until Sunday May 28 2017

Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : +43 (0)1 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A - 1010 Wien
Austria

Shortly after the founding of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903, the painter and graphic designer Koloman Moser (1868–1918) and the architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) also designed book covers for their customers. The artists’ endeavors were supported by Carl (Karl) Beitel (1866–1917), who was known in Vienna to be a superb bookbinder and who, as a master, oversaw the Wiener Werkstätte’s bookbinding atelier from May 1904.