Thursday, 3.4.2025

4-6 pm
Conversation Piece: On the 138th birthday of Dagobert Peche
with Christian Witt-Dörring
On the occasion of the 138th birthday of Dagobert Peche (1887-1923), probably the most extraordinary designer of the Wiener Werkstätte, we invite you to a conversation with Christian Witt-Dörring. The former curator of the MAK Collection of Furniture and Woodwork was responsible for the first comprehensive Peche exhibition at the MAK in 1998. The catalogs of that exhibition and the current one, with their different questions and approaches, serve as a conversation piece. How has the view of Peche changed over the last 30 years? Finally, we want to toast the artist's birthday together.

As part of the exhibition PECHE POP
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Sun, 6.4.2025, 10 am-6 pm 

2-5.30 pm
Show restoration in the MAK Columned Hall: The leather stamps of the Wiener Werkstätte
Experience unique objects from the MAK Depot up close. You can look over the shoulders of the restoration team as they clean leather stamps from the Wiener Werkstätte. They were used to emboss enchanting gold motifs into leather, which was then used to make bags or book covers. We explain the technique and also show exclusive leather objects by Dagobert Peche.
 
11 am
MAKtour Dagobert Peche and the Baroque
At the beginning of the 20th century, the visionary designer Dagobert Peche created an irritatingly enchanting world in modern Vienna. But no one creates from emptiness. Accompany us through the Baroque collection and get to know gold decoration and rocaille through Peche's eyes. At the end, the PECHE POP exhibition will provide the proof.
No registration required.
 
2-4 pm
MAK-it! Gilding patterns
with the frame restorer and gilder Elsie Thausing
In this workshop you will gain an insight into the art of gilding. Make an individual selection of samples from the famous Wiener Werkstätte and refine them with gilding milk and gold transfer. Whether business cards, greeting cards or small pictures, you will create your own gilded samples on special paper.
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2.30 pm
Exhibition tour PECHE POP. Dagobert Peche and his traces in the present
Dagobert Peche composed his highly personal oeuvre in just over ten years from leitmotifs in which his origins and career played an essential role. In keeping with this, the MAK exhibition approaches the Peche cosmos not chronologically, but thematically. The chapters are entitled, for example, “Arcadia”, “Boudoir”, ‘Metamorphosis’ or “Uncanny”.
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4 pm
Curator's tour PECHE POP
with Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Dagobert Peche exploded the formal language of the Wiener Werkstätte (WW). He responded to the geometry of WW founders Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser with opulent decors derived from nature; he lent everyday objects a complexity that deliberately subverted logic and utility. Immerse yourself with the curator in the colorful world of the “enfant terrible” of WW.
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4.30 pm
Special guided tour Vienna 1900: Dagobert Peche and his contemporaries
Who were Dagobert Peche's contemporaries? We go to the Vienna 1900 Collection and follow in his footsteps to the PECHE POP exhibition.
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Admission

Reduced admission to the MAK during the European Arts and Crafts Days (March 31 to April 6, 2025) with the keyword: “European Arts and Crafts Days”.
 
Participation fee for guided tours: € 5.50
Participation fee for Conversation Piece: € 10
Participation fee for MAK-it!: € 74 in advance online, € 80 on site (incl. admission)