Brooch with birds and flowers, design attributed to Karl Hagenauer, Werkstätte Hagenauer, around 1920

Brooch with birds and flowers
Design Karl Hagenauer, attributed to
Werkstätte Hagenauer
Circa 1920
Alpaca, galvanoplastic manufacturing process
Diameter 4.5 cm

This brooch is one of the first designs that Karl Hagenauer had made in the family workshop. The fine floral elements are very similar to the designs of Dagobert Peche from this period. Such early pieces are extremely rare on the open market.

Literature:
Design drawing, Olga Kronsteiner in Monika Wenzl-Bachmeier (ed.), "Hagenauer - Wiener Moderne und Neue Sachlichkeit", exhibition catalogue, Vienna 2011, p. 22.