Dagobert PECHE (1887-1923)

Frame Prototype, 1922
Manufactured by Max Welz, Vienna, for the Wiener Werkstätte.
Model number WW19

Carved linden wood.
47 x 44 cm

Inscription on the reverse: WW19, MODELL

Provenance:
Welz family.

Bibliography:
– WWW-Archives, MAK Vienna, design sketch KI 12683-2
-Max Eisler, Dagobert Peche, Vienna and Leipzig 1925, ill. p. 50
-Exhibition catalogue “Die Überwindung der Utilität – Dagobert Peche und die Wiener Werkstätte”, ed. by Peter Noever, MAK, Vienna 1998, ill. p. 206, cat. no 1

Peche’s arrival at the Wiener Werkstätte in 1915 brought new artistic impulses that influenced Hoffmann’s own creations.

Peche, who, after his studies, spent six months in Paris in 1911, drew his unrestrained inspiration from Louis XV style, old masters, Rococo style… or Cubism, which he transposed with unparalleled drawing talent into fashion and decoration.

This resulted in surprising creations, marvelous in their grace and poetry… and sometimes bordering on kitsch.

This extremely refined, leaf-patterned frame, a model for a small-series production of a fine gold-gilded mirror, is a beautiful example of his talent.