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Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods.
Hoffmann studied at the Higher State Crafts School, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He became a co-founder on the Vienna Secession in 1897, and the Wiener Werkstaette in 1903. His geometrical style was influenced by the ideas of his mentor Otto Wagner, as well as the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Hoffmann's first furniture designs were simple pieces with lattice decorations for Joseph Maria Olbrich's Secession Building of 1898. By 1900, In the furniture shown at the Paris exhibition, he had abandoned curvilinear decoration in favour of the angular forms, geometrical decoration and smooth surfaces, which were to become the major characteristics of the mature Secession style.
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