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Studio: international art — 55.1912

DOI issue:
No. 227 (February 1912)
DOI article:
Levetus, A. S.: Arts and crafts at the Austrian museum for art and industry, Vienna
DOI Page / Citation link: 
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0052

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Arts and Crafts at the Austrian Museum, Vienna

SILVER'TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

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

GREY GLASSWARE WITH BRONZITE DECORATION. DESIGNED BY PROF. JOSEF
HOFFMANN, EXECUTED BY J. AND L. LOBMEYR

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

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

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