DOI Heft:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Macfarlane, Cecil: An italian sculptor: Leonardo Bistolfi
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: The ''Wiener Werkstätte'', Vienna
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0209
The " Wiener Werkstatte " Vienna
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.
T
HE WIENER WERKSTATTE,
VIENNA. By A. S. LEVETUS.
designers
and crafts-
men, by cre-
ating good
and simple
househ old
effects, uti-
lity being
the first prin-
ciple, our
"le reve " by leonardo bistolfi Strength tO
(In the Cemetery, Milan) jje jn the
right pro-
specialist in one branch of art; his art is rather portions and
the outcome of his many other high qualities, right treat-
A highly-cultured man, in active sympathy with ment of the
all the busy life around him, his artistic talents material,
and experience express themselves in many decoration
different ways. It is greatly due to his un- being intro-
ceasing efforts that Turin has become one of duced when
the most important musical centres of Italy, practicable,
Beautifully designed book-bindings, frontis- but never
pieces, illustrations, medals and plaques: small forced or
works requiring time and application, are his over-load-
free tributes to friendship, to merit, or to an ed."j It is
idea. His life is one long record of disin- registered
terested devotion in the service of art, and a as an " un-
steady pursuit of his high ideals regardless of limited "lia-
criticism. bility com
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 contact between the public and
flower vase designed by prof.
otto prutscher, executed by
A certain weak imitation of Bistolfi's manner pany. Each the wiener werkstatte
187
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.
T
HE WIENER WERKSTATTE,
VIENNA. By A. S. LEVETUS.
designers
and crafts-
men, by cre-
ating good
and simple
househ old
effects, uti-
lity being
the first prin-
ciple, our
"le reve " by leonardo bistolfi Strength tO
(In the Cemetery, Milan) jje jn the
right pro-
specialist in one branch of art; his art is rather portions and
the outcome of his many other high qualities, right treat-
A highly-cultured man, in active sympathy with ment of the
all the busy life around him, his artistic talents material,
and experience express themselves in many decoration
different ways. It is greatly due to his un- being intro-
ceasing efforts that Turin has become one of duced when
the most important musical centres of Italy, practicable,
Beautifully designed book-bindings, frontis- but never
pieces, illustrations, medals and plaques: small forced or
works requiring time and application, are his over-load-
free tributes to friendship, to merit, or to an ed."j It is
idea. His life is one long record of disin- registered
terested devotion in the service of art, and a as an " un-
steady pursuit of his high ideals regardless of limited "lia-
criticism. bility com
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 contact between the public and
flower vase designed by prof.
otto prutscher, executed by
A certain weak imitation of Bistolfi's manner pany. Each the wiener werkstatte
187