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Purkersdorf Sanatorium : The garden front,
immediately after its completion in 1905. It has since
been radically changed, and another story has been
added
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Purkersdorf Sanatorium: plan of first floor
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Purkersdorf Sanatorium: main dining hall on first floor
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Purkersdorf Sanatorium : writing room on first floor

difficulty that Hoffmann's interiors are mann, in his later architectural work, moved 24
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ruined by even the slightest alteration. more and more in the direction of neoclassi- Palais Stoclet, Brussels: elevations of façade, 1905
Waerndorfer, after all his money had been cism. This tendency is already evident in the 25
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swallowed up by the Wiener Werkstätte, left Haus Primavesi (1913) ; and even more so in Palais Stoclet, Brussels: plans, 1905
for America in 1913. Other financial patrons the Austrian pavilion at the Werkbund exhi- 26
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were found; new artists, such as Dagobert bition in Cologne in 1914. An example from Palais Stoclet, Brussels: garden front, 1905-11
Peche, were recruited. But from that point the 1920s, Haus Berl, at Freudenthal (Brun- 27
Joseph Hoffmann and members of the Wiener
onwards, as a result of organizational changes tal), reveals that Hoffmann was past his best, Werkstätte, Palais Stoclet, Brussels: dining room frieze
and of an excessive concentration on pure and that he would never match the great designed by Gustav Klimt, 1905-11
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decoration, the Werkstatte lost touch with the achievements of the years around 1905. q Joseph Hoffmann
great achievements of its first ten years. Hoff- Haus Primavesi, Vienna, 1913