Dagobert Peche Explained

Dagobert Peche
Birth Date:3 April 1887
Birth Place:Sankt Michael im Lungau, Austria
Death Place:Modling, Austria
Style:Spiky Baroque
Movement:Wiener Werkstätte

Dagobert Peche (3 April 1887, Sankt Michael/Lungau, Land Salzburg – 16 April 1923, Modling) was an Austrian artist and metalworker designer.[1]

Career

He joined the Wiener Werkstätte in 1915 and exhibited at Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne[2] and then became a co-director thereof in 1916.[3] Whilst there in the early 1920s he introduced a 'spiky baroque' style[4] inspired by folk-art, and using flowers, animals and human figures as decorative motifs.[2]

References

  1. http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18044265/ Dagobert Peche | People | Collection of Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  2. Book: Anscombe, Isabelle. Arts and Crafts Style. 1999. 1991. London. Phaidon Press. 0-714-83469-6.
  3. Book: Art Nouveau. Hoo. Grange Books. 978-1-84013-790-3.
  4. Book: Hapgood . Marilyn Oliver . Wallpaper and the Artist : From Dürer to Warhol . 1992 . Abbeville Press . New York . 9780896599338 . 126.

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