Art Nouveau Austrian Silver Brooch with Embossed Leaves attributed to Josef Hoffmann, 1912

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About This Piece

Silver Brooch Josef Hoffmann Wiener Werkstätte Austrian Jugendstil Embossed Leaves 1912 Josef Hoffmann, a member of the Vienna Secession, was both the co-founder and one of the most active designers of the Wiener Werkstätte. Much of the success of this Viennese art manufactory is due to his designs. In addition to a variety of articles of daily use, furniture and interior decoration, he also designed various fashion accessories, such as this brooch. This elegant, silver chased brooch bears a relief-like foliage motif, which adapts organically to the shape of the object. Small dots around the motif complete the composition. The balanced decoration is framed by a finely crafted edge, a so-called “Perlschnur”. The brooch is marked on the back with “WW” and with the silver hallmark, the diana mark. Back marked with "WW" and displaced 900 silver fine hallmark "Dianakopf" Bib.: Archive of the Wiener Werkstätte in the Museum of applied Arts Vienna, model number: S 2694 inventory number WWE 13-7 (original photo) and WWF 96-185-2 (design).

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Creator	Josef Hoffmann
Manufacturer	Wiener Werkstätte (Manufacturer) , Josef Hoffmann (Designer)
Design Period	1890 to 1919
Year	1912
Production Period	1890 to 1919
Country of Manufacture	Austria
Identifying Marks	This piece is attributed to the above-mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark
Style	Art Nouveau
Detailed Condition	Very Good — This vintage/antique item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use.
Product Code	THA-2183372
Restoration and Damage Details	Wear consistent with age and use
Materials	Silver
Color	Silver
Width	5 cm 1.8 inch
Height	4 cm 1.4 inch
Weight Range	Standard — Between 40kg and 80kg
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Ships from	Austria
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About the Creator

Josef Hoffmann

Architect-designer Josef Hoffmann was born in 1870 in Prinitz, Moravia (now Brtnice, the Czech Republic). He studied architecture at the Senior State Commercial and Technical School in Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic). After a year of practice in Würzburg, Germany, he moved to Vienna, the city where he would remain for the rest of his life. He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts there, and, between 1892 and 1895, studied under both Karl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner. From 1896 to 1897, he worked in Wagner’s Vienna studio. He also became one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists (including Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and others) who favored a modern, experimental approach to the arts. Hoffman’s contributions to several Secession exhibition installations, all influenced by the Art Nouveau-Jugendstil style, helped establish his name. In 1899, he was appointed a professor at Vienna’s Kunstgewerbeschule, a position he held until his retirement in 1936. He taught in the school’s architecture, metalwork, enamel, and applied art departments.

Around 1900, Hoffmann became a proponent of the Gesamtkunstwerk (or total work of art) approach, exemplified through unified architecture and interior design, with an emphasis on craftsmanship. He was cofounder and co-artistic director, alongside Koloman Moser, for the new Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) beginning in 1903. In 1905, he left the Secession, and received the commission to design the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Completed in 1911, the Stoclet was arguably Hoffmann’s most important architectural project.

Throughout his prolific 50-year career, Hoffmann designed everything from textiles to furniture, fashion, jewelry, exhibitions, and buildings for prestigious clients like Lobmeyr and Lötz. Later in his life, he focused primarily on housing projects. Aesthetically, his work evolved from Jugendstil to more minimal, geometric forms and then on toward neoclassicism.

He died in Vienna in 1956.