DOI issue:
Nr. 171 (May, 1911)
DOI article:MacFarlane, Cecil: An Italian sculptor: Leonardo Bistolfi
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: The "Wiener Werkstätte", Vienna
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43446#0285
The cc VVrener JVerkstcltte” Vienna
“ LE REVE ” BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI
(Zw the Cemetery, Milan)
specialist in one branch of art; his art is rather
the outcome of his many other high qualities.
A highly-cultured man, in active sympathy with
all the busy life around him, his artistic talents
and experience express themselves in many
different ways. It is greatly due to his un-
ceasing efforts that Turin has become one of
the most important musical centres of Italy.
Beautifully designed book-bindings, frontis-
pieces, illustrations, medals and plaques : small
works requiring time and application, are his
free tributes to friendship, to merit, or to an
idea. His life is one long record of disin-
terested devotion in the service of art, and a
steady pursuit of his high ideals regardless of
criticism.
A certain weak imitation of Bistolfi’s manner
has sprung up in Italy which critics have called
“ the new Bistolfian school,” but the artist
denies the existence of any such school and for
the present the possibility of its existence. For
his technique is in constant evolution and his
works are the spontaneous and non-theoretic
creations of his own individual thought, con-
stantly swayed by the ever-moving impulses
of his artistic genius. C. M.
The “wiener werkstatte,”
VIENNA. By A. S. LEVETUS.
The “ Wiener Werkstatte ” was founded
in 1903 by Professors Josef Hoffmann, Kolo
Moser, and Herr Fritz Warndorfer, a man
of culture with a leaning towards modern art
and a capitalist to boot, these three being
joined later by Prof. C. O. Czeschka. It
is a productive society formed of artists and
craftsmen with aims and ideals in common.
The aims of the Wiener Werkstatte are, to
quote the words of Prof. Hoffmann, “to
form a close
designers
and crafts-
men, by cre-
ating good
and simple
househ o1d
effects, uti-
lity being
the first prin-
ciple, our
strength to
lie in the
right pro-
portions and
right treat-
ment of the
material,
decoration
being intro-
duced when
practicable,
but never
forced or
over - load-
ed.” It is
registered
as an un-
limited ” lia-
bility com-
pany. Each
contact between the public and
FLOWER VASE DESIGNED BY PROF.
OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY
THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
187
“ LE REVE ” BY LEONARDO BISTOLFI
(Zw the Cemetery, Milan)
specialist in one branch of art; his art is rather
the outcome of his many other high qualities.
A highly-cultured man, in active sympathy with
all the busy life around him, his artistic talents
and experience express themselves in many
different ways. It is greatly due to his un-
ceasing efforts that Turin has become one of
the most important musical centres of Italy.
Beautifully designed book-bindings, frontis-
pieces, illustrations, medals and plaques : small
works requiring time and application, are his
free tributes to friendship, to merit, or to an
idea. His life is one long record of disin-
terested devotion in the service of art, and a
steady pursuit of his high ideals regardless of
criticism.
A certain weak imitation of Bistolfi’s manner
has sprung up in Italy which critics have called
“ the new Bistolfian school,” but the artist
denies the existence of any such school and for
the present the possibility of its existence. For
his technique is in constant evolution and his
works are the spontaneous and non-theoretic
creations of his own individual thought, con-
stantly swayed by the ever-moving impulses
of his artistic genius. C. M.
The “wiener werkstatte,”
VIENNA. By A. S. LEVETUS.
The “ Wiener Werkstatte ” was founded
in 1903 by Professors Josef Hoffmann, Kolo
Moser, and Herr Fritz Warndorfer, a man
of culture with a leaning towards modern art
and a capitalist to boot, these three being
joined later by Prof. C. O. Czeschka. It
is a productive society formed of artists and
craftsmen with aims and ideals in common.
The aims of the Wiener Werkstatte are, to
quote the words of Prof. Hoffmann, “to
form a close
designers
and crafts-
men, by cre-
ating good
and simple
househ o1d
effects, uti-
lity being
the first prin-
ciple, our
strength to
lie in the
right pro-
portions and
right treat-
ment of the
material,
decoration
being intro-
duced when
practicable,
but never
forced or
over - load-
ed.” It is
registered
as an un-
limited ” lia-
bility com-
pany. Each
contact between the public and
FLOWER VASE DESIGNED BY PROF.
OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY
THE WIENER WERKSTATTE
187