Villa project, outside Vienna, Austria (Elevation)
Emil Hoppe
Austrian, 1876–1957
1903
An architectural presentation drawing by Emil Hoppe proposing a villa outside Vienna, meant to convey the building’s measured structure and decorative character through delicate graphite, ink, colored pencil, and gouache on tracing paper.
You’re struck by the meeting of precise drafting—crosshairs, measured lines and elevation notation—with a single, almost painterly blue-green tree and repeating ornamental swirls, so the sheet reads as both a technical plan and a small artwork.
Executed in 1903, the drawing exemplifies how Viennese architects of the period balanced ornament and structural clarity, helping to bridge historicist domestic design and the cleaner vocabulary that led into early modernism.
Medium
Graphite, pen, color pencil, ink, and gouache on tracing paper
Dimensions
13 1/2 x 12 1/2" (34.3 x 31.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Accession
1.1997
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