He also won the Rome Prize and, in the following year, traveled to Italy. In 1895, Hoffmann became a founding member of the Siebener Club (Club of Seven), a group made up of forward-looking artists and architects, including Koloman Moser and Joseph Maria Olbrich. Hoffmann would, like many of the best young talents from the Academy, later work in Wagner’s studio. Two years later, the architect Otto Wagner took over the program there, and he had a formative influence on Hoffmann’s work. (Interestingly, Adolf Loos, who would later become his architectural rival in Vienna, also attended the Staatsgewerbeschule in Brünn, as well as the same grammar school as Hoffmann.) In 1892, Hoffmann was accepted into the architecture program at the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Vienna. Hoffmann studied architecture at the Höhere Staatsgewerbeschule (Senior State Commercial and Technical School) in Brünn/Brno. His interest in architecture was sparked when he visited building sites with the son of a local architect whom he had befriended. He recalled that the Moravian folk art and Biedermeier designs that surrounded him during his childhood were significant influences on his later work. Hoffmann was born in a small town in Moravia. Joseph Hoffmann (1870 Pirnitz/Brtnice, Moravia – 1956 Vienna) was an architect and designer who played a central role in the most important artistic events to take place during the cultural flowering of turn-of-the-century Vienna.
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