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(VIENNA SECESSION/WIENER WERKSTÄTTE.) Portfolio of 17 color linoleum cuts for toys by students of Josef Hoffmann at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule. 17 linoleum cuts of designs for wooden toys and a few decorative objects, all vibrantly hand-watercolored, signed by the artists, and often dated 1922 in pencil, lower right. Each 300x230 mm, 11 3/4x9 1/4 inches, sheets; plates and hand-written title-page in pencil laid into an orange paper folder with printed yellow title label, folds reinforced with archival tissue; plates with occasional creasing (mostly from paper quality); modern custom orange board slipcase with title printed in black on cover and spine. (Vienna, 1922)
Charming designs of toys, including toy soldiers, figures, decorative pieces, animals, and birds. Hoffmann led several design classes in his capacity as director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts). The school was arguably the most important bastion of the Secessionist movement as it was an important training ground for Wiener Werkstätte employees, 80% of whom were graduates. Images and signatures here include notable Werkstätte artists such as Christa Erlich (collaborator with Hoffmann on the Sonja Knips house), fashion illustrator Gertrud Höchsmann, glass designer Wilhelm Rösler, and Fridl Steininger, costume designer and future wife of architect Walter Loos.
