The Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops was founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and artist Koloman Moser. In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte began publishing a numbered series of postcards, which would ultimately include nearly 1,000 cards. Many of them were designed to celebrate holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. Fashion, both contemporary and historical, became another popular subject, along with humorous topics and favourite tourist spots of the period.
All of the major designers who worked for the firm were contributors in this medium including Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Dagobert Peche. Other noteworthy artists who were active in this area whose names may be less familiar include Moriz Jung, Rudolf Kalvach, Mela Koehler, and Maria Likarz, among others.
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Modernism, Quilts & the Wiener Werkstatte
Digitally leafing through an old catalog about art and design from Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) I came across this illustration....Patchwork pillows as hot new design in 1916.
I've posted about the influence of the German early-20th-century design workshop the Bauhaus and how their modern style parallels quilt design.
A shop selling crafts from the Wiener Werkstatte
at a time when ruffled
Priscilla curtains were cutting edge decor.
The pillows above from the Austrian workshop show the same parallels between patchwork quilts and modernism.
WW Designers made good use of the simplest shapes
In ceramics
In interior design.
Is that polkadot item a stove ?!
It shows that even in this movement they wanted design
incorporated in their house
In fashion.
And textiles
Here's the best source on the textiles,
Angela Volker's book Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte
A few quilts the Viennese avant garde would have enjoyed displaying.
Early 20th century
Mid 20th century
Early 20th century
Mid twentieth century
Twentieth century Amish
Early twentieth century
The catalog with the black and white illustrations above is
Österreichische Werkkultur By Max Eisler, Österreichischer Werkbund, Vienna, 1916.
Read it at Google Books
Read more about the Wiener Werkstatte here
My guess is this postcard says:
Viennese cafe; the intellectual.
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