Josef HOFFMANN (designer), WIENER WERKSTÄTTE, Vienna (commissioning workshop), J. SOULEK, Vienna (manufacturer)
Vitrine, from the Gallia apartment boudoir
(1913)
Medium
painted wood, gilt, glass, brass, (other materials)
Measurements
(a-e) 179.3 × 160.1 × 53.7 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Samuel E. Wills Bequest, 1976
© Estate of Josef Hoffmann
Gallery location
Mid 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
This Vitrine was from Hermine Gallia’s boudoir in which she entertained her female friends during the day. All the furniture was painted white with gilded carved details and upholstered in red silk ottoman, as seen on the back of the vitrine. The walls were hung with ‘Wedgwood-blue’ silk, woven with a stylised rose spray in red and green and the floor carpet was similar with a grid of blue squares and the rose motif placed regularly. The room also contained Gustav Klimt’s full-length portrait of Hermine which he completed in 1904, eight years before the Gallia’s commissioned Josef Hoffmann to design their apartment. Hermine’s portrait now hangs in the National Gallery, London.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Vienna, Austria
Accession Number
D154.a-e-1976
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Bow-fronted, five-lobed enclosed by fove full-length glazed doors or windows, fluted frieze and plinth.