Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill

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Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill (born April 2, 1882 in Vienna ; † December 25, 1961 there ) was an Austrian interior architect , designer , fashion designer and painter .

Life

Wimmer-Wisgrill was a private student of Koloman Moser , studied 1901–1907 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, among others with Josef Hoffmann and Alfred Roller, and in 1907 founded the fashion department of the Wiener Werkstätte , which he headed from 1910 to 1922. In 1908 he took part in the art show in Vienna. He dealt with questions of design and designed glasses, leather goods, fabrics and jewelry. He worked on furnishing the Austrian house at the Werkbund exhibition in Cologne in 1914 and created designs for the Wiener Werkstätte.

From 1918 to 1921 he headed the workshop for fashion and fashion drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, was a draftsman for fashion, textiles and theater in New York from 1922 to 1925 and from 1923 to 1925 head of the fashion class at the Art Institute of Chicago . In 1925 Wimmer-Wisgrill returned to the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien (from 1941 university, between 1948 and 1970 Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna, since 1998 University of Applied Arts ), where he headed the master class for fashion and the workshop for textile work until 1955 was active. In the meantime, Wimmer-Wisgrill created numerous interior furnishings. In 1930 he was represented at the large Austrian Werkbund exhibition in Vienna by the Austrian Werkbund .

His son, Ighino Wimmer (1919-2008), known as Gino Wimmer , was a well-known film critic and acted as a production assistant ( IMDb ) on a number of films .

Wimmer-Wisgrill made & a. Gertrud Kornhas-Brandt , who headed the German Master School for Fashion in Munich from 1930 to 1957 .

Filmography

literature

  • Arne Sildatke: Decorative Modernism. Art Déco in spatial art in the Weimar Republic , Münster: LIT 2013 ISBN 978-3-643-12293-3 , p. 491f.

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personal data
SURNAME Wimmer-Wisgrill, Eduard Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian interior designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1961
Place of death Vienna