Armchair

Joseph Maria Olbrich

1898 · Wood · Modern and Contemporary Art

Olbrich was one of the most influential architects of the maverick Secession movement in Vienna, which rejected historicism. His best-known building is the exhibition hall he built for the Secession on the Ringstrasse, which carried above its portal the slogan "To every age its art; to art its freedom." He designed this chair for a suburban home outside Vienna.

Artist

Joseph Maria Olbrich

Date

1898

Medium

Wood

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of Twentieth Century Decorative Arts Gifts, 1982