Diana Candlestick by Karl Hagenauer for Werkstatte Hagenauer, 1923

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Vintage Design

Candlestick “Diana”, Karl Hagenauer, Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien, early version around 1923, brass, marked The pupil of Josef Hoffmann and freelance worker for the Wiener Werkstätte Karl Hagenauer was one of the leading creators of the Viennese Design. Until the end of the 1920s, Josef Hoffmann tasked the talented Karl Hagenauer with some designs for the Wiener Werkstätte. However, from circa 1930 onwards, his whole attention was drawn to the Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien. This piece clearly shows the beginning of the rejection of the Wiener Jugendstil and the slow attraction towards Art Deco. The floral ornaments are classical style elements of the Jugendstil while the stand and the figurines show a clear reduction of the shape and a progress of the trend towards a dynamic form language. The two brothers Hagenauer have elevated this dynamic form language to a new trend in art. This candlestick also bears the initials “KH” for Karl Hagenauer and seems to be one of his early designs. This candlestick bears the rare marking “KH” for Karl Hagenauer and thus probably belongs to one of the first versions;Bib.: Olga Kronsteiner in Monika Wenzl-Bachmeier (ed.), „Hagenauer – Wiener Moderne und Neue Sachlichkeit“ (Hagenauer – Viennese Modernism and New Realism), exhibition catalogue, Vienna, 2011, p.28

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Creator	Josef Hoffmann
Design Period	1920 to 1949
Year	1923
Production Period	1920 to 1929
Identifying Marks	This piece is attributed to the above-mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark
Style	Vintage, Art Deco
Detailed Condition	Very Good — This vintage/antique item has no defects, but it may show slight traces of use.
Restoration and Damage Details	Light wear consistent with age and use
Product Code	TJY-1246709
Materials	Brass
Color	Gold
Width	25 cm 24.5 cm
Depth	6 cm 6 cm
Height	30 cm 29.5 cm

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About the Creator

Josef Hoffmann

Architect-designer Josef Hoffmann was born in 1870 in Prinitz, Moravia (now Brtnice, the Czech Republic). He studied architecture at the Senior State Commercial and Technical School in Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic). After a year of practice in Würzburg, Germany, he moved to Vienna, the city where he would remain for the rest of his life. He enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts there, and, between 1892 and 1895, studied under both Karl von Hasenauer and Otto Wagner. From 1896 to 1897, he worked in Wagner’s Vienna studio. He also became one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession, a group of artists (including Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and others) who favored a modern, experimental approach to the arts. Hoffman’s contributions to several Secession exhibition installations, all influenced by the Art Nouveau-Jugendstil style, helped establish his name. In 1899, he was appointed a professor at Vienna’s Kunstgewerbeschule, a position he held until his retirement in 1936. He taught in the school’s architecture, metalwork, enamel, and applied art departments.

Around 1900, Hoffmann became a proponent of the Gesamtkunstwerk (or total work of art) approach, exemplified through unified architecture and interior design, with an emphasis on craftsmanship. He was cofounder and co-artistic director, alongside Koloman Moser, for the new Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) beginning in 1903. In 1905, he left the Secession, and received the commission to design the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Completed in 1911, the Stoclet was arguably Hoffmann’s most important architectural project.

Throughout his prolific 50-year career, Hoffmann designed everything from textiles to furniture, fashion, jewelry, exhibitions, and buildings for prestigious clients like Lobmeyr and Lötz. Later in his life, he focused primarily on housing projects. Aesthetically, his work evolved from Jugendstil to more minimal, geometric forms and then on toward neoclassicism.

He died in Vienna in 1956.