JOSEPH HOFFMANN: INSPIRATIONS

until Friday December 31 2010
Josef Hoffmann Museum
náměstí Svobody 263
58832 Brtnice
Czech Republic

Head of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagelv
T : (+43-1) 711 36-250
kathrin.pokorny-nagel@mak.at
www.mak.at

In collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the MAK is developing a concept for a permanent exhibition on the life and work of Josef Hoffmann in Austria and the Czech Republic, to be shown in Hoffmann’s birthplace in Brtnice beginning in June 2009. The project encompasses the redesign of the six exhibition rooms in the house.

A propos du Joseph Hoffmann Museum

Joseph Hoffmann: Cabinet, 1899. Paper, pencil, ink, color pencil © MAK/Georg Mayer

In particular, light will be shed on the artistic influences, which Hoffmann, being one of the most important architects and designers of the twentieth century, received in his home town. The exhibition is made possible by funds from the EU Culture Programme 2007–2013 (project title: Architecture and Interior Design in Central Europe in the early twentieth century. Josef Hoffmann and Dušan Jurkovič).

Curator Martina Straková, Moravian Gallery in Brno