Admired by contemporaries as an artistic "jack - of - all -
trades", Koloman Moser (1868 - 1918) is regarded today as one of
the most important representatives of the Viennese Secession of
around 1900. As a graphic artist and designer Moser was
unparalleled in his artistic diversity, creating furniture,
textiles, and objects - for the Wiener Werkstatte among others -
that are icons of Modernism, as well as leaving behind an
impressive oeuvre of paintings. A group of progressive artists,
including Koloman M oser, founded "The Association of Visual
Artists of Austria, Secession" under the leadership of Gustav Klimt
in 1897. Moser in particular is considered the outstanding graphic
artist of the Secession, thanks to his design of posters,
exhibition concepts, a nd of the journal Ver Sacrum. He was the
ideal master for the formation of the Gesamtkunstwerk "Vienna circa
1900", hardly surpassed in imagination and productivity. He applied
his incredible virtuosity and inexhaustible fantasy to a variety of
materials. In 1903 Moser founded, together with Josef Hoffmann and
the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, the "Wiener Werkstatte"
[Viennese Workshops]. The close cooperation between the designing
artists and the master craftsmen allowed a completely new level of
qualit y of to be attained in artisan craftwork. After 1907 Koloman
Moser concentrated on painting once more. This publication presents
exceptional examples of his art, drawn primarily from the Leopold
Collection and situating them in a biographical and art histo rical
context.
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