Tracing Wiener Werkstätte Textiles

Wiener Werkstätte: Textiles and their design

This book presents new research and archival findings on the textile and fashion designs of the Wiener Werkstätte movement (1903–1932). Textile specialists, art and design historians offer insights into the most important collections and archives in Austria, Switzerland, and the US.

The publication explores works by lesser-known female textile artists; the influence of Eastern European folk art, Japanese patterns, and ornamentation textbooks on textile designs; applications in fashion, interior design, film, theater; and marketing strategies used to enter new markets in the US.

It includes numerous illustrations of textile samples, many drawn from the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection (George Washington University Museum / Textile Museum), one of the largest collections of Wiener Werkstätte fabrics in the US.

• New research and archival findings on the Wiener Werkstätte textile design
• International project by the University of Neuchâtel, the George Washington University Museum / Textile Museum (exhibition from July 8 to November 5, 2023), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna
• Contributions by Susan Brown / Caitlin Condell, Rebecca Houze, Janis Staggs, and others

Régine Bonnefoit, doctorate in art history (University of Heidelberg, 1995) and habilitation (University of Passau, 2006); research assistant at the Département des Arts graphiques des Musée du Louvre (1992–1994); research grant at the Institute of Art History in Florence (1995–1998). Trainee at Berlin Museums (2000–2001). University assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Lausanne (2001–2006). After a professorship at the Swiss National Science Foundation, she was appointed full professor of contemporary art history and museology at the University of Neuchâtel. Curator and co-curator of numerous exhibitions. Research areas: Austrian and German Expressionism (Kokoschka, Kirchner, Klee); Wiener Werkstätte; Bauhaus; the Russian avant-garde.

Marie-Eve Celio-Scheurer holds a doctorate summa cum laude in history of art from La Sorbonne. She was grant recipient from the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and a research fellow at the German Center for Art History Paris. She lived in India, where she was a consultant for UNESCO. She worked as a scientific collaborator and co-curator at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich and held the position of guest professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland. From 2019 to 2022, she led the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Since December 2022, she has been heading the collection of prints and drawings at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. Her research areas are in Art Nouveau, Wiener Werkstätte, indiennes and prints, and cultural exchanges.