  About the Artwork
  
  
  Hoffmann and Otto Wagner founded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. Following the principles of the Wiener Werkstätte, the objects designed by Hoffmann have simple functional forms like this complete silverplate flatware place setting. Also following the Wiener Werkstätte concept, he used geometric form as decoration.
  
  
  Title
  Flatware Set
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1906
  
  Artist
  Josef Hoffmann
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1870-1956
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Austrian
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Silverplate
  
  
  Dimensions
  various
  
  
  Classification
  Silver
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
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