#Josef Divéky

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Josef Divéky - ‘Die Brücke’ (The Bridge), “Die Kunst für alle”, 1916-17.

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Cover of program of Cabaret Fledermaus by Carl Otto Czeschka, 1907.

Illustration for the first program of Cabaret Fledermaus by Bertold Löffler and Carl Otto Czeschka, 1907.

Illustration for the second program of Cabaret Fledermaus by Moriz Jung, 1907.

Cover of the second program of Cabaret Fledermaus by August Chwala, 1907.

Draft of a poster for Cabaret Fledermaus by József Divéky, 1907.

Folding fan for Cabaret Fledermaus by Bertold Löffler.

In October of 1907, on the corner of Kärntner Straße 33 and Johannesgasse 1 in Vienna, a new kind of club emerged in a converted basement of a residential building. Cabaret Fledermaus was conceived as a place where the ‘boredom’ of contemporary life would be replaced by ‘ease, art and culture’. It was created by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), a group of artists and designers founded by architect Josef Hoffmann, artist Koloman Moser and businessman Fritz Waerndorfer. Their aim was to stimulate the senses through a synthesis of modern architecture, painting, poetry, music and dance creating a space where ‘none of the arts were excluded’ and craftsmanship was championed. [...] Live performance was at the cabaret’s heart: it hosted short satirical plays, evocative shadow theatre, avant-garde dance, poetry readings and musical performances ranging in tone from humour to decadence. In particular, the stage offered a platform for epoch-defining female performers such as Grete Wiesenthal and Marya Delvard, supported by extravagant sets and elaborate costume designs. [...] Cabaret Fledermaus closed its doors in 1913 due to financial difficulties and there are only a few records that remain of what this dazzling club space would have looked like. There are three surviving photographs, postcards by the Wiener Werkstätte, and floorplan and elevation sketches by Le Corbusier from 1907, when he was in close contact with Hoffmann while staying in Vienna. source

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Josef Divéky (1887-1951), 'Faust', ''Neue Deutsche Buchillustration'' by Rudolf Bleistein, 1915 Source

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Josef von Divéky

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Heinrich Heine. "Der Doktor Faust. Ein Tanzpoem nebst kuriosen Berichten über Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst" (with colored illustrations by Josef Divéky) Berlin, 1912.

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Ostern Pappschachtel von K&K Hofzuckerbäckerei Christoph Demel’s Söhne, Wiener Werkstätte, Entwurf von Josef Divéky.

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Josef Divéky, Krampuskarte, Wiener Werkstätte 1909

MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst

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Josef Divéky - ‘Totentanz - Finale’, “Die Kunst für alle”, 1916-17.

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Josef Divéky (1887-1951), 'Turandot', ''Die Kunst für alle'', 1916-17 Source

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Josef Divéky 1910

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Josef Divéky - ‘Totentanz - Das Schiff’, “Die Kunst für alle”, 1916-17.

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Josef Divéky - ‘Charon’, “Die Kunst für alle”, 1916-17.

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Josef Divéky (1887-1951), 'Charon', ''Die Kunst für alle'', 1916-17 Source

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Josef Divéky (1887-1951), 'Der Schatten der Colombine' (The Shadow of the Colombine), ''Nebelspalter'', Vol. 49, 1923 Source