
Wiener WerkstätteIn the year 1903, when a large number of artists and craftsmen joined togehter under the name of "Wiener Werkstätte", Austria's capital was in its heyday as a leader amongst the great cities of world.
Its objective was the conscious artistic design of everyday items, just as much as art objects.
The Bank Austria Kunstforum presents out of this great time a silk scarf from Josef Hoffmann, one of the founder of the Wiener Werkstätte from the year 1910.

Ivan Konstantinovitch Aivazovsky, Golf of neapel,1841
© The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, St. Petersburg, 2010 (detail)