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Lot 103
WIENER WERKSTÄTTE
DIE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE 1903-1928. MODERNES KUNSTGEWERBE UND SEIN WEG, 25TH ANNIVERSARY SOUVENIR PUBLICATION, 1929; SOLD TOGETHER WITH MAX EISLER'S DAGOBERT PECHE, 1925 (TWO COPIES, ONE PAPERBACK, SECOND HARDCOVER WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY).
Closed8 March 2012
Price Realised
USD 3,000
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Specialist note
The cover is made from hand-embossed papier-maché on card.
Despite the acute financial difficulties facing the Wiener Werkstätte, a large jubilee celebration was undertaken to mark the 25th anniversary of its founding. The souvenir publication for this event was intended to illustrate the development of the Wiener Werkstätte and its products since 1903. The hand-embossed papier-maché covers and layout of the interior can be seen as a final example of the Gesamtkunstwerk by the Wiener Werkstätte. In the face of imminent failure, the Wiener Werkstätte nevertheless still managed to garner glowing reviews:
"What is new about this album .. is that every single page has been composed in accordance with specific artistic conceptions, and that colours - black, red, gold and silver - have been used in order to enliven these pages. As part of this, reproductions, text and all the white and coloured surfaces have been treated as elements of entirely equal visual value and have been harmoniously combines." (Article in Wiener Zeitung, 17 January, 1929)
Despite the acute financial difficulties facing the Wiener Werkstätte, a large jubilee celebration was undertaken to mark the 25th anniversary of its founding. The souvenir publication for this event was intended to illustrate the development of the Wiener Werkstätte and its products since 1903. The hand-embossed papier-maché covers and layout of the interior can be seen as a final example of the Gesamtkunstwerk by the Wiener Werkstätte. In the face of imminent failure, the Wiener Werkstätte nevertheless still managed to garner glowing reviews:
"What is new about this album .. is that every single page has been composed in accordance with specific artistic conceptions, and that colours - black, red, gold and silver - have been used in order to enliven these pages. As part of this, reproductions, text and all the white and coloured surfaces have been treated as elements of entirely equal visual value and have been harmoniously combines." (Article in Wiener Zeitung, 17 January, 1929)