Joseph Urban – From Vienna to New York
What is the connection between ‘The New School for Social Research’ in New York and Vienna’s ‘Rathauskeller’, the cellar restaurant in its city hall? The…
WeiterlesenWhat is the connection between ‘The New School for Social Research’ in New York and Vienna’s ‘Rathauskeller’, the cellar restaurant in its city hall? The…
WeiterlesenThe extent to which Vienna’s School of Arts and Crafts (Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule) was ahead of the aesthetic perceptions of its time in the early 20th…
”Charming and gracious, coupled with a fine feeling for decorative style: such are the works of this artist, whose gentle, female hand lends her pictures…
In Austria, political posters were in existence before the First World War, but they were essentially just filled with text. It was a different story…
Henry Steiner is one of the most influential graphic designers of our time. Brigitte Willinger has written a vivid and interesting portrait of the renowned…
These two conceptions would seem to hang together like Siamese twins. Every expert would say so and every reader would find it paradoxical to attempt…
“The arrangement of the first exhibition by the Vereinigung bildender Künstler Oesterreichs (Secession) [Association of Visual Artists in Austria] has now nearly reached its completion,”…
“Binder was a city lover whose thinking was entirely modern.” These were the words of Joseph Binder’s wife and long-standing companion Carla Binder, as she…