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The exhibition

was realized thanks to financial support provided by the European Regional Development Fund and  by the state budget of the Czech Republic and is part of the project "Bilaterale Designnetzwerke."

Exhibition View

Josef Hoffmann, design for the extension of the Arts and Crafts School, Vienna, 1906. 

photo before 1931 © MAK

Exhibition View

Druckgrafik, Bildtafel der Studie für das Gebäude der U-Bahn-"Station Hütteldorf" nach Entwurf von Otto Wagner

Josef Hoffmann

Exhibition View

Otto Wagner, portrait

Otto Wagner, Moderne Galerie am Stubenring [Modern gallery on Stubenring], 1899

design of the façade, in: Einige Entwürfe und Skizzen …, 1900

Josef Hoffmann, portrait

Josef Hoffmann, Forum Orbis Insula Pacis, design of an ideal city, 1895

in: Aus der Wagnerschule, supplement to the magazine Der Architekt, 1896

JOSEF HOFFMANN—OTTO WAGNER

On the Use and Effect of Architecture

Wed, 24.5.2017—Sun, 6.5.2018

Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, Czech Republic

Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, CZ
Exhibition

JOSEF HOFFMANN—OTTO WAGNER

On the Use and Effect of Architecture

Wed, 24.5.2017—Sun, 6.5.2018

Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, Czech Republic

This year’s special exhibition JOSEF HOFFMANN—OTTO WAGNER. On the Use and Effect of Architecture in the Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice is dedicated to the relationship of Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) with his teacher Otto Wagner (1841–1918), the centenary of whose death is approaching in 2018. His training under Otto Wagner at the Specialschule für Architektur at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, their joint work in his studio and in the Secession, as well as Wagner’s facilitation of his appointment as professor at the Imperial Royal School of Arts and Crafts were decisive for Hoffmann’s career.

In his “Selbstbiographie,” Josef Hoffmann still writes enthusiastically about Wagner even in old age: “Now we finally had a strong personality amongst us, who, full of ideas, followed his own path and was able to inspire us with regard to everything new and necessary. His charming residence and studio in the Rennweg, with the two flanking residential buildings, especially impressed us, and we were enthusiastic students of our present teacher and master.”

In 1909 he described his work: “Wagner forsakes the purely formalistic, meaning that he doesn’t view his structures as compositions of conventional forms, but instead primarily as attempts to explain or to crystallize the design and the purpose of the structure with the usual means of expression.”

Josef Hoffmann’s design for the monument to Otto Wagner in Vienna can be considered as his last “homage” to his teacher. It is a nine-meter high, simple stone pylon, a reduction of a victory column with a block of type at eye level. It was erected in 1930 on the occasion of the Werkbund congress near the palace gate in Vienna, but was removed during World War II. In 1959, Roland Rainer, then Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, had the Otto Wagner monument erected once again near the Academy.

The exhibition juxtaposes the work of Josef Hoffmann with that of his teacher Otto Wagner on the basis of designs and objects.

Curators: Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection Rostislav Koryčánek, Curator, Curator for Architecture and Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno

The exhibition is held under the patronage of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Austria.



The exhibition was realized thanks to financial support provided by the European Regional Development Fund and  by the state budget of the Czech Republic and is part of the project "Bilaterale Designnetzwerke."

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Bilateral Design Networks:<br>Design Innovation from Early 20th Century Modernity to Digital Modernity



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The exhibition
was realized thanks to financial support provided by the European Regional Development Fund and  by the state budget of the Czech Republic and is part of the project "Bilaterale Designnetzwerke."
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Exhibition View
<BODY>Josef Hoffmann, design for the extension of the Arts and Crafts School, Vienna, 1906. <br /></BODY>
Josef Hoffmann, design for the extension of the Arts and Crafts School, Vienna, 1906. 
photo before 1931 © MAK
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Exhibition View
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Druckgrafik, Bildtafel der Studie für das Gebäude der U-Bahn-"Station Hütteldorf" nach Entwurf von Otto Wagner
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Josef Hoffmann
<BODY>Exhibition View</BODY>
Exhibition View
<BODY>Otto Wagner, portrait</BODY>
Otto Wagner, portrait
<BODY>Otto Wagner, <em>Moderne Galerie am Stubenring</em> [Modern gallery on Stubenring], 1899 </BODY>
Otto Wagner, Moderne Galerie am Stubenring [Modern gallery on Stubenring], 1899
design of the façade, in: Einige Entwürfe und Skizzen …, 1900
<BODY>Josef Hoffmann, portrait</BODY>
Josef Hoffmann, portrait
<BODY>Josef Hoffmann, <em>Forum Orbis Insula Pacis</em>, design of an ideal city, 1895</BODY>
Josef Hoffmann, Forum Orbis Insula Pacis, design of an ideal city, 1895
in: Aus der Wagnerschule, supplement to the magazine Der Architekt, 1896

Exhibitions

Exhibition in Brtnice, CZ

JOSEF HOFFMANN: Inspirations

Permanent exhitibition since 16 June 2009
iCal Tue, 16.6.2009—Sun, 30.11.2014

Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, Czech Republic

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