ART NOUVEAU VIENNA SECESSION Wiener Werkstätte RARE ILLUS CHILDREN’S BOOK 1908
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ART NOUVEAU VIENNA SECESSION Wiener Werkstätte RARE ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S BOOK, 1908 – Signed byAuthor JugendstilChildren’s book illustrated by the Wiener Werkstätte artistMinka Pod.hajska, whose work was published in Ver Sacrum and otherSecession journals. She designed toys which were sold by the Wiener Werkstätte, and later founded the Female Artists Association, an offshoot artist’s groupwhich broke away from the Vienna Secession in 1905 for ideological reasons. Th...is example signed and inscribed by theauthor, a major Central European literary figure of the period. Again producedin the then-radical, approximately square format typical of Secessionist works, including the organization’s fine arts journal Ver Sacum. Just twoexamples of this work appear to be in institutional collections, at Yale andPrinceton universities respectively, Princeton’s website delves into the historyof the book and its artist: https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/tag/minka-podhaska/. Format: (15 x 15cm) Otherartists associated with the Vienna Secession include: Gustav Klimt, EgonSchiele, Max Fabiani, Charles Leandre, Minka Pod.hajska, Leopold Stolba, AntonNowak, Marianne Schonwald, Karl Muller, 1862-1938; Maximilian Liebenwein, , Koloman Moser, Ernst Stohr, Wilhelm Schmidt, Max Kurzweil, Leopold Bauer, Wilhelm Laage, Emil Orlik, Aubrey Beardsley, Josef Hoffmann, Max Benirschke, Ludwig von Hofmann, Johann Victor Kramer, Rudolf Jettmar, Irma von Duczynska, Felician von Myrbach-Rheinfeld, Friedrich König, Adolf Böhm, Wilhelm List, Josef Maria Auchentaller, Otto Friedrich, Rudolf Bacher, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Richard Dehmel, RicardaHuch, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Arno Holz, Joseph Olbrich, Alfred Roller and manyothers, many of whom also worked for the Wiener Werkstätte.Pleasesee our OTHER AUCTIONS for similar items relating to the Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätte.
