WIENER WERKSTÄTTE - Konst / hantverk

Vienna around 1900 was a creative melting pot, where the composer Gustav Mahler underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud and Gustav Klimt's life partner Emilie Flöge founded the Schwestern Flöge fashion house and was the model for his iconic work Kiss. In this environment, the production cooperative Wiener Werkstätte was founded by the architect Josef Hoffmann, the artist Koloman Moser and the patron Fritz Waerndorfer in 1903. They questioned the progress of industrialization and wanted to raise the status of the craftsman and the value of the craft. Art and design would permeate everything from architecture, furniture design, fashion and jewelry to toys and utility items. The philosophy of dissolving the dividing line between art and craft came to be central also in Swedish architecture and design.