Wiener Werkstaette of America Canvas Print

For the true art history lover.
Our hand-drawn remake of a detail of a 1920 enamel sign by an unknown artist for the Wiener Werkstaette of America.
Established in 1903, the Wiener Werkst�tte (engl.: Vienna�s Workshops) was a production community of visual artists in Vienna, Austria bringing together architects, artists and designers.
It soon expanded to fill a three-story building with separate, specially designed facilities for metalwork, leatherwork, bookbinding, woodworking and a paint shop. The range of product lines also included; leather goods, enamel, jewellery, postcards and ceramics.
Many great artists worked for/in the workshops: Egon Schiele, Kokoschka, Koloman Moser et al.

Hello, my first name is Heidi. My family name is De Leeuw, which is Dutch for The Lion. I was born in the mid 1960s. From the early 1980s on I worked in sales and administration. From the moment my husband started 'AAP Art and Photography' as an ecommerce company back in 2000, I developed a growing interest in what he was doing, and specifically in digital restoration of photos, postcards and posters. Sometimes people ask me why I spend so much time in taking a worn and torn image and restoring it to its original beauty, I answer them with another question: why are old paintings and classic cars being restored? Because, make no mistake, restoration is an art and a craft. No fancy magic software, but pixel by pixel cleaning and...