Dagobert Peche
Dagobert Peche ( born April 3, 1887 in Sankt Michael im Lungau, Salzburg, † April 16, 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian artist and was considered the most gifted fantasy representative of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Life
Dagobert Peche was born in Lungau, and spent his childhood in Oberndorf bei Salzburg. After attending secondary school in Salzburg he came to Vienna and studied from 1906 to 1910 at the Technical University of Karl King ( 1841-1915 ), Karl Mayr Eder ( 1856-1935 ), Leopold Simony ( 1859-1929 ) and Max von Ferstel ( 1859-1936) and from 1908 to 1911 at the Academy of Fine Arts at Friedrich Ohmann ( 1858-1927 ).
According to a study trip to England the influence of pure black and white technique of graphic artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) for its further development and critical in small and occasional graphics became visible. 1911 awarded the Gold Medal and three awards, he was able in 1912 to accommodate two months in Paris thanks to the Prix de Rome. The publisher Alexander Koch (1860-1939) in Darmstadt, the pitch unusual talent was recognized publications enabled him in the magazine Art and Decoration. Here pitches proved to be the ornamentalists who always took the proper form and the solidified crafts his time instilled new life. His creative imagination, the decorative shape on purpose contour set, busy all the arts and crafts subregions and found for each material and technology new possibilities of decorative design: in wallpaper and fabric printing industry, in lace and embroidery by appealing fabric patterns and colors. Also goldsmiths and ivory carving, mirror frames and furniture molds, ceramic and metal goods, paper industry and fashion (so-called ombre colors) were its language form beeinflusst.Ein example of this period is his closet for a reception room from pear wood for the 45th Secession exhibition of 1913, now in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
His original wallpaper designs on the wallpaper exhibition of kk Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in 1913 first drew public attention to him, his work at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914, made his name known in Germany.
But their full development came his talent until he was in 1915 by Josef Hoffmann ( 1870-1956 ) are used for artistic collaboration in the Wiener Werkstätte. Peche was known for his love of zweckbefreiteten mannered and playful objects, bred on luxury items as well as its incidence kapraziöse force that was his designs based.
1916, after the successful organization of the Vienna fashion exhibition 1915/16, he took over as head of the Zurich branch of the Wiener Werkstätte. There came with more rhythm and movement up a change of style, there was an enrichment of the flowers and leaves decoration, to a compound of body and plant ( Daphne motif), influenced by Rococo ( Peche - asterisk) and Chinese brush drawings.
1920 returned to the corporate headquarters to Vienna, he successfully participated in the art exhibitions of 1920 and 1921. For the first time from September 11, 1921, held at the stables part of Vienna International Fair Peche created the stand of the Wiener Werkstätte. In 1922, he presented at the Munich trade show of its incurred by Flammer Home & Steinmann in Cologne wallpaper designs.
Even in 1922 began Peche, which it has not been possible for years to find for himself and his family in Vienna a bright, dry flat to ail. His condition deteriorated rapidly and he died on 16 April 1923 in Mödling, where he ( and his wife Petronella, 1884-1965, and two children ) and friends had provided a tolerable home, shortly after his 36th birthday. Dagobert Peche was on 20 April 1923 on the Graveyard Hietzinger to rest buried (Group 10, No. 81).