Dagobert Peche

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Dagobert Peche (born April 3, 1887 in Sankt Michael im Lungau , Salzburg, † April 16, 1923 in Mödling ) was an Austrian artist and was considered the most imaginative representative of the Wiener Werkstätte .

Photo taken around 1920

Life

Dagobert Peche was born in Lungau and spent his childhood in Oberndorf near Salzburg . After attending secondary school in Salzburg , he came to Vienna and studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Technical University with Karl König (1841-1915), Karl Mayreder (1856-1935), Leopold Simony (1859-1929) and Max von Ferstel ( 1859–1936) and from 1908 to 1911 at the Academy of Fine Arts with Friedrich Ohmann (1858–1927).

After a study trip to England, the influence of the pure black and white technique of the graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) became decisive for his further development and became visible in small and occasional graphics . Awarded the gold medal and three prizes in 1911 , he was able to spend two months in Paris in 1912 thanks to the Prix ​​de Rome . The publisher Alexander Koch (1860–1939) in Darmstadt, who had recognized Peches unusual talent, made it possible for him to publish in the journal Art and Decoration . Here Peche proved to be the ornamenter who always found the right shape and gave new life to the frozen handicrafts of his time. His creative imagination, which placed decorative form over functional form, enlivened all arts and crafts areas and found new decorative design possibilities for every material and every technique: in the wallpaper industry and fabric printing, in lace making and embroidery with appealing fabric patterns and colors. Goldsmith's art and ivory carving, mirror frames and furniture forms, ceramics and metal goods, paper industry and fashion (so-called ombré colors) were also influenced by his design language. An example of this period is his cupboard for a reception salon made of pear wood for the 45th Secession Exhibition in 1913, today in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.

His original wallpaper designs at the wallpaper exhibition of the kk Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in 1913 first drew public attention to him, his work at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914 made his name known in Germany as well.

But his talent did not fully develop until 1915 when Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) asked him to work as an artist in the Wiener Werkstätte . Peche became known for his love of purposeful mannerist-playful objects, over-bred luxury objects as well as his capricious imagination, which formed the basis of his designs.

In 1916, after successfully organizing the Vienna fashion exhibition in 1915/16 , he took over the management of the Zurich branch of the Wiener Werkstätte. There, with more rhythm and movement, a change in style took place, there was an enrichment of the flower and leaf decoration, a connection between body and plant ( Daphne motif), influenced by Rococo ( little pitch stars ) and Chinese brush drawings.

Memorial plaque on the Peches apartment in Mödling

After returning to the company headquarters in Vienna in 1920, he successfully participated in the art exhibitions of 1920 and 1921. For the part of the Vienna International Fair , which was held in the court stables for the first time on September 11, 1921 , Peche created the exhibition stand of the Wiener Werkstätten. In 1922 he exhibited the wallpaper designs he had created at Flammersheim & Steinmann in Cologne at the Munich trade show .

As recently as 1922, Peche, who for years was unable to find a bright, dry apartment for himself and his family in Vienna, began to suffer. His condition quickly worsened, and he died on April 16, 1923 in Mödling, where friends had provided him (and his wife Petronella, 1884–1965, and two children) with a tolerable home, shortly after his 36th birthday. Dagobert Peche was buried for the last rest on April 20, 1923 in the Hietzingen cemetery (group 10, no. 81).

literature

Web links

Commons : Dagobert Peche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal Register - TFBVIII | St. Michael im Lungau | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ ZDB -ID 2575639-4 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Ankwicz-Kleehoven: Dagobert Peche † .
  4. ^ Eduard Leisching : Exhibition of the Austrian wallpaper, link rust and linoleum industry combined with an exhibition of wallpaper designs and historical wallpapers. Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, Vienna, May 20 to July 1913 . Holzhausen, Vienna 1913.
  5. ^ Friedrich Tilgner (preface): Fashion exhibition 1915/16 in the kk Austrian Museum for Art and Industry . December 1915 to February 1916 . Kk Austrian Museum, Vienna 1916. Tilgner was later head of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, Trade and Industry and from 1930 head of the Austria section in the MWT , which operated the connection to the Reich
  6. ^ Kunstschau 1920. Vienna, June to September. Catalog . Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, Vienna 1920.
  7. ↑ Robert Orley :  The Vienna International Fair in the fall of 1921. (...) Dagobert Peche, by Wiener workshops in the stables. In:  The architect , born in 1921, S. 56, caption. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / arc.
personal data
SURNAME Bad luck, Dagobert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Sankt Michael im Lungau
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1923
Place of death Mödling