Gabrielle Fahr-Becker Ordine dei libri

Ein Gesamtkunstwerk. Die Wiener Werkstätte vereinte die schönen und angewandten Künste zu einem vollkommen neuen Blick auf das Leben, befreit von den Fesseln des Historizismus und der überflüssigen Verzierungen. Die Gebäude und Objekte, die daraus entstanden, vereinten klassische Eleganz mit Funktionalität. Den Künstlern der Wiener Werkstätte war kein Gebrauchsgegenstand zu banal, keine architektonische Herausforderung zu komplex. Sie experimentierten mit allen denkbaren Materialien, mit Gold und Edelsteinen, Glasperlen und Papiermaché. Bis zum heutigen Tag benutzen die Architekten und Designer die Innovationen und Ideen von Josef Hoffmann und der Wiener Werkstätte.

Founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waemdorfer, the Wiener Werkstatte ("Vienna Workshop") was a collective of architects and craftsmen which aimed at fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art

This is an introduction to the representational culture of Japan, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. From architecture - sacred and secular, to painting, crafts and dance these volumes piece together a colourful mosaic of human expression.

In 1928 Josef Hoffmann described the Wiener Werkstdtte, a group of studios and workshops which he had founded 25 years previously with Koloman Moser and Fritz Waerndorfer, as ""The Wiener Werkstdtte, established in 1903, is an enterprise for the active promotion and cultivation of all endeavours in the pursuit of art and quality in modern crafts.""For thirty years, a group of highly qualified architects and craftsmen succeeded in realizing their dream of fusing architecture and interior design into a Gesamtkunstwerk - a ""total work of art."" The Wiener Werkstdtte combined fine and applied arts to convey a whole new outlook on life, liberated from the strictures of historicism and superfluous ornamentation. The buildings and objects that resulted combine classical elegance with streamlined functionality.No everyday object was too banal, no architectural task too complex for the artists of the Wiener Werkstdtte. They experimented with an endless variety of materials, from gold and precious stones to papier mbchi and glass beads, and their work still bears lasting witness to a unique and vital artistic movement. Even today, architects and designers continue to cite in their work the innovations and ideas of Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstdtte.

This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world's largest and most celebrated collection of such prints