![]() In 1898, he presented his first decor pieces, including hand-knotted rugs and cushion covers. ![]() Moser also produced posters and advertisements in his “modern style” for various companies. He created everything from exhibition design to facade ornamentation for the Secession Building (designed by Olbrich) to graphic materials for the group, like its letterhead, exhibition posters and the layout and fonts of its monthly magazine, Ver Sacrum. Koloman Moser’s 1904 poster for the bentwood furniture manufacturer J. Moser, whose membership in the club also afforded him entry into upper-class Viennese society, turned his back on oil painting and forged ahead with Gesamtkunstwerk. Looking to the English Arts and Crafts Movement, with its guiding principle of unity of the arts, the group attempted to bring art back into everyday life and introduce a local modernism to fin-de-siècle Vienna. “Primarily inspired by the art of Japan, introduces new paper sizes, fragmented image details, and an emphasis on the line as opposed to the surface.” A year later, Moser together with Klimt, Carl Moll, Joseph Olbrich and Hoffmann founded the Vienna Secession.Īllegory of Sculpture, 1889, by Gustav Klimt. “From this moment on, Moser’s drawing style changes,” Witt-Dörring notes in the exhibition’s catalogue. Moser’s introduction during his last term at school to Klimt’s Allegory of Sculpture proved a turning point for the young artist. That was also the year that Moser, along with other young artists revolting against the Viennese art world’s devotion to naturalism, formed the Siebner Club, the precursor to the Secession. Meanwhile, he continued his painting studies, at the academy and then at the School of Arts and Crafts, starting in 1892. When his father died unexpectedly in 1888, leaving the family in financial straits, Moser helped out by doing illustrations for books and magazines. But he soon surrendered to his artistic inclinations, enrolling in 1885 in Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied painting. Photo by Nathan Murrell for MAKīorn in Vienna in 1868, Moser briefly attended trade school, honoring his father’s wish to see him in commerce. Koloman Moser writing cabinet for Berta Waerndorfer, ca. It will move on to Villa Stuck, in Munich, in May. “They were among the first to leave the reuse of historic styles behind in creating a purely modern design language.”Īptly described as the most comprehensive solo exhibition of Moser’s oeuvre to date, the MAK show contains hundreds of the artist’s pieces, brought together in commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of his death. ![]() “Moser, together with Hoffmann, created a decisive stepping-stone in enabling the modern design of the 20th century,” says Christian Witt-Dörring, guest curator of the exhibition “Koloman Moser: Universal Artist between Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann,” currently on view at the MAK in Vienna. The group’s members included marquee names like Josef Hoffmann and Gustav Klimt, but it was Moser, termed the “all-round artist,” who truly embodied its principles, working in the fields of painting, graphic design, typography, furniture, jewelry, fashion, interior design and scenography. ![]() Photo courtesy of MAKįounded in 1897, the Vienna Secession, a union of artists and designers determined to upend Austria’s artistic conservatism, was committed to making total works of art: Gesamtkunstwerken. Portrait of Koloman Moser, 1903, by anonymous.
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