Keywords: Vienna Secession, Art Nouveau, Jugendstil Movement, Early Modernist Era, Austrian Art Nouveau, Turn-of-the-Century Design, 20th Century, stylized motif, Secessionist aesthetic, period cabinetmaking
Summary:
Museum Quality Maker Bio: Ludwig Schmidt was a Viennese furniture maker who worked with both Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser under design contracts. He also collaborated with Joseph Maria Olbrich on interiors and furnishings for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. It is likely that he produced that furniture based on Moser’s designs.LUDWIG SCHMIDT Display Cabinet design by Koloman Moser, Vienna, Austria, circa 1915. Constructed of walnut and rosewood with silvered-brass inlays, silvered-brass pulls, lock plate, and column and plinth bases. Features glass and mirrored glass elements with upholstered interior sections. Unmarked.
Upper shelf with mirrored back; two glazed doors opening to an interior with two adjustable shelves; two lower drawers.

Maker Bio: Ludwig Schmidt was a multi-generational producer of high-quality, usually custom furniture. At the turn of the century the firm worked with many well-known architects and furniture designers including Olbrich at the 1900 Paris World Exposition. After Ludwig the Elder's death in 1906, his widow and son, Ludwig the Younger, successfully continued the company, working with important designers including Hans Prutscher. The company was dissolved with the coming of WWII.

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