saucer

Joseph Olbrich, designer

1867–1908

Waechtersbacher Keramik, manufacturer

1832–2011

saucer, circa 1900

Portfolio/Series title: doll's coffee service

Where object was made: Schlierbach, Germany

Material/technique: porcelain

Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 1.5 x 10.1 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 0 9/16 x 4 in

Credit line: Gift of Robert A. Hiller

Accession number: 2024.0076

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Quilts: A Thread of Modernism," Aug-2005, Debra Thimmesch and Barbara Brackman
Founders of the Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser were involved in the anti-academic Secession in Vienna in the late nineteenth century. Their philosophy that artistic endeavor should permeate all aspects of everyday life found favor with designers such
as Joseph Olbrich and Jutta Sika. Unlike the sensuous vegetation of the Art Nouveau style, Wiener Werkstätte artists and architects embraced an aesthetic of simplicity realized in the basic geometric shapes and solid fields of color of their products.