Josef Hoffmann

Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) was an Austrian architect and designer who co-founded the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte. His work joined geometric forms with carefully coordinated architecture, interiors, and furnishings.

Stoclet Palace: A Brussels mansion designed by Josef Hoffmann and completed in 1911, noted for its integrated architecture, interiors, and art. This Gesamtkunstwerk brings Hoffmann’s coordinated design approach to its fullest expression.
Gesamtkunstwerk: A total work of art that unifies multiple art forms into a coherent whole. This ideal explains Hoffmann’s integration of buildings, interiors, and furnishings.
Vienna Secession: An artists’ association founded in Vienna in 1897 to promote contemporary art outside established institutions. Hoffmann co-founded the movement as a challenge to academic artistic conventions.
Austrian Pavilion at the 1900 Paris Exposition: An exhibition pavilion designed by Josef Hoffmann for Austria at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. It presented Hoffmann’s emerging design language to an international audience.
Palais Stoclet dining room: A dining room in Stoclet Palace whose decoration includes a mosaic frieze by Gustav Klimt. Its richly coordinated surfaces reveal how Hoffmann framed the work of other artists.
Wiener Werkstätte: A Viennese design workshop and production association founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser with Fritz Waerndorfer. Hoffmann used its network of craftspeople to realize coordinated designs across media.
Otto Wagner: An Austrian architect and theorist who advocated adapting architecture to modern life and materials. Wagner taught Hoffmann and helped form his approach to modern architecture.
Austrian Pavilion at the 1908 Paris Exposition: An exhibition pavilion designed by Josef Hoffmann for Austria at the 1908 Paris Exposition. Its presentation of Austrian design extended the international reach of Hoffmann’s work.
Sanatorium Purkersdorf: A modernist sanatorium near Vienna designed by Josef Hoffmann and completed in 1904. Its restrained geometry shows Hoffmann’s architecture before Stoclet Palace’s greater ornament.
Koloman Moser: An Austrian artist and designer who co-founded the Wiener Werkstätte with Josef Hoffmann. Their collaboration connected Hoffmann’s architectural practice to graphic and product design.

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