Jan Toorop

Delftsche Slaolie

1895

The Virgins, no. 2 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts The Virgins speaks to a new chapter of Klimt’s artistic development. That it was sel...

DAS WERK GUSTAV KLIMTS, a portfolio of 50 prints, ten of which are multicolor collotypes on chine colle paper laid down on hand-made heavy cream wove paper with deckled edges; under ...

after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...

Koloman Moser (1868 –1918), AUSTRIAN Instead of applying his flair and art education solely to painting, Koloman Moser embodied the idea of Gesamt Kunstwerk (all-embracing art work) by designing architecture, furniture, jewelry, graphics, and tapestries meant to coordinate every detail of an environment. His work transcended the imitative decorative arts of earlier eras and helped to define Modernism for generations to come. Moser achieved a remarkable balance between intellectual structure (often geometric) and hedonistic luxury. Collaborating with Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann, the artist was an editor and active contributor to Ver Sacrum, (Sacred Spring), the journal of the Viennese Secession that was so prized for its aesthetics and high quality production that it was considered a work of art. The magazine featured drawings and designs in the Jugendstil style (Youth) along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. It quickly disseminated both the spirit and the style of the Secession. In 1903 Moser and Hoffmann founded and led the Wiener Werkstatte (Viennese Workshop) a collective of artisans that produced elegant decorative arts items, not as industrial prototypes but for the purpose of sale to the public. The plan, as idealistic then as now, was to elevate the lives of consumers by means of beautiful and useful interior surroundings. Moser’s influence has endured throughout the century. His design sensibility is evident from the mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and ‘60s to the psychedelic rock posters...

Signed, dated and inscribed 'JHToorop 1901 HAARDDEUR.' (lower left) Literature: A. Plasschaert, Jan Toorop, Amsterdam, 1925, no. 19 (illustrated pl. 22). Exhibitions: The Hague, Ge...

Woman's Head (Vrouwekop), Marguerite Adolphine Helfrich Drypoint, 1897 Signed lower right in pencil: J Toorop; by later hand Toorop's model for this print was Marguerite Adolphine H...

This exquisite heliogravure and collotype with metallic inks after Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), titled Bildnis Friederike Maria Beer (Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer), from the folio ...

This exquisite heliogravure and collotype after Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), titled Die Jurisprudenz (Jurisprudence), from the folio Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese (Gustav Klimt, A Posthum...