Status On View, Gallery 246 Department Applied Arts of Europe Artist Josef Hoffmann (Designer) Title Tall-Case Clock Place Austria (Object made in) Date 1901–1911 Medium Painted maple, ebony, mahogany, gilt brass, glass, silver-plated copper, patinated bronze, and clockworks Dimensions 179.5 × 46.5 × 30.5 cm (70 5/8 × 18 1/4 × 12 in.) Credit Line Laura Matthews, and Mary Waller Langhorne endowments Reference Number 1983. The Moser glass enterprise was founded by Ludwig Moser (18331916). Its richly patterned surface decoration depicts a stylized tree of life motif. The door is fashioned from hand-embossed gilt brass inset with cut-glass prisms. members of the Vienna Secession produced exquisite work across a spectrum of. In contrast to the case’s austere rectilinearity, Czeschka designed a luxurious, hand-wrought scheme for its dial and door. Highly attractive Secessionist silver lidded dressing table cut glass. Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church are striking examples of the movement’s notable works. CUT GLASS VIENNA SECESSION SERIESJohann Loetz Witwe’s series of iridescent vases in bold, striking tones and Leopold Forstner’s stained glass work at the St. Hoffmann’s design consists of simple, architectonic forms emphasized through the bold use of stark white-painted maple and an inlaid checkered pattern. Glass also played a significant role in the Vienna Secession. Produced by the Werkstätte’s specialist craftsmen, this clock embodies the unexpected dichotomy that arose within the workshop: its early reformist ideals resulted in progressive, even avant-garde, products that appealed primarily to a privileged, sophisticated clientele. A manifestation of this philosophy was the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshop, of which Hoffmann was a founder and Czeschka a member. Like their English counterparts in the Arts and Crafts movement, the Secessionists initially supported the credo that art is for everyone and worked to create beautiful, simple objects for everyday use. This tall-case clock represents a masterful collaboration between two major figures in the Vienna Secession movement: the architect Josef Hoffmann and the designer Carl Otto Czeschka.
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