The 2019 annual exhibition in the Josef Hoffmann Museum in Brtnice, a joint exhibition of the Moravian Gallery, Brno, and the MAK, Vienna, is dedicated to Josef Hoffmann's (1870- 1956) association with Otto Prutscher (1880-1949). Like Hoffmann an architect and de-signer, Prutscher was master of all materials used in the applied arts. He was an exhibition designer, a teacher, and a member of the most important reform movements in art from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund. On the occasion of the 70th anni-versary of Otto Prutscher's death this year, the exhibition highlights the importance of his work for the development of Viennese Modernism.
The exhibition was realized through financial support from the European Regional Devel-opment Fund and is part of the project "Bilaterale Designnetzwerke," within the context of the INTERREG V-A Austria-Czech Republic program.
NEWS OF THE SEASON IN JOSEF HOFFMANN MUSEUM: Visitors of the Josef Hoffmann Museum can enjoy the newly opened garden, which offers refreshments in a mobile bar or a relaxation zone with a library. The architectural design in the garden was developed by Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers, an architectural office that has now won the Design Vanguard 2019 international award for best young architects. There i salso a new possibility to rend an e-bike Apache and explore the beauty of Brtnice (Historical City of 2018) and its surroundings.
The permanent exhibition at the Josef Hoffmann Museum now offers an interactive section for all inquisitive children. There is a table for architects, where (not only children) can make their own postcards with the motifs of Josef Hoffmann. You can also play an interactive quiz about life and work of Josef Hoffmann or you can build at will from wooden cubes.
In addition, the garden has a Freedomek by Atelier Štěpán - a low-energy mobile home that refers to the new direction of architecture and at the same time to a return to the roots of living. It will serve as a background for accompanying programs of the museum.
MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION JOSEF HOFFMANN - OTTO PRUTSCHER
Hoffmann worked with Prutscher for decades on projects such as the
Vienna Kunstschau of 1908 and the Cologne Werkbund exhibition of
1914, sharing with him an unbounded crea-tive drive. Today
Prutscher's recorded oeuvre includes over 50 buildings (villas,
apartment houses, and portals), nearly 50 exhibitions organized and
designed alone or with others, some 170 installations, over 300
designs for installations, and over 200 suites and individ-ual
pieces of furniture.
Prutscher's designs were implemented by more than 200 enterprises, principally the Wie-ner Werkstätte but also important manufactories such as Backhausen, Klinkosch, Augarten, Meyr's Neffe, Schappel and Melzer & Neuhardt, and the Deutsche Werkstätten in Dresden. In addition he was artistic advisor to Thonet, Loetz Witwe, and Wienerberger.
THE JOSEF HOFFMANN MUSEUM IS A JOINT BRANCH OF THE MORAVIAN GALLERY IN BRNO AND THE MAK, VIENNA.
The exhibition was realized the auspices of the Minster of Culture doc. Mgr. Antonín Staňek Ph.D.
The exhibition was realized the auspices of the Governor of the Vysočina Region, MUDr. Jiří Běhounek, the Governor of the South Moravian Region, JUDr. Bohumil Šimek and the Embassy of the Czech republic in Austria.
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