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Josef Hoffmann’s birth place in Brtnice, Czech Republic, is a joint branch of the MAK and the Moravská galerie in Brno. The baroque townhouse was altered in 1907 by Hoffmann himself in the style of the “Wiener Moderne”. The aim is to reinstate Josef Hoffmann and his importance as an architect and designer in the public perception. The themes of the exhibitions planned here over the next few years, will derive from Hoffmann’s life and environs.
Born in Brtnice/Pirnitz, Moravia, in 1870, Josef Hoffmann remained attached to the place of his birth until after World War II. After his parents had died in 1907, he refurnished the building in which he had been born, a Baroque town house in the main square of the town, as a summer residence for himself and his sisters. The changes comprised a rearrangement of his parents’ surviving late Biedermeier household goods and template-based wall decorations as well as wooden décor and furniture additions after Hoffmann’s designs for the Wiener Werkstätte. When refurbishing the house, the architect used his parents’ home as an experimental arena for his design ideas. In 1911, Hoffmann dedicated a contribution to the magazine “Das Interieur” to his parental home. After the house had been confiscated in 1945, it was used by the local authorities, last as the town library. After the MAK exhibition “Der barocke Hoffmann” (‘Hoffmann as a Baroque artist,’ 1992), which presented designs and objects by Josef Hoffmann in the Czech Republic again for the first time, plans for the restoration of the building were made which encompassed the reconstruction of the wall decorations. After restoration work has been completed in 2004, the interiors of the Muzeum Rodný dùm Josefa Hoffmanna convey an idea of the spatial effect Josef Hoffmann desired and of his definition of a modern native style informed by the import of the Wiener Werkstätte on which he had a decisive influence.
Exhibition 2012
> JOSEF HOFFMANN /
STANISLAV KOLÍBAL.
Planes
– Lines – Spaces
05.06.–28.10.2012 [>>]
Permanent exhibition
> Josef Hoffmann: Inspirations
In particular, the permanent exhibition’s light will be shed on the artistic influences which Hoffmann, as one of the most important architects and designers of the twentieth century, received in his home town. [>>]
Touring exhibition
> ORNAMENT AND MODERNITY
Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956)
Architect and Designer
The traveling exhibition is part of the strategy to popularize the life and work of Josef Hoffmann in his native country.
Presentations since 2008: Brtnice, Brno, Plzen, Olomouc, Prague, Kladno, Ustí nad Labem.
Further locations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are being planned.
A cooperation of the MAK, ÖKF (Austrian Cultural Forum), Prague and the Moravian Gallery in Brno
Idea: Peter Noever, Walter Persché (former head of the ÖKF, Prague)
Josef Hoffmann Museum,
a joint branch of the
Moravian Gallery in Brno [>>] and the MAK Vienna
Josef Hoffmann Museum
náměstí Svobody 263
58832 Brtnice
Czech Republic
phone (+420-724) 543 722
Opening hours
Nov–Mar: Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Apr–Oct : Tue–Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Jul & Aug: daily 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
ADMISSION
CZK 40 / reduced CZK 20
Contact MAK:
Rainald Franz, interim MAK Curator Glass and Ceramics
phone (+43-1) 711 36-220
e-Mail: [rainald.franz@MAK.at]
How to get there from Vienna:
Take the “Donauufer” highway A22/E49/E59 and continue on the B303 towards Hollabrunn/Znojmo/Prague, pass Hollabrunn and continue to the border crossing Kleinhaugsdorf/Znojmo; in Czechia, take the 38/E59 via Znojmo and Moravske Budejovice to Stonarov where you turn off onto the 402; continue for three kilometers before turning off onto the 403; you will reach the center of Brtnice after 4 kilometers.
The project is funded by the EU Culture Programme
