Main entry:

Überwindung der Utilität. English.

Title & Author:

Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte / edited by Peter Noever with contributions by Hanna Egger [and others].

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2002.

Description:

512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Exhibition held at MAK, the Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Feb. 11-May 17, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Ronald S. Lauder -- Foreword / Peter Noever -- Introduction / Renée Price -- Who is Peche? A brief biography with appreciations from his contemporaries / Anne-Katrin Rossberg -- Architecture as decor: Dagobert Peche and the architects of the "Second Viennese Modernist School" / Rainald Franz -- Inspirations from the bizarre and the grotesque: Peche between Beardsley and Baroque / Hanna Egger -- Image of Austria refracted: Paris in the mirror of Peche and the decorative arts in France, 1912 / Nancy J. Troy -- Dagobert Peche's role in the Wiener Werkstätte / Gabriele Fabiankowitsch -- Dagobert Peche and "the Viennese women's crafts" / Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber -- Beyond utility: furniture and interior design / Christian Witt-Dörring -- From heart-shaped leaf to fruit-laden bough: jewelry and metal objects / Elisabeth Schmuttermeier -- Material, technique, form without ornament: cased glass, faceting, perforated ceramics / Waltraud Neuwirth, Nina Claudia Trauth -- Dagobert Peche's works in glass / Ernst Ploil -- Patterns and colors: Peche's designs for textiles and wallpapers / Angela Völker -- Geometry romanticized ; On the track of "Fräulein Thilde" / Nikolaus Schaffer -- Five letters to Daphne: reconstructing a passion (facsimiles of two letters by Peche to Mathilde Junger) / August Ruhs -- "Burning bush," 1922 / Dagobert Peche -- Furnishings -- Frames/mirrors -- Metalwork -- Ceramics -- Glass -- Leather/bookbinding -- Mixed media -- Jewelry -- Fashion -- Textiles -- Wallpaper -- Works on paper.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"With contributions by Hanna Egger, Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Rainald Franz, Waltraud Neuwirth and Nina Claudia Trauth, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Ernst Ploil, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, August Ruhs, Nikolaus Schaffer, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Nancy J. Troy, Angela Volker, and Christian Witt-Doring."
"Dagobert Peche (1887-1923) was one of the key figures of the Austrian arts and crafts movement. Along with Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, Peche determined the character of the Wiener Werkstatte with his designs. Hoffmann, who first hired Peche as his assistant but was later strongly influenced by him, wrote after Peche's death in 1923: "Dagobert Peche was Austria's greatest genius in ornamentation since the days of the Baroque ... All of Germany has experienced a new stylistic epoch thanks to Peche's designs." The contribution made by Peche to decorative arts is now being given the critical attention it deserves, especially against the backdrop of postmodernism.
Peche's extravagant use of materials, imaginative eclecticism, formal boldness, courageous playfulness, and decisive instinct are all indicative of his creative brillance." "This illustrated book aims to expand the understanding of Austrian arts and crafts at the turn of the twentieth century and to give Peche's work - which ranges from interior and exhibition design to furniture, fashion and textile design, ceramics, glass, metalwork, jewelry, and wallpaper - its proper due in this rich context."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300096283 (alk. paper)
9780300096286 (alk. paper)
1931794073
9781931794077

Subject:

Peche, Dagobert, 1887-1923 Exhibitions.
Peche, Dagobert, 1887-1923 Expostions
Peche, Dagobert, 1887-1923
Wiener Werkstätte Exhibitions.
Wiener Werkstätte Expositions
Wiener Werkstätte
Decorative arts Austria History 20th century Exhibitions.
Drawing Austria 20th century Exhibitions.
Drawing Australia History 20th century Exhibitions.
Decorative arts Australia History 20th century Exhibitions.
Dessin Australie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts décoratifs Australie Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts décoratifs Autriche Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Dessin Autriche 20e siècle Expositions.
Decorative arts
Drawing
Austria

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues
Exhibition catalogs.
Letters (correspondence)
Facsimiles (reproductions)
exhibition catalogs.
History
Books.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Noever, Peter, 1941- editor.
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224616
Call No.: NA44.P365.6 D3 2002
Status: Available