Almanach der Wiener Werkstätte. - Lot 92

Almanach der Wiener Werkstätte. Vienna, Leipzig : les frères Rosenbaum, [1911]. - In-12, 160 x 131: (1 f.), 126 pp. 12 plates. Publisher's orange cloth boards, decorated with cold repetition on the boards, smooth spine. Superb and rare almanac published by Austrian playwright, novelist and poet Max Mell (1882-1971). The texts are signed by authors such as Hedda Sauer, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Anton Wildgans, Raoul Auernheimer, Peter Altenberg, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Blei, Arthur Roessler and many others. This work is emblematic of the Wiener Werkstätte, otherwise known as the Viennese Workshop, an arts and crafts movement founded in Vienna in 1903. This movement is renowned for its integrated approach to art and design, aimed at combining aesthetics and functionality. The illustrations include 12 plates reproducing, in black and in color on coated paper, works by emblematic artists of this movement, such as Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, Carl Otto Czeschka, Koloman Moser, Moritz Jung, Oskar Kokoschka, Bertold Löffler and Albert Paris Gütersloh. A very well preserved copy, in publisher's boards.