![]() The Art Nouveau concept of a "total work of art " was fully realized in this magnificent house. In 1905, Hoffmann, Klimt and the Wiener Werkstätte artists, designed the Palais Stoclet, in Brussels, the Capital of Art Nouveau and city of Victor Horta. He is an important precursor of the Modern Movement and Art Deco. Hoffman's works combined functionality and simplicity of craft production with refined and innovative ornamental details and geometric elements. They aspired to the renaissance of the arts and crafts and to bring more abstract and purer forms to the designs of buildings and furniture, glass and metalwork, following the concept of total work of art. In 1903, he founded with architects Koloman Moser and Joseph Maria Olbrich, the Wiener Werkstätte for decorative arts. In 1897, inspired by Mackintosh and the Glasgow School, he was one of the founding members with Gustav Klimt, of an association of revolutionary artists and architects, the Vienna Secession. In 1898, he established his own practice in Vienna. ![]() Hasenauer, whose theories of functional, modern architecture profoundly influenced his works, and in 1896 he joined Wagner’s office. He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, under Art Nouveau architect Otto Wagner under Baron C. ![]() Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) was Austrian architect, interior designer and applied artist and designer of consumer goods. ![]()
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