Viennese Café: On the Terrace (Wiener Café: Auf der Terasse)
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.534
Tags
Art Historical Context
Moriz Jung’s *Viennese Café: On the Terrace* (1911) offers a lively glimpse into the social heart of early twentieth-century Vienna. Created as a color lithograph for the Wiener Werkstätte, the influential design collective founded in 1903, the small print captures men gathered at a café table, their relaxed postures and raised glasses evoking the city’s famed coffeehouse culture. These establishments were more than places to drink—they served as intellectual salons where artists, writers, and thinkers debated new ideas. The Wiener Werkstätte championed a modern aesthetic that blended fine cr...
About the Artist
Moriz Jung|Wiener Werkstätte · 1885–1915
Austrian (born Czechoslovakia) Moravia 1885–1915 Manilowa (Carpathians)|