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KABARETT FLEDERMAUS
BY
JOSEF HOFFMANN
Year
1907
Status
Demolished
Material
Paper
Glue
Scale
1:50
Model maker
Barbara Gruber In 1907 Josef Hoffmann designed the Kabarett Fledermaus which was
to be built at the corner Kärntnerstrasse and Johannesgasse in the city
centre of Vienna. Josef Hoffmann was co-founder of the 1903 established
furniture and luxury accessory company Wiener Werkstätte. The
Wiener Werkstätte was also the owner of the Kabarett Fledermaus. The
establishment was based in the basement of the building and was entered
from Johannesgasse via stairs. Visitors passed through the marble covered
entrance and arrived in the entrance hall. On a floor plan covering 440m²,
Josef Hoffmann placed an entrance area, an auditorium with a gallery, a
stage, a backstage room, a restaurant kitchen and toilets.1 The entrance
hall included a bar and a wardrobe. The floor was covered in black and
white tiles. The walls and the bar were covered in 7000 coloured and
ornamented tiles by the artists Bertold Löffler and Michael Powolny. The
lower section of the main room was covered in dark grey marble, the rest
was painted white. The floor of the main room was covered with a carpet.
The Kabarett Fledermaus can be seen as a total work of art. The Wiener
Werkstätte, under the leadership of Josef Hoffmann, not only planned the
architecture, but also designed the furniture, the lights, the tableware, the
posters as well as the invitation cards. In 1913 the Kabarett Fledermaus
was sold by the Wiener Werkstätte due to financial problems.2
The model is made with the help of a sketch of the floor plan by Le
Corbusier who visited the Kabarett Fledermaus in 1907.
1 Sekler, Eduard F. (1982): Josef Hoffmann. Das architektonische Werk. Monoggraphie und Werkverzeichnis. Salzburg, Wien:
Residenz Verlag. 318-319.
2 Buhrs, Michael; Lesák, Barbara; Trabitsch, Thomas (Ed.) (2007): Kabarett Fledermaus 1907-1913: Ein Gesamtkunstwerk der Wiener
Werkstätte, Literatur, Musik, Tanz. Wien: Christian Brandstätter Verlag. 51-84.
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Demolished Modified Endangered
Modelling Austrian Architecture Of The 20th Century
- Titel
- Demolished Modified Endangered
- Untertitel
- Modelling Austrian Architecture Of The 20th Century
- Autoren
- Petra Peterson
- Wolfgang List
- Verlag
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2018
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-634-5
- Abmessungen
- 23.0 x 28.0 cm
- Seiten
- 200
- Schlagwörter
- TU Graz, Architektur, Architecture
- Kategorie
- International