Rare Exlibris Bookplate WIENER WERKSTATTE founder ALFRED ROLLER 1899

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Rare Exlibris Bookplate WIENER WERKSTATTE founder ALFRED ROLLER 1899:
$155.42

Please enjoy a selection of fine bookplates all dating from the 1880 - 1925 period. All are 100% genuine ex libris from the period, as stated. I have a significant changing stock of items, many plates by artists not currently shown. Do feel free to contact with any questions or wishes you may have.

Artist: AlfredRoller (1864 Brünn, Mähren —1935, Vienna).

Signature / Monogram :Monogramed and dated in the plate lower edge.

Recipient: Fritz Oberdorfer (1878-1969), Austrianfolklorist.

Date: 1899

Sheet size: 94.5 mm x66.5 mm

Block size: 73.5 mm x 65.5 mm

Paper type: Lithographwith gold ink on laidpaper.

Condition:Very good frontwithglue traces to verso from book (see photo).

Comments:

Alfred Roller (1864 Brünn, Mähren —1935, Vienna). Austrian painter, graphic designer, and setdesigner. Roller at firststudied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels, but eventually became disenchanted with theAcademy\'s traditionalism. In 1897 he co-founded the Viennese Secession with Koloman Moser, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, GustavKlimt, and otherartists who rejected the prevalent academicstyle of art. He became aprofessor of drawing at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Kunstgewerbeschule) in 1899, and president of the Secession in1902.

In his early career Roller was veryactive as a graphic designer and draughtsman. He designed numerous covers and vignettes for the pages the Secessionist periodical Ver Sacrum, as well as the posters for the fourth, fourteenth, and sixteenthSecession exhibitions. He also designed the layout of the exhibitionsthemselves.

In 1902 Roller was introduced to thecomposer Gustav Mahler by CarlMoll. Rollerexpressed an interest in stage design and showed Mahler several sketches he hadmade for Wagner\'s Tristan und Isolde. Mahler was impressed and decided to employRoller to design the sets for a new production of the piece. The production,which premiered in February 1903, was a great critical success. Rollercontinued to design sets for Mahler\'s productions. Eventually Roller left theSecession and his teaching post at the Kunstgewerbeschule to be appointed chiefstage designer to the Vienna State Opera, a position he held until 1909.