Vienna: Franciscan Church (Wien: Die Franziskanerkirche)
Medium
Color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
WW.138
Tags
About this artwork
This color lithograph represents Postcard No. 138 from the Wiener Werkstätte, the influential Austrian arts and crafts collective that revolutionized Viennese Modernist design in the early 20th century. Urban Janke (1887-1914), an Austrian artist from Blottendorf, created this charming view of Vienna's Franciscan Church as part of a systematic documentation of the city's architectural landmarks in 1908. The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), founded in 1903, sought to reunify the applied and f...
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of early 20th-century Vienna *Vienna: Franciscan Church (ien: Die Franziskerkirche)*, a charming color lithograph by Urban Janke (1887–1914), produced in 1908 as Postcard No. 138 by the Wiener Werkstätte. This print (5 1/2 × 3 9/16 in.) captures the Gothic splendor of Vienna's Franciscan Church, one of the city's cherished architectural landmarks, at a time when the Austrian capital buzzed with modernist fervor. Janke, an artist from Blottendorf, contributed to the Wiener Werkstätte's ambitious project to document Vienna's imperial heritage through a series of post...
About the Artist
Urban Janke|Wiener Werkstätte (Austrian| ) · 1887 | –1914 |
Austrian, Blottendorf/Vienna, 1887–1914|