Collection Online as of November 29, 2023

Two-Handled Cup

c. 1922

designer

Josef Hoffmann

(Austrian, 1870–1956)

maker

Wiener Werkstätte

(Austria, Vienna, 1903–32)

Austria, Vienna

Brass

Overall: 18.8 x 27.9 x 18.3 cm (7 3/8 x 11 x 7 3/16 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1983.71

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

This two-handled brass cup, designed by Josef Hoffmann in Vienna, shows the influence of a young Dagobert Peche, who brought a more whimsical sensibility to the Wiener Werkstätte when he became the design director in 1916.

Description

Greatly influenced by German and Austrian neoclassical design from the early 1800s, Josef Hoffmann’s cup mixes classical fluting with a surface showing hammer marks, which catch the light and are typical of early 20th-century handwork.

Citations

Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 108, p. 78; Mentioned: p. 77

Exhibition history

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (12/19/04-4/3/05); Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum (5/19-9/5/05); Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art (10/16/05-1/8/06): "The Arts & Crafts Movement in Europe and America: Design for the Modern World"

The Cleveland Museum of Art; "The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s." Sept. 30, 2017-Jan. 14, 2018.

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2005-January 8, 2006).

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).