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Wenzel Hablik, artist

1881–1934

untitled, 1909

Portfolio/Series title: Schaffende Kräfte (Creative Forces)

Where object was made: (present-day Czech Republic)

Material/technique: etching

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 195 x 194 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 7 11/16 x 7 5/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 401 x 301 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 15 13/16 x 11 7/8 in
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 199 x 199 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 7 13/16 x 7 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: Anonymous gift

Accession number: 2010.0005

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Exhibition Label:
“Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts,” Mar-2010, Steve Goddard
Wenzel Hablik studied applied art in Vienna and Prague, becoming a master cabinetmaker. Hablik’s pre-war architectural fantasies, such as this utopian image of floating cities, express a yearning for a better world, a theme vigorously taken up again in the years following the War.

Starting in 1915, Hablik served his military duty as a war artist in the Carpathian Mountains until he was wounded in the right arm in 1916. After the War he was briefly involved with a group of progressive architects and artists that called themselves the Gläserne Kette (Crystal Chain). In 1927 he and his wife, Lisbeth Lindemann, set up a weaving workshop in Itzehoe.

See also the post-war etching by Hablik, There People Lived in Crystal Trees, toward the end of this exhibition, and the current exhibition in the Spencer Museum, Utopia/Dystopia.