Bracelet
Josef Hoffmann played an important part in the history of modern design, as co-founder of both the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte. This bracelet combines several elements of Hoffmann's design ethic. In his jewelry, he favored rectilinear forms encasing more curvilinear ones, which often invoked elements of nature. The openwork style of this bracelet relates to his grid designs, known as gitterwerk.
Artwork Details
- Title: Bracelet
- Designer: Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, Pirnitz 1870–1956 Vienna)
- Date: ca. 1922
- Medium: Gold
- Dimensions: 7/8 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (2.2 × 7.3 × 6.4 cm)
- Classification: Jewelry
- Credit Line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020
- Object Number: 2021.54.17
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Josef Hoffmann
late 19th–early 20th century
Josef Hoffmann
Wiener Werkstätte
ca. 1900
Josef Hoffmann
ca. 1920
Josef Hoffmann
ca. 1920
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ca. 1920
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