Jutta Sika was among the most talented students of Koloman Moser at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts. She was a member of the Wiener Werkst\u00e4tte and a founding member of the Austrian Werkbund. She became particularly known for her designs for glass and ceramics.
\nOur vase is a design by Jutta Sika, documented by the paper pattern catalog of the Loetz archive. The same design was also exhibited in a tea room of the Vienna Secession, part of the \u201cIndustrial, Commercial and Art Exhibition\u201d at the Kunstpalast in D\u00fcsseldorf in 1902. The room was under the artistic direction of Josef Hoffmann and Leopold Bauer. There, the vase, with Moser\u2019s \u201cStripes and Spots\u201d decor, was prominently displayed on the center table, as shown in historical photographs of the exhibition published in the contemporary journal Innendekoration.
\nOur vase bears the decor \u201cPhenomen Genre 358,\u201d which is of no less distinction, since it was specially designed by Franz Hofst\u00f6tter for the 1900 Paris World\u2019s Fair, in which Jutta Sika also participated. Its iridescent surface, with horizontal bands of color progressing from a dark ground through bluish and yellow tones to glowing red, reinforces the impression of a distant horizon beneath a red-lit sky.
\nToday, Jutta Sika\u2019s designs are held in numerous museums, including the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vase, design by Jutta Sika, decor design by Franz Hofst\u00f6tter, execution by Johann Loetz Witwe for E. Bakalowits S\u00f6hne, Wien, decor Phenomen Genre 358, 1901<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39597,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[414],"product_tag":[1684],"class_list":["post-39607","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-johann-loetz-witwe-klostermuehle-en","product_tag-johann-loetz-witwe-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n