Studio: international art (52.1911)

The " Wiener Werkstatte" Vienna

FLOWER VASE DESIGNED BY PROF.
OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY
THE WIENER WERKSTATTE

member has the right of acquiring one share
which costs two hundred Kronen, and for
which he may pay by ten equal monthly
payments. He may also purchase others,
with the consent of the executive, but
must pay for them in full at the time of
purchase. The prices of shares can only
be raised by the consent of the general
assembly of shareholders ; they may only
be disposed of on resignation of member-
ship and then only to another member, for
none but members of the "Werkstatte"
may be shareholders.

fJProf. Josef Hoffmann is the artistic director,
and around him are gathered a number of
Austria's best modern artists, such as Pro-
fessors Kolo Moser, C. O. Czeschka, Otto
Prutscher, Adolf Bohm, Berthold Loffler,
R. von Larisch, Edward Wimmer, Paul
Roller, Michael Powolny, Leopold Forstner,
and Alfred Roller, Director of the Vienna
Kunstgewerbe-.Schule, while amongst the
friends and sympathisers of the institution
are Gustav Klimt, Prof. Otto Wagner, Carl
Moll, Prof. Metzner, Prof. F. Lederer, W. F.
Jager, Anton Kling, Moritz Jung, Prof. Emil
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Orlik, Rosa Rothansel, Richard Taschner—
all Austrians, though professional duties have
called some of them to Germany.

Quite a large number of workshops are com-
prised in the Wiener Werkstatte. Besides an
architectural department, there are shops for
goldsmithing, jewellery, and all kinds of metal
work, bookbinding, ivory and wood-carving, and
shops for dressmaking and millinery where
models of art gowns and hats are fashioned.
These, together with the stock-rooms and busi-
ness offices, are under one roof. Cabinet-making,
carpentry and joinery are carried on elsewhere.
Ceramic articles are produced in the Wiener
Keramic-Werkstatte under Michael Powolny
and Prof. Berthold Loffler, mosaics in the
Wiener Mosaic-Werkstatte under Leopold
Forstner : the textile designs are executed by
Backhausen and Sons, and many other works
are in close connection with the W.W., as it
is familiarly called.

The architectural department of the Wiener
Werkstatte is a most important one. The
architect in charge of it, Paul Roller, studied
under Prof. Otto Wagner at the Imperial

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