Studio: international art (52.1911)

The " Wiener Werkstatte" Vienna

gold necklace set with semi-precious stones

designed by prof. josef hoffmann, executed by the wiener werkstatte

original in his artistic conceptions. His lines Imperial Arts and Crafts School, is a lighter
are severe, his construction pre-eminently logi- one, though he is in every way a fine artist,
cal, his ornament is never meaningless but His temperament is that of the true Viennese,
everywhere rightly adjusted to the object to joyous, earnest, rhythmical, and he is endowed
be decorated. He values the material at its with a developed sense of beauty. He favours
true—that is, its intrinsic—worth. His great figural elements in ornament but does not dis-
aim has always been to restore the connection dain other forms. Though one of the original
with the culture of the past which was broken founders of the Werkstatte, he has lately
when the age of machinery let loose a flood resigned as an active member and is now
of ugliness. He is a professor of the Vienna devoting himself to decorative painting and
Imperial Arts and

Crafts Schools, and is __________________

a pedagogue in the
best sense. He under-
stands the nature of
those with whom he
works, he admits of no
mere copying, his
teaching like his art
being based upon sound
principles. This
faculty it is that makes
him so fit to be the
artistic director of such
an undertaking as the
Wiener Werkstatte.
He is indefatigable in
his endeavours for the
welfare of his crafts-
men, and through his
personality succeeds
in evoking all that is
best in them. He has
been through the mill
himself, has known
hardships, and has a
sympathetic feeling for
the faults and foibles
of his fellow-men. His
craftsmen in their turn
influence him; their
earnestness and pure
love of labour is in-
fectious.

The vein of Kolo

Moser, who is also a entrance hall of a shooting box on the hochreit, lower Austria

professor at the Vienna s. designed by prof, josef hoffmann, executed by the wiener werkstatte

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