10th anniversary of death - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1966 - 3 Shilling

As Professor h.c. Josef Hoffmann died at the age of eighteen years ago, on May 7, 1956, at the age of 86, for many a very important chapter in the history of art and cultural history, not only in Austria, seemed to have been definitively closed. The name and the work of the renowned and much honored architect and designer has been given its place early: initiator and finisher of Art Nouveau. Marked by his teacher Otto Wagner and a one-year stay in Italy, he finds in the Secession founded in 1897 the possibility of realizing his ideas of the interaction of architecture and the other arts into a Gesamtkunstwerk. As director of the "Wiener Werkstätten" he set up a studio for the complete furnishing of entire houses. They also furnished his most important architectural work, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. In the field of exhibition buildings, his Austrian pavilion, erected for the Venice Biennale in 1934, is still trend-setting today. Hoffmann created the "Viennese style" with his unrelenting formal language, which he developed from the simplest geometrical basic figures. It became the basis for the development of modern architecture and modern handicraft not only in Austria. The brand image shows a portrait of the architect Josef Hoffmann on a dark background.