Wiener Werkstätte (Designers)

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Distel
ca. 1910
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Kolomon Moser for Wiener Werkstätte
Baummarder
ca. 1910-11
block-printed silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte
Adler
ca. 1910-12
block-printed silk
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anny Schröder for Wiener Werkstätte
Doily with Bird
1922
linen (bobbin lace)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anny Schröder for Wiener Werkstätte
Doily with Tree
1922
linen (bobbin lace)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Valerie Wieselthier for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1920
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Hilda Jeser for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1921
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
ca. 1917
painted zinc with glass liner
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Vase
1923
silver
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dina Kuhn for Wiener Werkstätte
Allegorical Head: Das Wasser
1929
glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mathilde Flögl for Wiener Werkstätte
Drawstring Bag
ca. 1925
beaded kidskin with silk cord
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Archibald
ca. 1913-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Felice Rix-Ueno for Wiener Werkstätte
Archibald
ca. 1913-17
gouache on paper (design for textile)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Viola
1922
machine-printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Das Wasser
1922
machine-printed wallpaper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

As I gird on for fighting

    My sword upon my thigh,

I think on old ill fortunes

    Of better men than I.

Think I, the round world over,

    What golden lads are low

With hurts not mine to mourn for

    And shames I shall not know.

What evil luck soever

    For me remains in store,

'Tis sure much finer fellows

    Have fared much worse before. 

So here are things to think on

    That ought to make me brave,

As I strap on for fighting

    My sword that will not save.

– A.E. Housman (1922)

Built

Roelant Savery
Tower of Babel
1602
oil on copper
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Thomas Ruff
jpeg ny02
2004
C-print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nicholas Nixon
View east from Pi Alley, Boston
2008
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anastasia Samoylova
Upside-Down House, Orlando
2020
inkjet print
private collection

Georgia O'Keeffe
Wall with Green Door
1953
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Aldobrando Piacenza
St Peter's
before 1976
oil on panel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Larry Schwarm
Elevator - Barber County, Kansas
1974
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Willem Schellinks
Stonehenge
1662
drawing
British Museum

John Singer Sargent
Villa Borghese - Temple of Diana
ca. 1906-1907
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Isidore Pils
Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana in the Roman Forum
1840
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Joe Rock
The James McLurg monument (1717)
Greyfriars' Churchyard, Edinburgh
1990
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Thomas Sandby
Whitehall Palace
(Holbein Gate at center, Banqueting House at right)
ca. 1750
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Hubert Robert
Roman Capriccio with the Pantheon and an Embarcadero
ca. 1758-60
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome
ca. 1773-78
etching
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

John Ruskin
The Baptistry, Florence
1872
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alexander Runciman
Tower on the Leonine Wall in the Vatican Gardens
ca. 1767-71
ink, chalk, watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Jean-Baptiste Roman
La Chasse et la Pêche
1826
stone relief on window surround
Musée du Louvre

The Shrouding of the Duchess of Malfi

Hark! now everything is still, 

The screech-owl and the whistler shrill,

Call upon our dame aloud,

And bid her quickly don her shroud!

Much you had of land and rent;

Your length in clay's now competent:

A long war disturbed your mind;

Here your perfect peace is signed.

Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?

Sin their conception, their birth weeping,

Their life a general mist of error,

Their death a hideous storm of terror. 

Strew your hair with powders sweet,

Don clean linen, bathe your feet,

And – the foul fiend more to check –

A crucifix let bless your neck:

'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day,

End your groan and come away.

– John Webster, from The Duchess of Malfi (ca. 1613)

Dire - II

Anonymous German Printmaker
Demon tormenting Praying Monks with Flames
ca. 1475
hand-colored woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Israel van Meckenem
Man of Sorrows in the Tomb
ca. 1480
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur
Ascalaphus spying Proserpina eating Pomegranate Seeds in Hades
1670
etching
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Johann August Nahl the Younger
Orpheus and Eurydice
1807
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Evariste Vital Luminais
Psyche among the Shades
1886
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

Alessandro Sanguinio
Catafalque of Franz I in Milan Cathedral
1835
hand-colored lithograph
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Claude Mellan
Adam and Eve at the Foot of the Cross
ca. 1647
engraving
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Salvator Rosa
Christ driving Demons from Possessed Man
ca. 1662
drawing
(study for painting)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Albrecht Altdorfer
Christ in Limbo
ca. 1513-14
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Albrecht Dürer
The Rider Death and the Devil
1513
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Couple scrutinized by Hostile Crowd
1924
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Lorenzo Lotto
Portrait of Friar Angelo Ferretti as St Peter Martyr
1549
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Félix Bracquemond
Le Corbeau
ca. 1870
etching
(published in the Parisian weekly, L'Artiste)
Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques
des Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ragnar Ljungman
King Herod
1904
drawing
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden

Johann Moritz Rugendas
View into a Glowing Crater
ca. 1831-34
oil on board
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Gene Owens
Cinder Sun
1964
bronze
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Just now, as I was passing the place where they make garlands, I saw a boy interweaving flowers with a bunch of berries.  Nor did I pass by unwounded, but standing by him I said quietly, "For how much will you sell me your garland?"  He grew redder than his roses, and turning down his head said, "Go right away in case my father sees you."  I bought some wreaths as a pretence, and when I reached home crowned the gods, beseeching them to grant me him. 

Seek not to hide our love, Philocrates; the god himself without that hath sufficient power to trample on my heart.  But give me a taste of a blithe kiss.  The time shall come when thou shalt beg such favour from others. 

Unhappy they whose life is loveless; for without love it is not easy to do aught or to say aught.  I, for example, am now all too slow, but were I to catch sight of Xenophilus I would fly swifter than lightning.  Therefore I bid all men not to shun but to pursue sweet desire; Love is the whetstone of the soul.

I am not yet two and twenty, and life is a burden to me.  Ye Loves, why thus maltreat me; why set me afire?  For if I perish, what will you do?  Clearly, Loves, you will play, silly children, at your knuckle-bones as before. 

I am down; set thy foot on my neck, fierce demon.  I know thee, yea by the gods, yea heavy art thou to bear: I know, too, thy fiery arrows.  But if thou set thy torch to my heart, thou shalt no longer burn it; already it is all ash. 
 
Child of Leto, son of Zeus the great, who utterest oracles to all men, thou art lord of the sea-girt height of Delos; but the lord of the land of Cecrops is Echedemus, a second Attic Phoebus whom soft-haired Love lit with lovely bloom.  And his city Athens, once mistress of the sea and land, now has made all Greece her slave by beauty.

– from Book XII (Strato's Musa Puerilis) in the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)