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Lot Essay
Cf: Die Wiener Werkstätte, Modernes Kunsthandwerk von 1903-1932, Exhibition Catalogue, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 22. May - 20. August 1967, p. 39, Cat. No. 16
Wiener Werkstätte Archive, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Möbel 2, pp. 73, 75
A comparable cabinet is illustrated in the bedroom of Dr. and Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein's apartment in Berlin in Art Revival in Austria, Special Number of the Studio, 1906, pl. c34.
For details of the commission for the Berlin apartment and further illustrations of the interior, see:
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XVIII, 1905/6, p. 149 et seq.
Eduard F. Sekler, Josef Hoffmann, Princeton, 1985, p. 292, Cat. No. 97
Werner Fenz, Koloman Moser, Salzburg & Vienna, 1984, p. 33
Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932, London, 1984, p. 167
The present cabinets were previously owned by Joseph Meinrad, a reknowned actor at the Burgschauspiel in Vienna, and remained with him throughout his life.
Wiener Werkstätte Archive, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Möbel 2, pp. 73, 75
A comparable cabinet is illustrated in the bedroom of Dr. and Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein's apartment in Berlin in Art Revival in Austria, Special Number of the Studio, 1906, pl. c34.
For details of the commission for the Berlin apartment and further illustrations of the interior, see:
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Vol. XVIII, 1905/6, p. 149 et seq.
Eduard F. Sekler, Josef Hoffmann, Princeton, 1985, p. 292, Cat. No. 97
Werner Fenz, Koloman Moser, Salzburg & Vienna, 1984, p. 33
Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte, Design in Vienna 1903-1932, London, 1984, p. 167
The present cabinets were previously owned by Joseph Meinrad, a reknowned actor at the Burgschauspiel in Vienna, and remained with him throughout his life.