| Physical description | Design for wall-paper of abstract linear forms in a grid system.Lettered in pencil on the back of the mount DESIGN BY JACQUELINE GROAG BOUGHT BY RASCH WALLPAPER and with the artis's address partially erased.Inscribed in pencil on the front of the mount with notes. |
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| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is taken from Galloway, Francesca, 'Post-War British Textiles'. Robert Marcuson Publishing, London, 2002:
"Jacqueline Groag, a Czech by birth, was a talented textile designer, as well-known and as influential as [Lucienne] Day in the 1950s; she continued designing textiles until the 1980s. Groag was a student of Josef Hoffmann and Franz Cizek in Vienna and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before moving to Paris in 1929. There she designed dress fabrics for Chanel, Schiaparelli and Lanvin. She married the architect and follower of Adolf Loos, Jacques Groag, whose preference for severe functionalism in architecture had some influence on her style. They moved to London in 1939 where her success must have been immediate given the number of textiles she designed for the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition at the V&A in 1946. The columnar design, launched by David Whitehead for the Festival of Britain in 1951, was adapted from an earlier design commissioned from Groag by the Rayon Design Centre in 1948." |
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| Accession number | E.592-1987 |
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| Record created | July 27, 2000 |
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