GX1993.126

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 77; Larghezza: 115; Profondità: 65

legno di noce intarsiato-intagliato

One of the leading students of Otto Wagner's school, which also trained Joseph Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann, architect Leopold Bauer, originally from Silesia but working in Vienna, won the 1900 Haus eines Kunstfreundes competition organised by art publisher Alexander Koch, who had founded the magazine Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration in Darmstadt in 1897 . His cabinet is decorated with an inlay depicting a pair of dancers, executed by the Viennese Secessionist painter Maximilian Lenz, which can also be found on the doors of one of his contemporary chests of drawers and, curiously, also appears on a door in the music room designed in 1898 by Joseph Maria Olbrich in the Austrian capital. The walnut and brass cabinet is decorated with a mother-of-pearl, wood and ivory inlay depicting a pair of dancers on each rectangular panel.