Specialties

Founders

• Josef Hoffmann
• Koloman Moser
• Both were teachers as the Kunstgewerbeschule.
• Influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris, embracing the Arts & Crafts Movement.
• Followed the philosophy of Gesamtkunstwerk – Total Work of Art.

Wiener Werkstätte e.1903

• Artisan Alliance arising from the Vienna Secession.
• Based on C.R. Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft.
• Workers were highly trained & skilled.

Materials

• Silver
• Gilt
• Enamel
• Semi-Precious Stones (diamonds, rubies and emeralds were forbidden)

Aesthetic

• Simple
• Defined shape – often squarish
• Before Peche influence – adherence to form, following Peche – fluidity.

Produced a variety of goods.

• Metalwork
• Leatherwork
• Ceramics
• Jewelry
• Often marked by the designer, the craftsman and Wiener Werkstätte.

Jewelry Artisans included:

• Karl Hagenauer
• Carl Czeschka
• Josef Hoffman
• Berthold Loffler, 1907
• Franz Metzner
• Koloman Moser
• Dagobert Peche
• Otto Prutscher, 1908
• Max Snischeck
• Josef Urban
• Josef Wimmer
• Julius Zimpel