Plate
1931 · Clear glass with handcut underside
1/2 x 7" (1.3 x 17.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Adolph Loos
Artist
Art Nouveau
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
6
Works in Collection
13
Assets Indexed
0
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Publications Referenced
70%
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Movements
- • Art Nouveau
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Glass from the Museum of Modern Art Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955–1956
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Lobmeyr Glass
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
About
Why this artist matters now
Adolph Loos was an Austrian architect and theorist who championed radical simplicity and the elimination of ornament in design. Working in Vienna during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he developed a polemical philosophy opposing the decorative excess of Art Nouveau, arguing that ornament represented a form of cultural regression. His built work includes the Steiner House in Vienna and the American Bar, both exemplifying his principle that form should emerge solely from function and material necessity. Loos's writings and designs profoundly influenced modernist architecture and design theory.
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