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Josef Hoffmann
[Austrian Art Deco Architect and Designer, 1870-1956]
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Josef Hoffmann Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Tea service, ca.1910
Moravian Gallery Brno, Czech Republic
Josef Hoffmann House
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Rotating Bookcase for an Office
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Vitrine (Model no. 600/9), ca.1905-08
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Tray, ca.1923 (Zoom)
Brohan Museum, Berlin, Germany (mostly in German) 
Sitzmaschine
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Leopold Museum, Vienna
Box with Lid, ca.1910
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
7 objects designed by Hoffmann
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Sitzmaschine Reclining Armchair, ca.1908
Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York City
A total of 34 works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Tea Service, 1923
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Nouveau World Wide Server
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Josef Hoffmann 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
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