Josef Hoffman
Josef Hoffman was a prominent member of the Viennese Secession, he was
born in Pirnitz-M?hren in 1870. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, he
studied under Karl Hasenauer and Otto Wagner and until 1937 he held a course in
architecture at the Kunstgewerbeschule of the Österreichisches Museum für Kunst
und Industrie. In 1903, together with Kolo Moser he founded the Wiener
Werkstätte. He developed his simple geometric shapes starting from the
curvilinear language of the European Art Nouveau. One of his most important
works was the Stoclet Palace in Brussels (1905-1911). He developed the
principles of the total work of art. He died in 1956