Many of his prints repeat in an offset, slanting motion and feature natural elements interpreted with decorative, curvy line work.
As one of its most creative exponents, Peche designed some three thousand objects, including china, furniture, book bindings, jewelry, fashions, textiles, and even Christmas tree decorations.ĭagobert Peche's textiles stood in stark contrast to many of the bold, geometric prints from the Werstatte, his work being more rounded and eclectic. The Wiener Werkstätte had been founded in 1903 by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and the banker Fritz Wärndorfer. Dagobert Peche joined the Wiener Werkstätte in 1915. His formal language at first revealed Baroque and Rococo influences, but he was also interested in standardizing forms and the new possibilities afforded by industrial mass production of crafts objects. Starting with mechanical engineering at the Technical Institute, he switched to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, where he studied architecture. She was influenced by Dagobert Peche and Maria Likarz Strauss.Ĭaliopsis 1930 Above Designs by Mathilde Floglĭagobert Peche studied in Vienna between 19. From 1918 she designed more than 120 textile patterns for the Wiener Werkstatte. She was admitted in 1916 at the Wiener Werkstatte. Mathilde Flogl learned design, applied graphic and creative enamelling and was trained under Joseph Hoffmann. Yet, she is most well known for her abstract patterns with infinite repeats, which reflect the international trends that led to the Art Deco Style. According to Daniel Walker, director of The Textile Museum in Washington DC, “she was the most active textile designer in the workshop, with almost 200 designs attributed to her.” Likarz-Strauss had a broad stylistic range that incorporated the stylized floral elements associated with Peche with the formal geometric patterns that originated with Hoffman. She seems to have been influential in her time however. Maria Likarz-Strauss was one of the most prolific pattern designers in the Vienna Workshops, but her name is rarely mentioned in books on the subject.