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Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty (Taschen Basic Architecture Series)

Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty (Taschen Basic Architecture Series)
By August Sarnitz

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The avant-gardist The influence of the Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is extraordinary: for a period of over 60 years he kept up an aesthetic dialog with Modernism, the International Style, and Art Deco. Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten; now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he was one of the leading proponents of the Wiener Werkst?tte, with its close connection to the Arts and Crafts movement. As an architect, he built the first modern buildings in Europe, such as the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and the Palais Stoclet (1905-1911). Traversing several styles and schools during his lifetime, his work shows a consistent Formalism. He abandoned Functionalism long before it became obsolete. In a historic sense, Hoffmann was doubly avant-garde: in both the rise and fall of Modernism.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #373348 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 96 pages

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About the Author
August Sarnitz is an architect and professor of architectural history and theory at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He has published on the subject of 20th century architecture and exile-architecture in the United States and New Zealand, including books on Rudolf M. Schindler, Lois Welzenbacher, Ernst Lichtblau, Ernst Plischke, and Adolf Loos.

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Compact and Colorful Josef Hoffmann4
Tashen has done it again with this succint and generously-illustrated monograph on the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, who was also a prolific designer of furntiture and tableware. There are a few annoying gaps -- some major works are mentioned in the text but not illustrated -- but copies of the standard scholarly biography of Hoffmann, now out of print, sell for $300 or more.