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Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Artistic intervention: Donald Judd

Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Artistic intervention: Donald Judd

David Roentgen

David Roentgen

ART CABINET
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LIBRARY TABLE

LIBRARY TABLE

Vienna, ca. 1730
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The Production of Porcelain [Die Porzellanerzeugung]

The Production of Porcelain [Die Porzellanerzeugung]

Vienna, 1768 and earlier
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PORCELAIN ROOM FROM DUBSKY PALACE IN BRNO

PORCELAIN ROOM FROM DUBSKY PALACE IN BRNO

Vienna, ca. 1740
Ke 6201/1912
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Nikolaus Haberstumpf

Nikolaus Haberstumpf

CABINET
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Franz von Hauslab

Franz von Hauslab

DESK FOR COUNTESS RÉGINE D’ASPREMONT
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Claude le Fort du Plessy (?)

Claude le Fort du Plessy (?)

CONSOLE TABLE FOR PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY
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TABLE CENTERPIECE FROM ZWETTL MONASTERY

TABLE CENTERPIECE FROM ZWETTL MONASTERY

Vienna, 1768 and earlier
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WILHELM GOTTLIEB MARTITZ: SMALL TABLE

WILHELM GOTTLIEB MARTITZ: SMALL TABLE

Vienna, 1769
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Donald Judd

Donald Judd

Artist, USA
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Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

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Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

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Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism

Artistic intervention: Donald Judd
With a unique artistic intervention Donald Judd managed to blend the different stylistic worlds of the Baroque, Rococo, Classicism and Minimalism. Taking on a central position here is the Porcelain Chamber from the Palais Dubsky in Brno, one of the first rooms ever designed in European porcelain.
I was doubtful about the idea of artists making installations of earlier objects; I am still doubtful. I think installation should be the responsibility of the curators of the objects, although I continue to be critical of the generally artificial way in which objects are installed. To have artists make such installations is likely to perpetuate devious installation. I accepted the problem as a favour to the museum, and I accepted as a premise for myself that I would not contradict the judgement of the curator responsible, Christian Witt-Dörring. I think we did our best. The museum's premise, the installation's set fact, was that the Dubsky room, originally a room in a palace, had to be reconstructed in a much larger room of the museum. I was told there was no alternative. The room could be remade either in one of the corners of the exhibition room, leaving an awkward right angle for the other furniture, or it could be remade in the center of the room, leaving a symmetrical space and possibly establishing a room within a room - a good idea. I asked that this be done. The Dubsky room is too large and is awkward, but placing it in the center was the right decision. The room and most of the other furniture were made in the eighteenth century for the aristocracy. The room's grandeur is uncertain, and therefore excessive. It is uneasy; Chardin is not uneasy. All architecture and most installations are now uneasy. Why is Chardin simple, strong and easy? The separate pieces of furniture are placed symmetrically, usually in pairs, usually opposite each other. A rectangular space usually determines this. The positioning of the furniture was also carefully decided with regard to the size, color, and type of each piece. I asked for part of the moulding under the ceiling of the large room to be repeated around the exterior of the Dubsky room, to further incorporate it into the eighteenth century space made in the nineteenth century, and to reduce the excessive generality of its exterior. This is a small, uneasy room uneasily placed in a large, doubly uneasy room. I think it should be in the basement. But Witt-Dörring and I did our best, uneasily./ Donald Judd

The MAK's collections contain some splendid examples of eighteenth-century cabinet-making. The emphasis in the collection is on pieces from the cultural realm encompassing Austria, France, and Germany. These bear witness to the tremendous typological, technical, and formal developments that took place during the course of the eighteenth century. The bureau cabinet, with its origins in the seventeenth century, is gradually replaced as a prestigious furniture item by the writing desk, the southern German form of which is known as a "tabernacle cabinet.” In France, the chest of drawers develops as a new kind of case furniture providing storage space in the living area, a reaction to the growth of the private sphere and the increasing desire for comfort. Forms of writing furniture that arise include the basic desk and the cylinder desk. The surface decoration of furniture becomes more varied, and is used to meet novel requirements and fashions (wooden and Boulle marquetry, lacquer, porcelain, etc.). Interior design itself becomes more uniform with the development of mobile and immobile furnishings. Furniture enters into decorative unity, and often structural unity, with the room. The porcelain room from the Dubsky Palace in Brno eloquently documents this, as well as marking the beginning of porcelain production in Vienna, from 1719 onward. / Christian Witt-Dörring - curator of the MAK Furniture and Woodwork Collection during the phase of the reinstallation of the MAK Permanent Collection in the early 1990s)

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Biography

DONALD JUDD
Born 1928 in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Died 1994 in New York.
The painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, art critic, and philosopher Donald Judd was one of the most important representatives of Minimal Art. Like no other, he redefined the relation between art and space.
In 1971, Judd moved to Marfa, Texas where he established the Chinati Foundation which was opened to the public in 1986. Works of Judd and of his contemporaries are on permanent display here. The Chinati Foundation exemplifies one of Judd’s greatest concerns: the appropriate presentation of artworks. This has gradually led to a change of thought in museums in favor of a more unified and coherent display of artworks.

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