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Twenty Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte

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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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