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Lotte Frommel-Fochler (1884 - 1972), A needlepoint tapestry,…
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Sydney
Date:
27-Nov-2013
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Lotte Frommel-Fochler (1884 - 1972), A needlepoint tapestry, circa 1920, embroidered in colours of red, blue, white, black and green with stylised birds, butterflies and foliate motifs, 148 cm wide, 114 cm high, Lotte Frommel-Fochler was an Austrian textile designer who produced a range of dynamic design work for the Wiener Werkstatte for some years before the outbreak of the First World War. She produced both fashion and interior fabrics and was one of the leading innovators in textile design during the first years of the twentieth century. She studied directly under Josef Hoffmann, the dynamo of the Wiener Werkstatte, until about 1908, and therefore in some respects at least, her work could be said to have been influenced by Hoffmann as designer and innovator. However, much of Frommel-Fochler's work is her own and is easily identifiable and individualistic enough within the Wiener Werkstatte framework to confidently say that she added to the Austrian experience in contemporary textile design during this period
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