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14-508: WHW may refer to: Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien (wHw), a family business in Vienna While Heaven Wept (often abbreviated as WHW), a doom metal band Das Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes, commonly known as Winterhilfswerk or WHW , a Nazi social welfare effort Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

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42-496: The 1930s and more recently. Karl Hagenauer's work found an avid American market partly through the efforts of New York gallery owner Rena Rosenthal , who featured the Josephine Baker sculpture in a 1935 window display. He made two voyages to New York to visit her in the 1930s and stamped some of the merchandise retailed through her store with a custom "RENA" mark in addition to his trademark "wHw." Rosenthal's patronage

56-596: The Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien in 1898. He began as an apprentice at Würbel & Czokally, a silverware producer in Vienna. He then trained as a goldsmith before founding his own business, one of many in Vienna producing small figurines and useful objects. His workshop produced his own designs and those of other artists such as Josef Hoffmann and Otto Prutscher . His sons Karl (1898 - 1956) and Franz (1906 - 1986) both became renowned designers. Karl

70-723: The Werkstätte Hagenauer, where he was responsible for furniture and utensils. Richard Rohac (1906 - 1956) was a master metal craftsman and designer who apprenticed at the Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien from the age of fourteen. He remained with the company until 1932, when he opened his own workshop and gained master certification. Following the war, the Richard Rohac Company produced a wide range of decorative and practical objects in brass, which served both domestic and overseas markets. His work, along with that of his business partner enamel artist Elfi Müller,

84-907: The 💕 Look for Franz Hagenauer on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Franz Hagenauer in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

98-647: The iconic Josephine Baker in the collection of the Casa Lis Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum in Salamanca ) were purely decorative. He designed the company’s trademark encircled "wHw" and registered it in 1927. The first catalogue to use the trademark dates to 1928, the year his father died and Karl assumed leadership of the business. The company later expanded to produce furniture, chiefly designed by Julius Jirasek. Karl's designs were popular enough to be reproduced and marketed by counterfeiters in

112-503: The title WHW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHW&oldid=909059211 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Werkst%C3%A4tte Hagenauer Wien Carl Hagenauer (1872 - 1928) founded what became

126-470: The war. The 1950s saw a reintroduction to the more decorative products. While Karl was the principal designer of everyday objects (and some sculptures), his younger brother Franz specialized in sculpture. Franz Hagenauer also studied from an early age with Franz Cižek at Vienna's School of Applied Arts, and joined the family business at age twenty. His interest and talent lay in sculpture with sheet metals rather than cast figures, and later in his career he

140-630: Was an influential designer in the Art Deco style. He enrolled at the Vienna School of Applied Arts at age eleven. He studied with Josef Hoffmann and Oskar Strnad and created designs for the Wiener Werkstätte art collective. After wartime service in the infantry, he resumed his training and qualified as an architect. He joined the family business in 1919 and soon took on leadership in both design and management. Karl Hagenauer

154-504: Was critical to the post-war success of the Werkstätte Hagenauer; the hostilities caused a delay of several years in her payment for a last container of products shipped in 1938, and the subsequent change in exchange rate was very advantageous to the Austrian firm, supporting rebuilding efforts. The company turned to the production of metal objects and furniture needed for the restoration of houses and other structures damaged or destroyed in

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168-522: Was head of metalwork and metal design classes at the Academy of Applied Arts. Franz took over the running of the company after Karl died in 1956. Julius Jirasek (1896 - 1965) was an Austrian architect who trained under Oskar Strnad and Josef Frank at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. He also designed jewellery, ceramics and glassware. Jirasek spent the thirty years from 1930 to 1960 with

182-612: Was responsive to the change in public taste influenced by the popularity of the Vienna Secession . His stylized animals and whimsical creatures (reminiscent of Wiener Werkstätte designer Dagobert Peche ) handcrafted in brass had broad appeal in domestic and American markets. Some were useful, such as mirrors, cigar cutters , ashtrays, cigarette stubbers - many in the form of athletes or animals, candlesticks, corkscrews, bookends, and lamp bases. Figurines, hood ornaments and other larger sculptures in wood and metal (such as

196-515: Was the subject of an American newsreel item in the 1950s. Karl Schmidt (born 1948) is a sculptor, painter and industrial designer. In 1962, he began a four-year apprenticeship in brass work under his professor, Franz Hagenauer. He went on to manage the workshop and then the company on Franz's death, until 1987. He founded his own workshop in Vienna in 1987, and then Atelier Karl Schmidt in Neudorf in 2009. Franz Hagenauer From Misplaced Pages,

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