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Sunday (and Monday for some) Show and Tell: Wiener Werkstätte beadwork
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Posted by: cicada

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03/15/2009, 16:54:44

Today I came across a small bag -9cm x 11cm- which comes from Vienna and which I believe to be a product of the Wiener Werkstätte. I was looking through old photos of Eastern Europe and I had forgotten that I had put this bag with the photo album because the design and colors reminded me of other Viennese work of the period. With the bag, here are two paintings by Gustav Klimt (a Wiener Werkstätte member along with several hundred architects, artists and craftsmen) showing a similar palette. For fun I have added photos of a Vienna apartment house showing a completely tiled facade which has similar colors and a similar aesthetic.

The steel beads of the bag are slightly less than 1mm across.

The Klimt portrait is of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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Posted by: cicada

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03/15/2009, 16:58:48

The beaded bag is known to be a Wiener Werkstätte design. (Thanks to artnet.com for this image.)

In the second portrait Johanna Staude is wearing a Wiener Werkstätte dress.

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Modified by cicada at Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 00:27:25

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Posted by: cicada

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03/15/2009, 17:05:27

The Majolikahaus by Otto Wagner (1899)

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Posted by: cicada

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03/15/2009, 17:09:25

Wiener Werkstätte beaded bags - nineteen teens through nineteen twenties.
(Thanks to Trocadero.com for left image.)

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03/15/2009, 17:26:18

Thanks to artnet.com for this image.

Modified by cicada at Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 00:29:00

Rather unusual beadwork! Thanks for showing it.
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03/15/2009, 22:40:00

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