The Daily Heller: Merrill C. Berman and Design's Holy Grail(s) – PRINT Magazine
Berman has collected, documented and loaned the rarest artifacts of mass graphic design, advertising and painting to museums, galleries and researchers.
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Berman has collected, documented and loaned the rarest artifacts of mass graphic design, advertising and painting to museums, galleries and researchers.
Menânamely Josef Hoffmann, Dagobert Peche, and Koloman Moserâruled at the Wiener Werkstätte, the powerfully influential but short-lived Viennese design firm in operation from 1903 to 1932. But scores of women were integral, too, though only scholars and dealers seem to know much about them today. âWe want to change that and draw attention to the talents that we could find through our research,â says Anne-Katrin Rossberg, curator of âWomen Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte,â now on view at Viennaâs Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). That means a sorority ...