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"With contributions by Hanna Egger, Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Rainald Franz, Waltraud Neuwirth and Nina Claudia Trauth, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Ernst Ploil, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, August Ruhs, Nikolaus Schaffer, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Nancy J. Troy, Angela Volker, and Christian Witt-Doring." "Dagobert Peche (1887-1923) was one of the key figures of the Austrian arts and crafts movement. Along with Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, Peche determined the character of the Wiener Werkstatte with his designs. Hoffmann, who first hired Peche as his assistant but was later strongly influenced by him, wrote after Peche's death in 1923: "Dagobert Peche was Austria's greatest genius in ornamentation since the days of the Baroque...All of Germany has experienced a new stylistic epoch thanks to Peche's designs." The contribution made by Peche to decorative arts is now being given the critical attention it deserves, especially against the backdrop of postmodernism. Peche's extravagant use of materials, imaginative eclecticism, formal boldness, courageous playfulness, and decisive instinct are all indicative of his creative brillance." This illustrated book aims to expand the understanding of Austrian arts and crafts at the turn of the twentieth century and to give Peche's work - which ranges from interior and exhibition design to furniture, fashion and textile design, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewelry, and wallpaper - its proper due in this rich context.Synopsis
"With contributions by Hanna Egger, Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Rainald Franz, Waltraud Neuwirth and Nina Claudia Trauth, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Ernst Ploil, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, August Ruhs, Nikolaus Schaffer, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Nancy J. Troy, Angela Volker, and Christian Witt-Doring." "Dagobert Peche (1887-1923) was one of the key figures of the Austrian arts and crafts movement. Along with Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, Peche determined the character of the Wiener Werkstatte with his designs. Hoffmann, who first hired Peche as his assistant but was later strongly influenced by him, wrote after Peche's death in 1923: "Dagobert Peche was Austria's greatest genius in ornamentation since the days of the Baroque...All of Germany has experienced a new stylistic epoch thanks to Peche's designs." The contribution made by Peche to decorative arts is now being given the critical attention it deserves, especially against the backdrop of postmodernism. Peche's extravagant use of materials, imaginative eclecticism, formal boldness, courageous playfulness, and decisive instinct are all indicative of his creative brillance." "This illustrated book aims to expand the understanding of Austrian arts and crafts at the turn of the twentieth century and to give Peche's work - which ranges from interior and exhibition design to furniture, fashion and textile design, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewelry, and wallpaper - its proper due in this rich context."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights ReservedEditorials
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"Decadent" is the first word that comes to mind when confronted with the decorative arts of this intense art-for-art's-sake modernist, who stripped belle poque Art Nouveau down to clean modernist lines while often playfully relegating function to afterthought. Austria designer Peche was born in 1887, just as Art Nouveau was taking off, and died of cancer at 36, in 1923, as post-WWI modernism hit its apogee. Through his association with the "Vienna Workshops," a design company, he left behind hauntingly clean-lined frivolities that still have the power to shock. Seen here in 360 color and 140 b&w illustrations are Peche's 1921 square-with-exploding-diamond-shaped gold gilt Frame for an Enamel Picture, which would easily overpower whatever enamel work one cared to put in it; the double-heart-shaped back and striped velour seat of Side Chair for the Dining Room in the Apartment of Wolko Gartenberg, which seem invitingly unsittable; and the tall, thin, plant-like Lidded Container, festooned with a single leaf spring and nugget of cracked wheat, which nevertheless doesn't seem like it holds much in the way of food. The book was produced as the catalogue for an exhibition now at New York's Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, a jewel-box-like space backed by Ronald Lauder and others, and it features 14 short essays, most rather useless (particularly the maddeningly coy and incomplete biographical chronology), along with reproductions of Peche's magnificent hand-written love letters to a mistress. (Dec.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
October 11, 2002
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pages
512
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780300096286