Villa project, outside Vienna, Austria (Exterior perspective)
Emil Hoppe
Austrian, 1876–1957
1903
An exterior perspective rendered in graphite, colored pencil, ink, and gouache proposing a villa near Vienna, meant to convey the building’s steep gabled profile, decorative facade, and its siting within a landscaped garden.
A dramatic diagonal roofline cuts the composition, its blue timber patterning and chimney dominating while airy pencil construction lines, stippled decorative motifs, and teal washes evoke trees and a partially sketched, in-progress landscape.
The drawing illustrates the turn-of-the-century Viennese approach that fused precise architectural projection with expressive ornament—part of the visual language that bridged historicist detail and the emerging modernism of the Secession era.
Medium
Graphite, color pencil, ink, and gouache on tracing paper
Dimensions
15 1/8 x 7 1/2" (38.4 x 19.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Accession
2.1997
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