{"id":37337,"date":"2021-10-25T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=37337"},"modified":"2024-10-07T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:59:08","slug":"josef-hoffmann-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/josef-hoffmann-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Josef Hoffmann exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmannsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Basket with handle by Hoffmann\" class=\"wp-image-37336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmannsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmannsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some people have a lasting influence on a branch of art and design. Some enjoy exalted status in several creative areas. And some are Josef Hoffmann: architect, teacher and multifaceted designer. A Hoffmann retrospective at the MAK pays tribute to the work and impact of this Austrian genius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A detailed journey across the life and output of this pioneer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Demonstrates how his reach goes far beyond his iconic work within the Viennese Modernism movement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes Hoffmann designs never seen in public<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Features over 800 exhibits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Dec 14, 2021 &#8211; Jun 19, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mak\/\">MAK overview &amp; visitor info<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#design\">Design exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"progress-through-beauty\">Progress through beauty<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/portraithoffmann.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Josef Hoffmann \u00a9 MAK\" class=\"wp-image-37340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/portraithoffmann.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/portraithoffmann-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Portrait of Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, after 1945; photograph: Yoichi R. Okamoto \u00a9 MAK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All good things come to those that wait. What should have been a glorious celebration of Josef Hoffmann&#8217;s 150th birthday in 2020 (no doubt with remarkably well-designed holders for all the candles) arrives in the MAK museum a year later after COVID-induced delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dip your toes into turn-of-the-century Vienna, and the name Hoffman pops up everywhere as a pioneer and key protagonist of, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/secession\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2119\">Secession<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-moderne\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28303\">Wiener Moderne<\/a>, not to mention co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-werkstatte\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28911\">Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This still undersells, however, Hoffmann&#8217;s wider impact and reach as a visionary architect, interior designer, teacher, fashion designer, protagonist of a modern design culture and lifestyle, and creator of day-to-day objects of practicality and beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By offering a full retrospective, curators Matthias Boeckl, Christian Witt-D\u00f6rring, and Rainald Franz reveal the underexplored aspects of Hoffmann&#8217;s output and do true justice to a career that dates from the late 1800s through to the mid-20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results show us that Hoffmann&#8217;s influence covers a wider period of time across a larger part of the world than the inevitable focus on Vienna around 1900 suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, the Hoffmann exhibition takes us on a timeline that begins in 1870 in today&#8217;s Czechia and finishes with his death in Vienna in 1956 (he has an honorary grave in Vienna&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/zentralfriedhof\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"301\">Zentralfriedhof<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmanncutlery.jpg\" alt=\"Hoffmann-designed cutlery \u00a9 Aslan Kudrnofsky\/MAK\" class=\"wp-image-37341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmanncutlery.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hoffmanncutlery-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Josef Hoffmann, Silver flatware for Fritz and Lili Waerndorfer, flat model, silver, Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte, 1904\u20131908<br>\u00a9 Aslan Kudrnofsky\/MAK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The curators introduce us to projects, texts and designs that have slipped past largely unnoticed by history. And we can admire items never before seen in public. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Furnishings Hoffman designed for Sonja Knips, one of the great sponsors of the Wiener Moderne whose portrait by Gustav Klimt hangs at Upper Belvedere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hoffman designs from the Nazi era in Austria (you&#8217;ll find more in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/art-nazis-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37321\">Vienna Falls in Line<\/a> exhibition at the Wien Museum MUSA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Designs from the archives of such famous companies as porcelain manufacturers Augarten, textile manufacturers J. Backhausen &amp; S\u00f6hne and glassware manufacturers J. &amp; L. Lobmeyr (Hoffmann&#8217;s designs for Lobmeyr will also feature in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/lobmeyr-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"59244\">2023 exhibition<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoffmann&#8217;s monumental achievements still receive due attention, of course, including such milestone architecture as the Purkersdorf Sanitorium (built 1904\/5) or the famous Stoclet House in Brussels (built 1905-1911).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stoclet project, a Gesamtkunstwerk erected under Hoffmann&#8217;s auspices, is now a World Heritage site. UNESCO describes it as a &#8220;\u2026veritable icon of the birth of modernism&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same might be said about Hoffmann. But as the exhibition so aptly demonstrates, that would be underestimating his wider achievements and legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets-and-dates\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Admire the breadth and depth of Hoffmann&#8217;s creativity between December 14th, 2021 and June 19th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ticket for the MAK gets you into the Hoffmann exhibition, too, or use a suitable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/city-passes\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30352\">sightseeing pass<\/a> for one-time entry to the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to pop into the permanent exhibitions, too, since they include the <em>Wien 1900<\/em> section full of works by Hoffmann and contemporaries. That section also has the Showroom Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte currently featuring an exhibition designed by Michael Anastassiades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-to-the-hoffmann-exhibition\">How to get to the Hoffmann exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Find your way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mak\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7100\">MAK museum<\/a> (scroll down that page) along the great Ring boulevard that circles the centre like a late 19th-century J\u00f6rmungandr (if J\u00f6rmungandr was a fan of fine architecture, trams, and sausage stalls).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1G1JqCaIFJT9xk7v01SX4IL93otIsKj2D\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have a lasting influence on a branch of art and design. 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