JOSEF HOFFMANN* (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)

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• Lot Description
  JOSEF HOFFMANN*
  (Pirnitz 1870 - 1956 Vienna)
  Ornamental composition
  indian ink and pencil/paper, 41.8 x 29.6 cm
  monogrammed JH, assembled on paper
  verso stamp ATELIER OB. BAUR. PROF. ARCH. DR. h.c. JOSEF HOFFMANN, inscribed D/66
  provenance: Carla Hoffmann, private collection Vienna
  
  ESTIMATE #Euro 700 - 1.500
  STARTING PRICE #Euro 700
  
  Josef Hoffmann, a student of Otto Wagner, was one of the central figures of Viennese Modernism as an architect and designer. In 1903, together with Koloman Moser and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, he founded the Wiener Werkstaette (WW), modeled on the British Arts and Crafts Movement and under the influence of Viennese Art Nouveau. Hoffmann, a friend of Gustav Klimt and Anton Hanak, among others, remained one of the WW's most important designers until its bankruptcy in 1932. The Wiener Werkstaette, also referred to as Wiener Werkstatt, Vienna Workshop, Wiener Werkstaetten or Wiener Werkstaetten, aimed to unite the entire spheres of human life in design, in the sense of a Gesamtkunstwerk. Its customers were mainly artists and the upwardly mobile Jewish upper and middle classes. Josef Hoffmann's acquaintance with Berta Zuckerkandl led to the first major commission: the Purkersdorf Sanatorium, planned by Viktor Zuckerkandl, Berta's brother-in-law, west of Vienna. Among the WW staff were about a dozen women who were crucial to the change in style from Art Nouveau to Art Déco in the 1920s, e.g. Vally Wieselthier, Gudrun Baudisch, Reni Schaschl, Hilda Jesser and Susi Singer. Josef Hoffmann survived the Nazi period unscathed despite hostility from the Nazi architectural ideologist Paul Schmitthenner. He was commissioned by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts to further develop the Vienna Arts and Crafts Association (a Nazi successor organization to the Austrian Werkbund) as its artistic director. To this end, an "artistic experimental institute" was founded in 1941, where young artisans could further their education under Hoffmann's guidance. After the war, in 1948, Hoffmann founded the oesterreichische Werkstaetten as the successor to the Wiener Werkstaette und Werkbund (oeWB), of which he had been a member until 1920. Hoffmann's gravestone was designed by Fritz Wotruba. The present composition is probably a design for a fabric for a wallpaper. Along with Andy Warhol, Hoffmann would thus be one of the few great artists of the 20th century to have designed wallpapers.
  
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