Koloman (Kolo) MoserAutriche, 1868–1918Surface Decoration
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This portfolio of thirty graphic designs by the Austrian artist Koloman Moser was created as a pattern book for surface coverings of all kinds. Published in Vienna in 1902, it was the third in of a series of commercial graphics portfolios produced under the name "The Source" (Die Quelle) and took its place among the many other model and pattern books that had become popular around the turn of the century. Each lithograph in the portfolio is printed in one of four pairs of colors and inset with a decorative cartouche bearing the design's title and intended use in carefully coordinated script. In some cases Moser also incorporated a complementary emblem or motif. Moser's creations range from his whimsical bathroom wall decoration "Waves of the Danube"
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(no. 4), composed of rows of interlocking mermaids, to more severely abstract designs for carpets, printed fabrics, and endpapers, illustrating the Viennese taste for repeated geometric forms and flat decorative pattern. Together the designs exemplify the turn-of-the-century belief that art should enter every aspect of life, which became a guiding principle for the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), the design collaborative that Moser co-founded in 1903 with Josef Hoffmann and Fritz Wärndorfer.
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Pendant ce temps, chez Koloman (Kolo) Moser
La vie entière1900
To the World Exhibition in Paris
In 1900 he travels to the World Exhibition in Paris via Munich and Strasbourg.
1900–1902
The portfolio “Die Quelle” (“The Source”)
With Martin Gerlach and Carl Otto Czeschka he publishes the three-volume portfolio “Die Quelle” (“The Source”) of elegant graphic designs for tapestries, fabrics and wallpaper.
1902
A new studio at Steinfeldgasse 19
He moves into a new studio at Steinfeldgasse 19 and furnishes it with furniture of his own design.
1903
Founds the Wiener Werkstätte
Together with Josef Hoffmann and the entrepreneur Fritz Waerndorfer he founds the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) to produce decorative and applied-art objects on the model of the Arts and Crafts movement. The workshops turn out glassware, flatware, rugs, textiles, graphic designs and eventually clothing, and become the new commercial standard for Viennese art.
summer 1903
Meets Ferdinand Hodler and Cuno Amiet
In the summer of 1903 he travels via Munich to Bern, where he meets Ferdinand Hodler, who will greatly influence his work (they meet in person twice), and Cuno Amiet; he then goes on to Basel, Paris, Bruges, Scheveningen, Antwerp, Lübeck and Hamburg.
September 1904
First Wiener Werkstätte exhibition in Berlin
In September 1904 he takes part in the first exhibition of the Wiener Werkstätte in Berlin.
