Le 9 opere più famose di Josef Hoffmann

Abito da donna per un ballo in maschera

Nel crepuscolo scintillante dell'età d'oro di Vienna, pochi oggetti catturano la magia effimera di un'epoca passata con tanta intensità come l'Abito da donna per un ballo in maschera di Josef Hoffmann. Creato intorno al 1910, questo capo è molto più di un semplice indumento; è un manifesto indossabile del movimento della Secessione Viennese. Progettato per Johanna Wittgenstein, una donna al cuore dell'aristocrazia culturale viennese, l'abito funge da ponte mozzafiato tra…

Tea Service

The tea service which consists of a samovar, a teapot, a cream jug, and a sugar bowl belongs to the earliest objects made in the Wiener Werkstätte. These pieces of work are characterized by the geometrical contours of the objects. Cubes and squares are essential artistic elements which are a feature of Hoffmann’s style in the early beginnings. Only very few decorations were applied. Frequently, the hammer blows from the…

Vase

Chair - Nr. 511

Spilla

Nel delicato intreccio di luce e colore, la Spilla di Josef Hoffmann emerge come una testimonianza mozzafiato dell'alba del design moderno. Creata intorno al 1910, questo pezzo squisito è molto più di un semplice ornamento; è una finestra sull'anima dell'era della Wiener Werkstätte. L'opera presenta un ipnotico primo piano di maestria vetrazza, dove blu profondi e vellutati si scontrano con rossi vibranti e pulsanti. Al suo cuore, una candida lettera…

Vase

Vase designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1914. It is an example of the work of the Viennese artists who worked with glass and polished geometrical shapes and applies an architectural perspective to design. It was made by the Lötz Witwe Factory, the most renowned manufacturer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, situated in the south of Bohemia (current Czech Republic). It reflects the sober taste mixed with complicated technical processes, which were…

Stoclet Palace in Brussels

Vase

Josef Hoffmann’s vase for the glass manufactory Loetz readopts the Biedermeier decoration technique of Cameo glass. Here, several layers of multi-colored glass are applied and then partly removed again through engraving and etching. Blue milk glass with a green overlay, cut decor on etched ground with rough finish, on top foot-wide, vertical ribbons in green which continue on the body in a triangular pattern. In between one can see isolated…

Adjustable armchair - Sitzmaschine

The Viennese geometrical Jugendstil in furniture design was personified by the adjustable armchair Sitzmaschine (a machina for sitting), designed in 1905 by Josef Hoffmann, originally for the Westend Sanatorium in Purkersdorf near Vienna, and which in 1906 was manufactured as bent-wood furniture by J. & J. Kohn Company, under the catalogue number 669. Later several series were also produced by other manufacturers of bentwood furniture. The strict architecture of the…