Josef Hoffmann
Front Room Bench, c.1898
87 x 111 x 42 cm
34 1/4 x 43 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
34 1/4 x 43 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
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Very rare early work by Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956). Created the year after he co-founded the Vienna Secession, this piece belongs to a pivotal moment in the movement’s formation. Hoffmann established...
Very rare early work by Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956). Created the year after he co-founded the Vienna Secession, this piece belongs to a pivotal moment in the movement’s formation. Hoffmann established the Vienna Secession alongside Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich and Otto Wagner, and alongside a broader group of progressive artists and designers whose vision shaped the emergence of an Art Nouveau-adjacent aesthetic in Vienna.
Provenance
Private Collection, UKExhibitions
Decorative Arts and Design Acquisition Committee (DA2), 2015Literature
Ludwig Abels, "Interieur-Kunst," Das Interieur: Wiener Monatsheft für Wohnungsausstattung und Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1900, p. 50Daniele Baroni and Antonio d'Auria, Josef Hoffmann e la Weiner Werkstätte, Milan, 1981, p. 20