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Wiener Werkstätte Designers
04/01/2004
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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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