Children’s cutlery Josef Hoffmann & Eduard J. Wimmer-Wisgrill Wiener Werkstätte ca. 1923
children’s cutlery, Josef Hoffmann and Eduard J. Wimmer-Wisgrill, Wiener Werkstätte, ca. 1923, marked
Every single piece marked with “JH”, “WW”, silver fines “900” and silver hallmark
Bib: Wiener Werkstätte catalogue, 1928, p. 48, mod. numbers: S be 8/1, S be 8/2, S be 8/3; Archive of the WW in the Museum of applied Arts, Vienna, original draft, inv. nr. KI 12087-12;
designed 1912, executed ca. 1923
Description
Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill was a private student of Koloman Moser and studied under Josef Hoffmann at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, among others. He helped the Wiener Werkstätte, where he worked for over ten years, develop a number of first-class designs for a wide range of different objects.
Wimmer-Wisgrill designed our children’s cutlery in 1912 as a one-off piece for Miss Hedwig Marx, as the original sketch reveals. Hoffmann must have liked the successful design, as he put it into production. After Wimmer-Wisgrill left the Wiener Werkstätte in 1922, this model was published as a design by Josef Hoffmann and included in the 1928 sales catalog.
ARTIST
Josef Hoffmann (Brtnice 1870 – 1956 Vienna), co-founder of the Viennese Secession and of the Wiener Werkstätte, was an extremely productive and versatile architect and designer. Throughout his career he experimented with various forms, techniques and materials. In his designs, he was striving for a strong reduction of the form to the essential and was a pioneer of geometric Jugendstil. This is how his characteristic geometric style was established. The scope of his designs ranges from buildings and entire interiors, following the concept of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” (total work of art), all the way to small details of everyday life. One of his most significant works is the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, a Gesamtkunstwerk which he executed for a wealthy entrepreneur between 1905 and 1911 in collaboration with, among others, Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser.
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