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Design for the Austrian Pavilion at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, 1914

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
India ink on paper
20.7×33.8 cm

Artists

  • Josef Hoffmann

    (Pirnitz 1870–1956 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
After 1905, Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) began to show a preference for fluted square columns in his architectural designs. He was able to first realize those on a larger scale in 1911 when he was responsible for the design of the Austrian pavilion at the International Exhibition of Art of 1911 in Rome. In planning his next major exhibition building in 1914, Hoffmann also decided for a three-wing ground plan shaped like a capital letter U opening toward the front. The challenge was to countervail Peter Behrens’s (1868–1940) Festival Hall in the first exhibition of the German Werkbund in Cologne with a commensurately monumental building. He met it by using a propylaeum-like colonnade with stepped attics on the flanks that appear like pedestals for the gable fronts. In this elevation of the main front, the lateral attics are only suggested, which gives more dominance to the towering gable of the large exhibition hall in the background.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Josef Hoffmann
Title
Design for the Austrian Pavilion at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne
Date
1914
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
India ink on paper
Dimensions
20.7×33.8 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 6004
Inventory access
Accession 2016
Selection of Reference works
  • Eduard F. Sekler: Josef Hoffmann. Das architektonische Werk: Monographie und Werkverzeichnis, Salzburg/Wien 1982.
Catalogue raisonne
  • Sekler 1986: 182
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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i

Privatsammlung Leopold, Wien;
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 2017). (1)

  1. Archiv des Leopold Museums, Kaufvertrag vom 07.02.2017

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