Hoffmann, Josef (1870 - 1956)
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Austrian architect, designer and teacher. A student of Otto Wagner at the Vienna Academy. In 1897
he was among the artists who founded the group of Viennese artists known as the Secession. From
1899 he taught at the architecture department of the School of Applied Arts in Vienna. Along with
Gustav Klimt, he left the Secession group in 1903 and joined Koloman Moser and Fritz Waemdorfer
to found the group Wiener Werkstátte. In 1908 he organized the remarkably successful Kunstschau
exhibition. Between 1912 and 1920 he helped found the Austrian Werkbund. He designed the
Austrian pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of 1925. A retrospective exhibition of his work
was held in Vienna in 1941.
