Brooch
Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2005
Catalogue
- Year
- 1897
- Medium
- Silver colored metal
- Dimensions
- 7/8 × 1 1/4 × 1/4 in., 0.1 lb. (2.2 × 3.1 × 0.6 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Joseph Maria Olbrich
Artist

Printmaking
Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and designer central to the Vienna Secession movement. Working in residential architecture, interior design, and decorative arts, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of geometric ornamentation and organic forms that rejected historical revivalism in favor of modern materials and functional clarity. His landmark Secession Building, completed in 1897, became the movement's emblematic structure. Olbrich's work across architecture, furniture, and graphic design established principles that would influence early twentieth-century modernism across Europe.
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Candlestick, Model no. 1819
1902 · Pewter
Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)
1901 · Silk and cotton, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave; watered (moiré); appliquée with silk and cotton, warp-faced weft-ribbed plain weave and warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered with silk and cotton, in chain and overcast stitches
Poster for appliance manufacturer Oscar Winter's "Patent-Germane" stoves
1901 · Lithograph
Candlestick
1901 · Pewter
Napkin
1899 · Cotton, plain weave; screen printed
Poster for the Second Secession Exhibition
1898 · Lithograph
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Joseph Maria Olbrich
- Year
- 1897
- Medium
- Silver colored metal
- Dimensions
- 7/8 × 1 1/4 × 1/4 in., 0.1 lb. (2.2 × 3.1 × 0.6 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1897-011020
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





