Modern Print Monday: Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill

Print by Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill

Vienna

Collection of the Harvard Art Museum

Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill 1882-1961

Wimmer-Wisgrill was a student at Austria's Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) under Wiener Werkstätte masters Josef Hoffman amd Kolomon Moser. Upon his 1907 graduation he joined the workshop and became artistic director of the fashion department.

During the mid-twenties he lived in the United States, teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but returned to Vienna after a few years.

Postcard painting by Mela Koehler

of a dress designed by Wimmer-Wisgrill

from a printed fabric designed by Kolomon Moser

for the Weiner Werkstatte

The Wiener Werkstätte, theViennese Workshop,

was about collaboration as the above

costume and painting show.

Wimmer-Wisgill primarily designed

clothing from fabrics by other Workshop artists.

A collaboration with Gustav Klimt?

The print in this New Year's card is attributed to him

but it seems he specialized in costume---

Sonja Knips in a print similar to the Wimmer-Wisgrill

stripe above, 1911.

Autumn Sun by Wimmer-Wisgill, 1910-12,

Art Institute of Chicago

See more about this little known artist at these links

http://www.neuegalerie.org/collection/artist-profiles/eduard-josef-wimmer-wisgrill

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/search?field_artist_search=Eduard%20Josef%20Wimmer-Wisgrill

http://www.pinterest.com/Angharade/wiener-werkstatte-fashion/

http://austria-forum.org/af/Bilder_und_Videos/Historische_Bilder_IMAGNO/Wimmer%2C_Josef