I scanned these twenty postcards from the squat 1980s Austrian book Mail Art Anno Klimt, but searching tonight I see that a comprehensive collection is currently available titled Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte. The publisher's description of that book gives some background:The Wiener Werkstätte or Vienna Workshops was founded in 1903 by architect Josef Hoffmann and artist Koloman Moser. In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte began publishing a numbered series of postcards, which would ultimately include nearly 1,000 cards. Many of them were designed to celebrate holidays, such as Christmas and Easter. Fashion, both contemporary and historical, became another popular subject, along with humorous topics and favorite tourist spots of the period.
All of the major designers who worked for the firm were contributors in this medium including Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and Dagobert Peche. Other noteworthy artists who were active in this area whose names may be less familiar include Moriz Jung, Rudolf Kalvach, Mela Koehler, and Maria Likarz, among others.
This catalogue raisonné accompanies the first major museum exhibition ever held in the United States devoted exclusively to the postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte. The work in the exhibition is drawn exclusively from The Leonard A. Lauder Collection and coincides with the gift of nearly 1,000 of the cards to the Neue Galerie. A selection of these cards will be on view on a regular basis as part of the museum's permanent collection.
Ruldolf Kalvach, postcard 29
Hans Kalmsteiner, postcard 305
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, postcard 380
Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, postcard 381
Fritz Zeymer, postcard 151
Mela Koehler, postcard 556
Moriz Jung, postcard 96
Moriz Jung, postcard 82
Berthold Loffler, postcard 71
Rudolf Kalvach, postcard 148
Rudolf Kalvach, postcard 100
Oskar Kokoschka, postcard 78
Carl Otto Czeschka, postcard 252
Josef Diveky, postcard 501
Unknown, signed LZ, postcard 576
Maria Likarz, postcard 748
Mela Koehler, postcard 477
Moriz Jung, postcard 532
Moriz Jung, postcard 87
Urban Janke, Til Eulenspiegel, postcard 18
Previously: Kolo's Kinderbuch
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