![]() Two Big Jugendstil Wall Lamps With Cut Glass, Vienna, Circa 1910s. In 1902, Hoffmann – creator of Austria’s Sanatorium Purkersdorf and the proto-modernist Kubus chair – travelled to Glasgow specially in order to see Mackintosh. 9 C1910s Matchbox Safety Matches Labels Solo Vienna - Made In Austria 1910s Vienna. Secessionist artists designers and architects such as Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser all went on to acknowledge some debt to the prevailing Glasgow School, created by Mackintosh and co. Mackintosh’s work won admiration from the exhibition organisers. The room designed by Mackintosh and his wife, was a great success and influenced other designers. The aim was to introduce to Vienna the work of some of the foremost designers in Europe. founded the Wiener Werksttte in 1903 with fellow Vienna Secession member. To this end, the city’s creative class invited all sorts of new styles of expression to their city, including the Scottish architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh who by 1900 had established his own distinct style, drawing together influences from Japan, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Glasgow to create a Scottish take on Art Nouveau.Īt the eighth Secession exhibition, 3 November – 27 December 1900, Mackintosh was invited to create and display an entire room. 1916 Josef Hoffmann Adolf Meyers Neffen Glass blown and cut 5 x 3 x 3 Josef. The makers mark is rubbed.Įager to break or ‘secede’ from the conservative institutions that had dictated the direction of Austrian art for decades, the group of Artists who initiated the Vienna Secession in 1897 shared little stylistically, but were united by a desire to reinvigorate the traditions of Austria’s official academies. The silver is marked with the German silver mark is stamped 800 and numbered 495. ![]() The silver basket is very finely detailed with Glasgow Rose style flowers and stands on 4 shaped feet. The original glass liner is very finely detailed and engraved with a design of rose flowers and leaves and has a star cut base. ![]() A beautiful German secessionist silver basket with glass liner. ![]()
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