29.04.2026 – 10.01.2027
The exhibition has been organised following the acquisition of part of the estate comprising her impressive body of work from her American family. Wieselthier was a student of Josef Hoffmann and Michael Powolny at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and is regarded as the most prominent representative of the Wiener Werkstätte ceramics, a movement shaped entirely by female artists. From 1927 onwards, she headed the production facility and developed a new form of ceramic sculpture of a previously unknown expressiveness. The exhibition at the MAK draws on significant objects, some of which have never been shown before, from European collections and from Wieselthier’s estate in the USA. With the Wiener Werkstätte archive, the MAK already possesses unique sources and objects relating to her life and work, which are now substantially enriched by the donation of her entire paper estate to the museum. This enables us to trace the ceramicist’s development in Europe and her career in the USA, which is scarcely known in this country. With the exhibition VALLY WIESELTHIER: Image and Sound, the MAK is, for the first time, devoting itself comprehensively to the career of the Viennese ceramicist Vally Wieselthier (1895–1945) in Europe and in the United States, where she lived and worked from 1928 onwards.
VALLY WIESELTHIER – Image and Sound
29.04.2026 – 10.01.2027
Wien, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5
1010 Wien
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