Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus

Drawing, Designs for Tall Flower Glasses, Ashtrays, Table Ornament

• Designed by Oswald Haerdtl
• Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr
• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

• modernism
• tableware
• glass
• Vienna
• vase
• glassware
• design drawing
• table ornament
• ash tray
• Lobmeyr
• austria

Agnes Miles Carpenter admired the Lobmeyr glass at the 1925 Paris Exposition and placed an order for a commission with the firm in Vienna. These life-sized designs were sent to Carpenter in New York as part of the commission, which included glassware by Oswald Haerdtl. The tall glass is on display in the case nearby.

Drawing, Design for Oval Flower Cup

• Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr
• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Designs for Drinking Vessels, Covered Dishes, and Candle Holders

• Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr
• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

• dining
• vessels
• tableware
• glass
• Vienna
• form
• glassware
• design drawing
• Lobmeyr
• austria
• set

This drawing of 8 Ambassador-pattern vessels is carefully composed to illustrate that the pieces are intended as a set, ranging from water glasses to finger bowls and candlesticks. Agnes Miles Carpenter approved the pieces for her Fifth Avenue apartment, some of which are in Cooper Hewitt’s collection.

Drawing, Design for Soup Plate, Dinner Plate, Fruit Plate

• Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr
• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Wineglass, 3rd Size

• Designed by Oswald Haerdtl
• Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr
• graphite on tracing paper
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Two Goblets, A and B, 1926

• graphite on tracing paper
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Dinner Plate, 1926

• graphite on tracing paper
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Fruit Plates, Soup Plates, Dinner Plates, 1926

• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Footed Bowl

• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Drawing, Design for Round Fruit Bowl

• graphite on tracing paper, lined
• Gift of Frederick G. Weisser

Print, Woman in a Garden

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• woodcut, brush and watercolor on thin paper
• Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Department Fund

Drawing, Textile Design: Japanland

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Japanland

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Menuett (Minuet)

• Designed by Reni Schaschl-Schuster
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Menuett (Minuet)

• Designed by Reni Schaschl-Schuster
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Bambi

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Bambi, 1925

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Lenglen, 1927

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Lenglen

• brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Sport, 1928

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Sport

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Alpenkönig (King of the Alps), 1916–18

• Designed by Gertrude Weinberger
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Alpenkönig (King of the Alps), 1916–18

• Designed by Gertrude Weinberger
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Quadern (Ashlars)

• Designed by Valerie Wieselthier
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Quadern (Ashlars)

• Designed by Valerie Wieselthier
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Mandelkrähe (Roller)

• Designed by Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Mandelkrähe (Roller)

• Designed by Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Proklus

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Wundervogel (Miraculous Bird), 1911–19

• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Wundervogel [Miraculous Bird], 1911–19

• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Monte Zuma

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

• interior
• decoration
• designers
• repetition
• drama
• brightly colored
• textile design
• color choice
• totemic
• bold

Drawing, Textile Design: Monte Zuma

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

• pattern
• documentation
• repetition
• clients
• brightly colored
• textile design
• curved
• vines
• contrast

Drawing, Textile Design: Monte Zuma

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Monte Zuma

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Ozon (Ozone)

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Ozon (Ozone)

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Kiebitz

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Kiebitz

• Designed by Josef Hoffmann
• brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Flora

• Designed by Leopold Blonder
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Anilin (Aniline)

• Designed by Valentine Kovaćić
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Goldstickerei (Gold Embroidery)

• Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss
• graphite on tracing paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Goldstickerei (Gold Embroidery)

• Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Kassiopäa (Kasiopea)

• Designed by Fritzi Löw-Lazar
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Kassiopäa (Kasiopea)

• Designed by Fritzi Löw-Lazar
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Diomedes

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on cream paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Diomedes

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on cream paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Palatin, 1922

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Palatin

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Venusgärtchen [Venus' Little Garden]

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Venusgärtchen [Venus' Little Garden]

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Stakete [Stakette], 1911–17

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Stakete [Stakette]

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Irrgarten (Labyrinth)

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Irrgarten (Labyrinth), 1913

• brush and gouache, black ink, graphite on paper, laid down
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Orpheus

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Daphne

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and watercolor on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Draperie

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Draperie

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Merkur (Mercury)

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, watercolor on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Merkur (Mercury)

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache, watercolor on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Thymian

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Thymian

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Große Blätter (Large Leaves)

• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Große Blätter (Large Leaves)

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Große Blätter (Large Leaves), 1923

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Ariel

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers)

• brush and watercolor, black ink on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

These drawings, which document different colorways, might have been made for the various Wiener Werkstätte shops, as records for the individual designers, or for fabric printers who were outside contractors.

Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers)

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, watercolor, black ink on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Juniblumen (June Flowers)

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Sommerwinde (Summer Wind)

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Hutfeder (Feather on a Hat)

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and watercolor, gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Fixstern (Fixed Star)

• Designed by Maria Likarz-Strauss
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Distl [sic] (Thistle)

• Designed by Mathilde Flögl
• brush and gouache on cream illustration board
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

• drawing
• flowers
• vegetal
• abstract
• terra cotta
• minimal

Drawing, Textile Design: Marsblume

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Marsblume

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, pen and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Marsblume, 1923

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, plan and black ink, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Purpurnelke (Purple Pink)

• Designed by Felice Rix-Ueno
• brush and gouache, graphite on paper
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), which operated from 1903 to 1932, produced more than 1,800 different patterns for use in fashion, accessories, and interior furnishings. The designers of the Wiener Werkstätte borrowed freely from contemporary forms of abstraction, such as futurism and cubism, as well as from traditional folk-art motifs.

Drawing, Textile Design: Curzola

• brush and gouache on beige illustration board
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Drawing, Textile Design: Curzola

• Designed by Mathilde Flögl
• brush and gouache on white illustration board
• Museum purchase from Smithsonian Collections Acquisition and Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds

Poster, Wiener Werkstätte Mode Stoffe Kunstgewerbe Messaustellungen, Messepalast und die Kartnerstrasse 32 v. 41 [Public Exhibition of Fashion Fabrics Decorative Arts from the Vienna Workshops Exhibition Hall in the Karnterstrasse 32 v.41]

• Designed by Dagobert Peche
• lithograph on cream wove paper
• Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund

Print, Title Page, Die Quelle: Flächen Schmuck (The Source: Ornament for Flat Surfaces), plate 1

• Designed by Koloman Moser
• color lithograph on paper
• Gift of Jerrol E. Golden

• decoration
• design
• home
• profile
• graphic design
• women
• decorative
• stylized
• intertwined
• curving line
• interior designers
• art nouveau
• sample book
• hair
• innovative
• inspiration
• book designers

Print, Die reciproken Tänzerinnen (Reciprocal Dancers), Plate 25, in Die Quelle: Flächen Schmuck (The Source: Ornament for Flat Surfaces)

• Designed by Koloman Moser
• color lithograph on paper
• Gift of Jerrol E. Golden

• decoration
• design
• home
• graphic design
• abstraction
• women
• figurative
• decorative
• art nouveau
• sample book
• dancers

Print, Wandbehang Die Reifezeit (Harvest Time Wall Hanging), plate 7, in Die Quelle: Flächen Schmuck (The Source: Ornament for Flat Surfaces)

• Designed by Koloman Moser
• color lithograph on paper
• Gift of Jerrol E. Golden

• circles
• interior decoration
• graphic design
• pomegranate
• women
• interior designers
• Vienna
• fertility

The Harvest Time design refers to both plant and human fertility. Women in long robes decorated with checked borders hold pomegranates. The fruit is a traditional symbol of regeneration because of its numerous seeds. The black and white check motif alternates with the repeating circular fruits in a rhythmically patterned composition.

Print, Frau Nolda Gewebter Wandbehang (Madame Nolda, Woven Wall Hanging), plate 24, in Die Quelle: Flächen Schmuck (The Source: Ornament for Flat Surfaces)

• Designed by Koloman Moser
• color lithograph on paper
• Gift of Jerrol E. Golden

Textile, Apollo

• linen
• Museum purchase through General Acquisitions Endowment Fund