04/01/2004
Josef Hoffmann:
An avant-garde architect-designer who, along with Koloman Moser, founded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. His and Moser’s design principles of simple elegance, modernity and functionality came to epitomize the Wiener Werkstätte aesthetic.
Koloman
Moser: An avant-garde artist-designer who cofounded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903 along with Josef Hoffmann, and who, like Hoffmann, was skilled in a variety of media.
Dagobert Peche:
A designer of furniture, jewelry, metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles and wallpaper whose playful, neo-Baroque designs brought a new freshness to the Wiener Werkstätte aesthetic after World War I.
Berthold Loffler:
A graphic designer also noted for his jewelry and ceramics who, with Michael Powolny, cofounded the Wiener Keramik (Vienna Ceramic) workshops in 1906.
Vally Wieselthier:
A postwar ceramicist whose creations span the boundaries between utility and fine art sculpture.
Otto Prutscher:
Designed glass, fabric, bookbindings, leatherwork, furniture, silver and metalwork for the Wiener Werkstätte, but also worked under license for other manufacturers.
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