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Title
- [Present of Honor] from the Wiener Werkstätte on Josef Hoffmann’s 50th Birthday
Collection
Production
- design: Dagobert Peche
- manufacturer: Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, 1920
Subject
Measurements
- length: 20 cm
- height: 38 cm
Inventory number
- GO 1788-1
Acquisition
- donation, 1925
Department
- Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Inscriptions
- hallmark:
Description
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The Ehrengabe [Present of Honor] was given by the employees of the Wiener Werkstätte to their artistic director, Josef Hoffmann, on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Dagobert Peche formed a branch, attached to which were three fruits—born of the designer’s imagination—that served as the packaging for three further gifts symbolizing the fine arts: architecture, sculpture and painting. The branch rests on a wooden pedestal covered in cloth beneath a bell jar and is reminiscent of commemorative gifts from the latter half of the 19th century. Hoffmann’s present was exhibited at the Wiener Werkstätte
branch in New York, opened in 1922. The head of that location, Joseph Urban, presented it to the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry as a gift from Josef Hoffmann in 1925.
(Schmuttermeier, Elisabeth)
Exhibition
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centerpiece, [Present of Honor] from the Wiener Werkstätte on Josef Hoffmann’s 50th Birthday, Dagobert Peche, MAK Inv.nr. GO 1788-1
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Last update
- 01.10.2024
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