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Table Lamp, 1903/04

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
White metal hammered
57.1×24.1×24.1 cm

Artists

  • Josef Hoffmann

    (Pirnitz 1870–1956 Vienna)

  • Wiener Werkstätte
Currently on display at OG3
This table lamp was designed by the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) in 1903/04 for the bedroom of then 17-year-old daughter of the textile industrialist Max Biach (1870–1912), Katharina. Hoffmann, a co-founder of the Vienna Secession, created a Gesamtkunstwerk, or universal work of art, with this ensemble shortly before the foundation of the Wiener Werkstätte. It included the furniture, the lamps, the wall decorations and the textiles for this wealthy family’s residence. The bedroom’s decoration further included a mirror cabinet, two wardrobes, an armoire, a bed with a nightstand and a desk and chair.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Design: Josef Hoffmann
  • Execution: Wiener Werkstätte
Title
Table Lamp
Date
1903/04
Art movement
Wiener Werkstätte
Category
Arts and crafts
Material​/technique
White metal hammered
Dimensions
57.1×24.1×24.1 cm
Signature
Marked and monogrammed on the base: Rose mark of the Wiener Werkstätte, WW, JH
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 4587, Patron: bel etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Verborgene Schätze. Kunstwerke suchen Paten!, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2016 (Ausst.-Broschüre Leopold Museum, Wien, 29.01.2016–22.02.2016).
Keywords
design/arts and craftlighting/lampstextile fabric/cloth

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (seit 1994).

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