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Wiener Werkstatte: A Revolutionary Design Movement From Vienna |
| Section: THE ARTS / DESIGN |
| Author: Rosemary G. Rennicke |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,501 Words, 9,659 Characters |
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By the late nineteenth century, Vienna was well on its way to becoming a thoroughly modern city. The inexorable march of a new century was drowing out the waltz of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. Leaving aside the nostalgic, tradition-loving image of Strauss and strudel, smoke-filled cafes and comic operettas, Vienna produced some fearless minds that leapt into the future. Freud delved into man's unconscious, Schonberg explored atonal music, and Mach probed relative time and space before Einstein formulated his famous equation.
As a symbol of progress, the municipal government had ordered a boulevard lined with public architecture to be built over the site of the city's ancient walled fortifications. Yet these stunning monuments - the city hall, the university, and the imperial pala...
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... much more important mission. As a fulcrum between the past and the future, the group tipped the balance toward twentieth-century design. If today we admire Picasso's Cubism, Art Deco's sleekness, or the Bauhaus' designs as artistic innovations, we should remember that such modern movements follow in the footsteps of a group of Viennese craftsmen who once took a great stride toward the future.
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