Key Building:
Palais Stoclet (aka Stoclet Palace), Brussels 1905-11

Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956)
Austrian architect
born in Brtnice (German = Pirnitz), Moravia, Austria now Vysocina Region in Czech Republic

Josef Hoffmann - Buildings (alphabetical):
Hohe Warte houses, Vienna, Austria
-
Moser House, Vienna, Austria
1901-03
Stoclet Palace, Brussels, Belgium
1905-11
Sanatorium Purkersdorf, Wienerstraße 64, Purkersdorf bei Wien
1904-05

Education:
Technical College, Brno 1887
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Tutors: Carl von Hasenauer / Otto Wagner

Rome Prize winner 1895

Early Practice:
Joined Otto Wagner office in 1896
Josef Hoffman set up on his own in 1898

Teaching:
Viennese School of Applied Arts - Wien Kunstgewerbeschule, Austria
1899-1936

Founding member of Vienna Secession (1897) + Wiener Werkstätte (1903)
Secessionist architect - relationship to Art Deco plus Art Nouveau

Hoffman died in Vienna



Austrian architect

Vienna Architecture

Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice, Vysocina Region, Czech Republic
Located since 2006 in the house in which the architect was born

Links re Josef Hoffmann:
Richard Neutra architect
Frank Lloyd Wright architect
JM Olbrich
Rennie Mackintosh
Otto Wagner



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Josef Hoffmann, architect - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt