buffet hutch

• The Rich Haul

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Koloman Moser, Vienna, 1900
• execution: Portois & Fix, Vienna, 1900

• Jugendstil,
• Modern,

• Ahornholz,
• furniert,
• dunkelbraun gebeizt und politiert; Fischmarketerie aus Buchsbaum- und Pyramiden-Mahagoniholz; Horizontalmarketerie aus gebeizten Ahorn- und naturbelassenen Buchsbaumholz; Ulmenholz,
• gebeizt und poliert; Messing; Glas,
• facettiert,

• height: 180 cm
• width: 168 cm
• depth: 67 cm

• H 1700

• donation, 1901

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• photograph, Buffet “Der reiche Fischzug” [The Rich Haul]
• photograph, Photograph of a buffet cabinet after a design by Koloman Moser: The Rich Haul
• picture frame, Der reiche Fischzug
• wallpaper design, Entwurf eines Musters für Stoff oder Tapete: "Der reiche Fischzug"
• wallpaper design, Entwurf eines Musters für Stoff oder Tapete: "Der reiche Fischzug"
• design, Flächenmusterentwurf zu "Der reiche Fischzug"
• portfolio, Goldfische Wandbehang [recto]
• fabric swatch, Forellen-Reigen
• decorative fabric, Forellen-Reigen
• Binding, Werkmappe der Klasse Franz Matsch, anlässlich der Weltausstellung in Paris 1900 von Schüler*innen der Kunstgewerbeschule angefertig
• party favor, Ballspende zum Ball der Stadt Wien am 9. Februar 1901
• portfolio, III. Flächenschmuck von Koloman Moser

• signature: Portois & Fix Wien/6999

For the 8th exhibition of the Secession in 1900, which was the first one to do away with the distinction between “fine” and “applied” art, Koloman Moser, who had trained at the Academy in Vienna as a painter, presented his unconventional furniture piece Der reiche Fischzug [The Rich Haul]. This buffet, regarded as a groundbreaking and influential example of a specifically Viennese style of furniture, can be understood as a challenge to that period’s established sense of aesthetic form and proportion: by emphasizing not the supporting structure alone, Moser produced an ambivalent effect that made it difficult for his contemporaries to differentiate between support and load, space and surface. At the same time, the geometric nature of this construction’s basic forms and the use of surface ornamentation—much like in many later pieces of Viennese furniture—gave rise to a harmony of sorts that was both new and full of tension. (Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)

on display

• buffet hutch, The Rich Haul, Koloman Moser, MAK Inv.nr. H 1700

• https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/the-rich-haul_184942

• 11.12.2024