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Wallpaper design Wedgwood, c. 1920

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Charcoal, watercolor on paper
119.5×75.7 cm

Artists

  • Bertold Löffler

    (Nieder-Rosenthal [today: district of Liberec] 1874–1960 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
This wallpaper design, created by the painter, graphic artist and designer Bertold Löffler (1874–1960), constitutes the first outline of an artistic idea. Using charcoal and blue watercolor, and incorporating the now yellowed white paper, Löffler depicted flower-like funnel structures one inside the other. These “grow rampant” through the three-dimensionally structured space on a blue ground. For the background, the artist chose simplified structures reminiscent of twigs and leaves with isolated small blossoms. Though based on real vegetal forms, the design appears highly stylized and abstracted. Löffler selected the title for his wallpaper by association, as the blue and white colors reminded him of the ceramics produced by the famous English company Wedgwood.

Object data

Artist/author
  • Bertold Löffler
Title
Wallpaper design Wedgwood
Date
c. 1920
Art movement
Wiener Werkstätte
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Charcoal, watercolor on paper
Dimensions
119.5×75.7 cm
Signature
Designated lower center: 8. Wegwood
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 693
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
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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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