A rosebush behind the hedge
Josef Hoffmann’s Villa Henneberg as a total work of art
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https://doi.org/10.36399/GroundingsUG.11.180Keywords:
Hoffmann, Villa Henneberg, Seccessionism, Gesamtkunstwerk, Vienna, KlimtAbstract
The domestic interior provided an important ground for the emerging modernist aesthetics of fin-de-siècle Vienna. This article attempts to broaden the discourse on the nature of the interior as a total work of art by analysing the interplay of elements such as exterior spaces, gardens, and cultural revival of the Biedermeier, in relation to Josef Hoffmann’s commission of the Villa Henneberg (1900–1901). This architectural project puts forward a unique visualisation of modernist thought where the Gesamtkunstwerk is embodied on multiple levels, and in which boundaries between exterior and interior become blurred. The villa thus comes to represent not only a synthesis of varied art forms but also a space in which its inhabitants subject themselves to becoming a part of the total work of art.
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