Two divergent paths illustrate Viennese decorative artists’ paths to Modernism: one is examplified by the member so the Wiener Werkstatte (Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser and Dagobert Peche) and their design to create a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, and the other by the strict formalism of Adolf Loss.
The Neue Galerie’s current exhibition “Vienna 1900: Style and Identity” includes furniture, textiles and art that embody each philosophy, from the Werner Werkstatte’s attempts to make great design available to the masses to Josef Loos’ more formal approach.
Through June 27. For more information, please visit www.neuegalerie.org
Image courtesy Neue Galerie.
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