International studio (46.1912)

Arts and Crafts at the Austrian Museum, Vienna


crafts again fell on evil days,
and the copying of old
forms entered on a fresh
lease of life. This was prac-
tically the state of things
when Hofrat von Scala
entered on his career of
office as director of the
museum in 1896. One of
the first things he did was
to arrange an exhibition of
English furniture and ap-
plied art, in which he showed
none but first-class work.

However, during the thirty years which
the opening of these sister institutes the

DESIGNED BY PROF. JOSEF
AND L. LOBMEYR

GREY GLASSWARE WITH BRONZITE DECORATION.
HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY J.

Coincident with this was
the founding of the “ Seces-
sion,” the way for both
followed having been paved by The Studio, whose propa-
arts and ganda had here begun to bear fruit. Josef



SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

DESIGNED BY PROF. OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY E. FRIEDMANN

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