GX1993.46a-e

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 269; Larghezza: 212; Profondità: 66

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The Credenza was part of the Blaues or Hessisches Zimmer (The Blue Room), designed by the Austrian architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, the founder, together with Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, of the Viennese Secession and author of the palace of the same name, built in Vienna in 1897-1889. In 1899 Olbrich was called upon by the Grand Duke of Hesse Ernst Ludwig von Hessen to direct the design of the Artists' Colony in Darmstadt. The Blaues Zimmer was exhibited by Olbrich, again on behalf of the Grand Duke of Hessen, in the German section at the 1902 Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin. For this work, the architect was awarded first prize by the International Jury. The sideboard in the Wolfsoniana originally had a grey-blue colour, as attested by magazines of the time. The counter cupboard, now preserved in Darmstadt at the Artists' Colony Museum, was also deprived of its original colour. Impressive sideboard with rounded volumes made of carved oak, decorated with brass and embossed copper applications.