Josef Hoffmann / Wiener Werkstätte - BROOCH

Date	around 1908
Period	around 1908
Origin	Austrian
Medium	silver, Malachite
Dimensions	3.7 x 5.3 cm (1¹/₂ x 2¹/₈ inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, around 1908
Executed by: Wiener Werkstätte
Marked: WW, Austrian hallmark, head of Diana, (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), A (for Vienna)

Silver, malachite (some cracks)

3.7cm x 5.3 cm

The letters in the centre of the brooch can be read as "E AST". The brooch was a gift to Elsa Ast, née Bacher, a jeweller’s daughter and the wife of physician Wilhelm II. Ast, who was a brother of the master builder Eduard Ast.
Sincere thanks to Dr Heinz Adamek for his kind information.

Exhibited at: “Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst“, Gustav Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, 2016

Date: around 1908
Period: around 1908
Origin: Austrian
Medium: silver, Malachite
Signature:

Marked: WW, Austrian hallmark, head of Diana, (A for Vienna, 2 for 900/1000), A (for Vienna)

Dimensions: 3.7 x 5.3 cm (1¹/₂ x 2¹/₈ inches)
Provenance: private
property, Austria

Literature:

Ref.: Tretter/Weinhäupl (eds.),
Gustav Klimt. Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst, Gustav
Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, exhib. cat., Vienna, 2016

Exhibitions: “Emilie Flöge. Reform der Mode, Inspiration der Kunst“, Gustav Klimt Zentrum am Attersee, 2016

Categories: Silver