Koloman Moser, an influential Austrian artist, revolutionised early twentieth-century design and painting. Renowned for his innovative use of geometric patterns and vibrant colours, Moser’s work embodies the spirit of the Vienna Secession, blending fine art with applied decorative arts.
Koloman Moser, an influential Austrian artist, revolutionised early twentieth-century design and painting. Renowned for his innovative use of geometric patterns and vibrant colours, Moser’s work embodies the spirit of the Vienna Secession, blending fine art with applied decorative arts.
This download features 55 hi-res images in JPEG format by the artist Koloman Moser.
The images are all 600dpi and range in size from 3006 to 6510 pixels wide/tall, with one smaller image that is 5454 x 1878. The set includes many of his Secession designs as well as some of his paintings.
Click on the link above to see a full list of the images.
The pictures are out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use them in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.
Koloman Moser (1868-1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.
Moser designed a wide array of artworks, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes, fashion, stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewellery and furniture.
Moser was born in Vienna in 1868 to parents Josef and Thresia Moser (née Hirsch). He was the oldest of three siblings and studied at the Wiener Akademie and the Kunstgewerbeschule, where he also taught from 1899.
Moser's designs in architecture, furniture, jewellery, graphics, and tapestries helped characterise the work of this era. He drew upon the clean lines and repetitive motifs of classical Greek and Roman art and architecture in reaction to the Baroque decadence of his turn-of-the-century Viennese surroundings. Between 1900 and 1902, he published with Martin Gerlach and Carl Otto Czeschka a three-volume portfolio titled Die Quelle ("The Source") of elegant graphic designs for such things as tapestries, fabrics, and wallpaper. Read more.
