Josef Hoffmann, Architect, Buildings, Vienna, Austria, Projects, Practice, House

Josef Hoffmann Architect : Architecture Information

20th Century Austrian Architecture

Josef Hoffmann - Practice Information

Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956)

Austrian architect
born in Brtnice (German = Pirnitz), Moravia, Austria
now Vysocina Region in Czech Republic

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

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

Hoffman died in Vienna

Vienna Architecture

photo from 2007 © architect Mint Orr

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

Josef Hoffmann : Austrian Architect

Links re Josef Hoffmann

Richard Neutra architect
Frank Lloyd Wright architect
JM Olbrich
Rennie Mackintosh
Otto Wagner

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