View from Café Heinrichhof of the Imperial and Royal Court Opera Theater (Blick vom Cafe Heinrichhof auf das K.K. Hofoperntheater)
Medium
Color lithograph
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
WW.412
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the bustling café culture of imperial Vienna with Gustav Kalhammer's *View from Café Heinrichhof the Imperial and Royal Court Theater* (1911 a vibrant color lithograph by the innovative Wiener Werkstätte collective. From the cozy interior of Café Heinrichhof, the print gazes outward to the grand K.K. Hofoperntheater—today's Vienna State Opera—capturing elegant patrons, both men and women, amid the swirl of everyday elegance on the eve of World War I. Wiener cafés like Heinrichhof were vibrant social hubs in the Habsburg capital, where intellectuals, artists, and opera lovers gathere...
About the Artist
Gustav Kalhammer|Wiener Werkstätte · 1886–1919
Austrian, Vienna 1886–1919/20 (?) Vienna|