13.11.2024 – 09.03.2025
Joh. Backhausen & Söhne – founded in 1849 – is one of the most traditional furniture and decorative fabric manufacturers in Viennese history. From 1903 onwards, the company devoted itself intensively to collaborating with contemporary artists, including outstanding protagonists of Viennese Modernism such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Jutta Sika, Dagobert Peche, My Ullmann and Otto Prutscher. Backhausen specialised in the implementation of their designs and established itself as the main supplier to the Wiener Werkstätte initiated by Hoffmann, Moser and Fritz Waerndorfer. This fruitful symbiosis culminated in the furnishings of the Purkersdorf Sanatorium in 1904/05, the Villa Skywa-Primavesi in 1913-1915 and the Palais Stoclet in Brussels in 1905-1911. Based on various thematic complexes, the exhibition will provide an insight into the museum holdings of the Backhausen Archive and make them accessible to a broad public.
POESIE DES ORNAMENTS – The Backhausen Archive
13.11.2024 – 09.03.2025
Leopold Museum
Museumquartier Wien
Museumplatz 1
1070 Vienna
www.leopoldmuseum.org
