Dit a4 boek, 'Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte' door Jane Kallir, biedt een uitgebreide analyse van de opkomst, bloei en ondergang van de Wiener Werkstätte. Het onderzoekt de buitengewone artistieke prestaties in elk facet van design en analyseert de complexe relatie tussen institutionele en educatieve structuren, intellectuele en sociale krachten die de leiders van de Werkstätte in staat stelden hun visuele idealen en stilistische idioom op de Europese elite en de wereld te imponeren. Het boek bevat 55 kleurenplaten en 195 zwart-witillustraties, wat het een waardevolle bron maakt voor liefhebbers van kunst en design uit deze periode.

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Jane Kallir's comprehensive work not only charts the rise, flowering and decay of the Wiener Werkstätte, but assesses its extraordinary artistic achievements in every branch of design. In so doing, the author analyzes for the first time the dense web of connections-institutional and educational, intellectual and social-that enabled the imaginative leaders of the Werkstätte to impress upon the Austrian elite and the world beyond their visual ideals and stylistic idiom.

-Carl E. Schorske

At the turn of the century, Vienna emerged as a great cultural center that stood at the forefront of developments in music, psychology and the natural sciences. Equally influential, and still tremendously popular today, are the designs of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops, a group that was at the heart of the city's cultural scene and whose collaborators included such luminaries as the architect Josef Hoffmann, the designer Koloman Moser, and the painters Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele. This guide to the arts and crafts of fin-de-siècle Vienna is an excellent introduction to their work in all media-architecture, furniture, ceramics and glass, silver, fashion and textiles, bookbinding, toys, and painting and the graphic arts-as well as a survey of the cultural development of this pivotal period.

With 55 color plates and 195 black and white illustrations.