DOI Heft:
No. 94 (December, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: An Austrian decorative artist: Koloman Moser
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0152
Koloman Moser
advantage of only in the abstract. What value can the most
this Koloman beautiful design have for every-day life, if the
Moser left the artist knows nothing of the method of applying it,
Academy for or the materials upon or in which it is to be
the Schools, a executed, or is ignorant of the technical elements
step which was in its manufacture? To put this theory into
to have great practice Professor Moser, when still a student,
influence on his spent six months at different glass-making establish-
future career; ments in Bohemia, a period which proved of the
for, already at greatest value not only to the artist himself, but
the first exhibi- also to manufacturers. The artist acknowledges
tion of the how much he himself owes to practical work,
students’ work, and the world sees the result in the beautiful,
his designs tall, slender-stemmed glasses manufactured by
attracted so Backalovitch of Vienna. These glasses, Pro-
much notice fessor Moser says with pride, can now be
both on the manufactured entirely in one piece instead of in
DESIGN FOR TEXTILE FABRIC
BY K. MOSER
EXECUTED BY BACKHAUSEN & SONS
part of the authorities and the public,
that he was offered an appointment
as assistant to Professor Match.
He promptly refused the position,
for it would have deprived him of
much valuable time. Two years
later he accepted the office of
Ordinary Professor at the Schools,
an appointment which he still
holds. His influence there is to be
seen in the number of students who
seek admission to his classes, and
already several of those who have
studied under him have begun to
make names for themselves.
Moser is one of the leaders of
the Vienna Secession. His creed
is the union of the artistic and
practical; but, in order to under-
stand how to bring about this union,
he fully recognises that the practical
side must be cultivated quite as much
as the purely artistic, for no amount
of designing, painting, and modelling
will make a real artist if treated
CABINET WITH DESIGNED BY KOLOMAN MOSER
MOVABLE INTARSIA EXECUTED BY PORTOIS AND FIX
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advantage of only in the abstract. What value can the most
this Koloman beautiful design have for every-day life, if the
Moser left the artist knows nothing of the method of applying it,
Academy for or the materials upon or in which it is to be
the Schools, a executed, or is ignorant of the technical elements
step which was in its manufacture? To put this theory into
to have great practice Professor Moser, when still a student,
influence on his spent six months at different glass-making establish-
future career; ments in Bohemia, a period which proved of the
for, already at greatest value not only to the artist himself, but
the first exhibi- also to manufacturers. The artist acknowledges
tion of the how much he himself owes to practical work,
students’ work, and the world sees the result in the beautiful,
his designs tall, slender-stemmed glasses manufactured by
attracted so Backalovitch of Vienna. These glasses, Pro-
much notice fessor Moser says with pride, can now be
both on the manufactured entirely in one piece instead of in
DESIGN FOR TEXTILE FABRIC
BY K. MOSER
EXECUTED BY BACKHAUSEN & SONS
part of the authorities and the public,
that he was offered an appointment
as assistant to Professor Match.
He promptly refused the position,
for it would have deprived him of
much valuable time. Two years
later he accepted the office of
Ordinary Professor at the Schools,
an appointment which he still
holds. His influence there is to be
seen in the number of students who
seek admission to his classes, and
already several of those who have
studied under him have begun to
make names for themselves.
Moser is one of the leaders of
the Vienna Secession. His creed
is the union of the artistic and
practical; but, in order to under-
stand how to bring about this union,
he fully recognises that the practical
side must be cultivated quite as much
as the purely artistic, for no amount
of designing, painting, and modelling
will make a real artist if treated
CABINET WITH DESIGNED BY KOLOMAN MOSER
MOVABLE INTARSIA EXECUTED BY PORTOIS AND FIX
I 12