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Turn-of-the-Century Viennese Patterns and Designs

by Koloman Moser.
Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, U.S.A., 1998.
ISBN 0-486-40269-X.
Reviewed by Roy R. Behrens, Ballast Quarterly Review, 2022 X Avenue, Dysart, IA 52224-9767 U.S.A. E-mail: ballast@netins.net

Overshadowed by his colleagues Josef Hoffmann and Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser (1868-1918) is an unjustly neglected participant in the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, which he attended and later directed, the Vienna Secession, and the Wiener Werkstatte (or Vienna Workshop). Both prolific and versatile (he produced paintings, glassware, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, leatherwork, furniture, textiles, carpets, clothing, posters, and lettering, including his wedding invitation, reproduced above), he was also a founding contributor to Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring), the famous Secessionstil magazine. This large format, 64-page paperbound album is an unabridged republication of Flaschen-schmuck (Flat Ornament), a portfolio of 60 full-page allover pattern designs (half in color, half in black and white) for textiles, wallpaper, rugs, and wall hangings, that was published originally in 1901-02. This instructive, historic collection, like so many of Doverâs art-related books, belongs to its Pictorial Archives series, which means that portions of the book can be reproduced by authors, artists and designers without payment or permission. For a free catalog of the Dover Pictorial Archive, write to: Dover Publications, 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola NY 11501.
(Reprinted by permission from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Autumn 2000.)







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