Josef Hoffmann 'Aufsatz' centrepiece, model no. M sh 17 1925-1931 Chased and hammered brass. 18.6 x 29.8 x 18.4 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.) Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. Lip marked with artist’s monogram, WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE, and MADE/IN/AUSTRIA.
Literature Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna, 1903-1932, New York, 1984, p. 70 Peter Noever ed., Josef Hoffmann Designs, exh. cat., Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1992, p. 110, fig. 157 for a drawing, p. 172, fig. 268 Die Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1928: Modernes Kunstgewerbe und sein Weg, Munich, 1994, n.p. Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932, Cologne, 2003, p. 165 Peter Noever ed., Yearning for Beauty: The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 330, fig. (M 244) Catalogue Essay Josef Hoffmann's preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as inventory number K.I. 12059/9. Read More
Josef Hoffmann 'Aufsatz' centrepiece, model no. M sh 17 1925-1931 Chased and hammered brass. 18.6 x 29.8 x 18.4 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.) Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, Austria. Lip marked with artist’s monogram, WIENER/WERK/STÄTTE, and MADE/IN/AUSTRIA.
Literature Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna, 1903-1932, New York, 1984, p. 70 Peter Noever ed., Josef Hoffmann Designs, exh. cat., Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1992, p. 110, fig. 157 for a drawing, p. 172, fig. 268 Die Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1928: Modernes Kunstgewerbe und sein Weg, Munich, 1994, n.p. Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932, Cologne, 2003, p. 165 Peter Noever ed., Yearning for Beauty: The Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House, Ostfildern, 2006, p. 330, fig. (M 244) Catalogue Essay Josef Hoffmann's preparatory drawing for the present lot is registered at the MAK, Vienna as inventory number K.I. 12059/9. Read More
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