Table Cover

Textiles

1901/25

Probably designed at the Künstler-Kolonie (Darmstadt, 1899-1914)
West Germany, Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe

Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, established an artists’ colony in Darmstadt in 1899. It was heavily influenced by the British Arts and Crafts and European Art Nouveau movements. Architect and designer Joseph Maria Olbrich created individual artists’ homes, as well as furnishings, for the colony. He may have designed this table cover, as its intricate abstract pattern is typical of his work.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Artist: Darmstadt Künstler-Kolonie (Producer)
Title: Table Cover
Place: Darmstadt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1901–1925
Medium: Cotton, 3:1 broken twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts
Dimensions: 126.4 × 115.6 cm (49 3/4 × 45 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Ada Turnbull Hertle Endowment
Reference Number: 1988.111

The Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Austrian and German Textiles: 1900–1930 from the Permanent Collection,
June 5–September 6, 1993.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 246, December 3, 2018-July 10, 2019.

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