Dagobert Peche
Appearance
Dagobert Peche | |
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![]() Dagobert Peche c. 1920 | |
Born | Sankt Michael im Lungau, Austria | 3 April 1887
Died | 16 April 1923 Modling, Austria | (aged 36)
Style | Spiky Baroque |
Movement | Wiener Werkstätte |
Dagobert Peche (3 April 1887, Sankt Michael/Lungau, Land Salzburg – 16 April 1923, Modling) was an Austrian artist and metalworker designer.[1]
Career
[edit]He joined the Wiener Werkstätte in 1915 and exhibited at Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne[2] and then became a co-director thereof in 1916.[3] Whilst there in the early 1920s he introduced a 'spiky baroque' style[4] inspired by folk-art, and using flowers, animals and human figures as decorative motifs.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Dagobert Peche | People | Collection of Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- ^ a b Anscombe, Isabelle (1999) [1991]. Arts and Crafts Style. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-714-83469-6.[page needed]
- ^ Art Nouveau. Hoo: Grange Books. ISBN 978-1-84013-790-3.
- ^ Hapgood, Marilyn Oliver (1992). Wallpaper and the Artist : From Dürer to Warhol. New York: Abbeville Press. p. 126. ISBN 9780896599338.
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