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DOI Heft:
No. 120 (February, 1907)
DOI Artikel:
Levetus, A. S.: The imperial arts and crafts school, Vienna
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0345

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The Imperial Arts and Crafts Schools, Vienna
spirit, for at present their
material worth has not
been recognised. Professor
Moser is a man who be-
lieves in practice first, then
preaching; and as he him-
self has learnt the practical
side of things by long
studying and working in
glass, weaving, and other
factories, so he advocates
this to his pupils; indeed,
in many cases in the
Kunstgewerbeschule those design for table cloth by e. fromel (prof, beyer’s class)



DESIGN FOR “WASH-BAND” BY W. TRUNECEK
(PROF, beyer’s CLASS)

modern art. A few years ago such a thing as
an artistic placard was unknown, and the illus-
trated books for children were more often
than not mere formless daubs. Now the lesson
has been learnt from others, particularly England;
but the spirit infused into them is Austrian, nay,
more, it is Viennese, for everything speaks of the
joyousness of Vienna life. Since Baron Myrbach’s
retirement, and Professor Roller’s appointment to
the Imperial Opera House, Professor Czeschka has
been entrusted with the office of teacher, and right
well is he fulfilling his task. He had good soil to
build upon ; his predecessors had planted firmly on
good ground and he had but to cultivate, but it is a
great and worthy task he has set himself to carry
out. At the exhibition the room devoted to the
work of his pupils was a source of great attraction,
for it presented a variety of excellent examples of

students are preferred who, besides possessing
artistic talent, have previously spent a year in
weaving or doing some other practical work.
Professor Beyer and Herr Schlechta’s class has
lately been reformed, and much good work has
been achieved in it by E. Fromel, W. Trunecek
and others. The wash-bands they have designed are
destined to tie up the linen, for here it is always kept
on shelves, each sort being neatly tied together by
ribbons or such bands as those reproduced, which
are washable. The effect is very good when doors
are opened wide, for in Austria the linen cupboard
is to the housewife what the china pantry is to
the Englishwoman.
Modern graphic art owes its inception, as has
been said, to Baron Myrbach and Professor Roller.
They put new life into dead matter, and owing to
them a new graphic art has grown up which
flourishes as assuredly as do the other branches of




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