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Display cabinet from the Darmstadt Room at the 1900 Paris World Fair, 1900

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Maple, dark stained and patinated, glass, brass, (partially reconstructed)
180×100 cm

Artists

  • Joseph Maria Olbrich

    (Opava 1867–1908 Düsseldorf)

Currently on display at OG4
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908) was featured in both the German and the Austrian arts-and-crafts displays at the 1900 Paris World Fair. In the summer of 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig had succeeded in nominating the members of his newly founded artists’ colony for this major event. Those responsible for the selection aimed at presenting German arts and crafts in the best possible light, hoping that the movement’s latest trends would be a success in the international competition. For the so-called Darmstadt Room, Olbrich conceptualized a bourgeois reception room which was described as genteel. The designer won the Grand Prix for his Viennese Room.

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Object data

Artist/author
  • Joseph Maria Olbrich
Title
Display cabinet from the Darmstadt Room at the 1900 Paris World Fair
Date
1900
Category
Furniture
Material​/technique
Maple, dark stained and patinated, glass, brass, (partially reconstructed)
Dimensions
180×100 cm
Credit line of the permanent loan
Private collection
Selection of Reference works
  • Wien 1900. Aufbruch in die Moderne, hrsg. von Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Wien 2019 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, ab 15.03.2019).
Keywords
world fairinteriordesign/arts and craftornamental cupboardhousingfurniture/household effects

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