Josef Hoffmann
*15. 12. 1870 – Brtnice, Czech Republic
†7. 5. 1956 – Wien, Austria
Biography
He studied at the CK Industrial School in Brno and worked at the military construction office in Würzburg. He further studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Karl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner. In the design office of Otto Wagner, he met J. M. Olbrich, with whom he founded the Wiener Secession in 1897, from which he left in 1905 to establish the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903 with banker Fritz Wärndorfer and Koloman Moser. Since 1899, he taught at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule).The English translation is powered by AI tool. Switch to Czech to view the original text source.
Realizations and projects
Realizations and Projects
Row Houses for Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna, 1930-32Skywa-Primavesi Villa, Vienna, 1913-15
Stoclet Palace, Brussels, Belgium, 1905-11
Two Armchairs, around 1905 and 1910
Houses in the Hohe Warte Villa Colony
Entrance Relief (supraporte) for Wiener Secession
Purkersdorf Sanatorium, Austria, 1903
Interior Design of the Fashion Salon of the Flöge Sisters (in collaboration with K.Moser), Vienna, around 1903
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