Research Catalog

Title

Textiles of the Wiener Werkstätte, 1910-1932 / Angela Völker with the collaboration of Ruperta Pichler.

Author

Völker, Angela.

Publication

New York : Rizzoli, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Pichler, Ruperta, 1962-
• Wiener Werkstätte.
• Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst.

Description

256 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

• The textile department of the Wiener Werkstatte was formally established c.1910, seven years after the inauguration of this many-faceted association of artists and craftsmen.
• The demand for mostly printed fabrics for use by the fashion department, in interior decoration schemes for well-to-do clients and for sale to the public was met by original designs from around 100 artists, including the association's co-founder Josef Hoffmann and other leading figures such as Dagobert Peche, Carl Otto Czeschka, Maria Likarz and Max Snischek. This proliferation of creativity gave rise to one of the most remarkable legacies of modern textile design.
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• Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte, 1910-1932 presents selections from the original gouache drawings, pattern books and about 20,000 samples now in the collection of the Austrian Museum for applied Arts, Vienna - a truly remarkable archive of most of the over 1,800 recorded fabric designs.
• These range from the early rounded naturalistic motifs of Art Nouveau to later angular geometric designs associated with Art Deco, their history and development being fully documented in invaluable archival and documentary records.
• A wealth of reproductions, many in colour, are supplemented by an exhaustive catalogue and a concordance of artists and pattern names, as well as contemporary photographs of the uses of printed and woven textiles in fashion and interior decoration, both private and public, including exhibition pavilions and the Wiener Werkstatte's own showrooms.
• The patterns and prints of the Wiener Werkstatte were among the most popular and successful textile designs of the early twentieth century, reflecting both the tastes of Viennese society and general trends towards artistic abstractionism. They are now presented in an unparalleled compilation, drawing on the most comprehensive collection of Wiener Werkstatte designs in existence.

Uniform Title

Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte, 1910-1932. English

Alternative Title

Stoffe der Wiener Werkstätte, 1910-1932.

Subject

• Wiener Werkstätte > Catalogs
• Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst > Catalogs
• Textile fabrics > Vienna > History > 20th century > Catalogs
• Textile fabrics > Vienna > Catalogs

Note

• Catalog of the fabrics and visual displays of fabric samples at the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-256).

Contents

The Wiener Werkstatte: An Outline of its Background History and Archival and Other Evidence of its Artistic and Business Activities -- Questions of Dating and the Sequence of Pattern Names and Numbers -- A New Interest: Fabric Designs Before the Establishment of the Wiener Werkstatte's Own Textile Department -- The Beginnings of the Wiener Werkstatte's Own Textile Department -- Style and Forms of the Early Period -- Wiener Werkstatte Textiles in the War Years 1914 to 1918 -- The Twenties -- Forms and Locations of Production -- Examples of Use -- Sales Policy and Customers -- The Most Significant Artists -- Wiener Werkstatte Fabrics: International Resonances -- Catalogue of Artists and Patterns -- Concordance of Pattern Names and Designers.

ISBN

0847817644

LCCN

93000861

OCLC

• 27812775
• ocm27812775

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries