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Title
- Cushion Embroidered with Flowers
Collection
Production
- design: Hermann Obrist
- execution: Bertha Ruchet, Munich, before 1898
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
- silk,
- metal thread,
- woven,
- embroidered,
- sewn,
Measurements
- height: 37.5 cm
- width: 61 cm
Inventory number
- T 4939
Acquisition
- purchase, 1898
Department
- Textiles and Carpets Collection
Inscriptions
- monogram: H O
Description
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Shortly after being finished, this embroidered pillow by Munich Secessionist Hermann Obrist arrived at the Museum of Art and Industry, today’s MAK. Obrist was far better known for his sculptures than for his textile designs. As one sees in this object, designed by him and meticulously realized by a professional embroiderer, Obrist’s study of botany had a deep influence on his work. The imaginatively intertwined plants, quite naturalistic in their depiction, arrange themselves
effortlessly within this masterful design’s rectangular frame, which they break through with their roots. The pillow itself stands for the unity of the arts and illustrates the development towards an idealized naturalism that overcomes the characteristic stylization of Historicism.
(Karl, Barbara)
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cushion, Cushion Embroidered with Flowers, Hermann Obrist, MAK Inv.nr. T 4939
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https://mak-wp.711.at/en/collect/cushion-embroidered-with-flowers_94222
Last update
- 06.12.2024
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