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DAGOBERT PECHE (St. Michael 1887 - 1923 Mödling)

Elephant and lamb, 1919
pastel/paper 27 x 19 cm
dated 1919

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 500 - 800
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 500

The Austrian Dagobert Peche was considered the most imaginative artist of the Wiener Werkstätte (WW). Peche studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Technische Hoschule (Technical College) with Karl König, Karl Mayreder, Leopold Simony and Max von Ferstel and from 1908 to 1911 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Friedrich Ohmann. After a study trip to England, the influence of the black and white technique of the graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley became crucial for his further development. Awarded the Gold Medal and three prizes in 1911, Peche spent two months in Paris in 1912 thanks to the Prix de Rome. The publisher Alexander Koch in Darmstadt, who recognized Peche's unusual talent, enabled him to publish in the magazine "Art and Decoration". His creative imagination, which placed decorative form over functional form, enlivened all arts and crafts areas: wallpaper industry, fabric printing, lace making. Goldsmith's art and ivory carving, mirror frames and furniture shapes, ceramics and metal goods, the paper industry and fashion (so-called ombré colors) were also influenced by his formal language. His original wallpaper designs at the k.k. wallpaper exhibition Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in 1913 first drew public attention to him, and his works at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914 also made his name known in Germany. His talents reached their full potential when Josef Hoffmann asked him to work for the WW in 1915. Peche became known for his love of unused, manneristically playful objects, over-engineered luxury items and his capricious imagination. In 1916, after the Vienna Fashion Exhibition in 1915/16, he took over management of the Zurich branch of WW. Returning to the company headquarters in Vienna in 1920, he successfully took part in the art exhibitions of 1920 and 1921. Peche created the WW exhibition stand for the Vienna international fair, which was held for the first time in the court stables from September 11, 1921. In 1922 he exhibited his wallpaper designs, which he had created at Flammersheim & Steinmann in Cologne, at the Munich trade show. Exhibitions: 1923 exhibition of works of modern Austrian arts and crafts. Dagobert Peche Memorial Exhibition, Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (today: MAK – Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna. 1998 – Overcoming utilitarianism. Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte MAK, Vienna. Further artists and styles: Design, Viennese Modernism, Art Nouveau, Pop Art, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Vally Wieselthier, Michael Powolny, Carl Otto Czeschka, Gustav Klimt, Mathilde Flögl, Carl Moll, Berthold Löffler, Oswald Haerdtl, Otto Prutscher, Lilly Reich, Gudrun Baudisch, Jutta Sika, Susi Singer, Maria Likarz, Carl Breuer, Richard Luksch, Emil Orlik, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel

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