The exhibition opens with Moser's career as a painter and illustrator in particular, showing works he carried out as co-founder of the Vienna Secession, among them illustrations for their journal Ver Sacrum as well as beautifully evocative posters and other prints. Christian Witt-Dörring, the Vienna-based curator of decorative arts for the Neue Galerie, Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna, 1897-1907 features a wide variety of exquisite objects in a range of media and art forms: ceramics, furniture, glass, graphic design and ephemera, jewelry, metalwork, textiles and designs for architectural interiors, objects and other projects. 'This exhibition has been designed to showcase Moser’s remarkable decorative-arts career.'Ĭurated by Dr. 'Koloman Moser was an extraordinary designer whose work remains a touchstone over a century later,' said Cindi Strauss, MFAH curator of Modern & Contemporary Decorative Arts and Design and coordinating curator of the exhibition in Houston. 'While contemporaries like Josef Hoffmann and Gustav Klimt are by now household names, Moser and his work will be a revelation for the American public.' 'The stunning work of Koloman Moser offers insight into the emergence of modern art and design in the fascinating crucible that has come to be known as Vienna 1900,' said MFAH director Gary Tinterow.

The exhibition is co-organized by the MFAH and the Neue Galerie New York, where it opened on to critical praise, before coming to Houston, the only other venue. The exhibition is on view from September 29, 2013, to January 12, 2014.

Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna, 1897 – 1907 surveys Moser's decorative-arts career with 200 objects, from furniture, jewelry, silver and ceramics to graphic design and architectural interiors. Houston-July 2013-This September, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, launches its fall season with a landmark exhibition of the work of Viennese artist and designer Koloman Moser (1868–1918), the first museum retrospective in the United States to focus on this leading figure of the modern design revolution that swept Vienna around 1900. Photo © Ernst Ploil, ViennaĪ pioneer of modern design, Moser excelled in furniture design, ceramics, jewelry, silverwork and was also an innovative graphic artistįirst-ever American retrospective is co-organized with the Neue Galerie New York Müller, probably Vienna maple (formerly stained gray), marquetry of different woods, mother-of-pearl and ivory inlay, Ernst Ploil, Vienna. Koloman Moser, Wardrobe from the Bedroom of the Eisler von Terramare Apartment, 1902–03, execution: J. 1903, execution: Prag-Rudniker Korbwaren Fabrication beechwood, painted white woven cane seat, painted black and white. 4003, 1899, execution: Johann Backhausen & Söhne, Vienna wool, silk, and cotton, MAK–Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna Koloman Moser, Schwämme (Mushrooms), design no. S 21, silver and niello, Neue Galerie New York. Koloman Moser, Sugar Box, 1903, execution: Wiener Werkstätte, Adolf Erbrich (silversmith) model no. Koloman Moser, Poster for Frommes Kalender, 1899, execution: Albert Berger, Vienna, colored lithograph on paper, Serge Sabarsky Collection, New York. Koloman Moser, Belt Buckle, 1904, execution: Wiener Werkstätte, Anton Pribil (goldsmith) model no. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY Koloman Moser, Poster for the Thirteenth Vienna Secession Exhibition, 1902, printer: Albert Berger, Vienna colored lithograph on paper, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of Joseph H. 1903, MAK–Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna. 'demonstrates the rising verticality and integration of flowing curves with rectangular structure that are hallmarks of their mature work.Unknown artist, Photograph of Koloman Moser, c. Art Nouveau tendencies tempered with strong geometric and rectilinear Also heavily influenced by Beardsley and Toorop Defined the Glasgow Style's fusion of influences including the Celtic design influence, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Japonisme

Importance of Celtic imagery, with motifs and style of lettering inspired by carvings on seventeenth century tombstones Ghostly ghoulish images portraying 'hobgoblins by misty moonlight' Herbert Nair (who was also part of 'The Four') They were sisters and Frances was married to J. Margaret and Frances were a part of the Glasgow School's 'The Four'.

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