Cabaret Fledermaus (1907)
Cabaret Fledermaus, completed in 1907 was designed as a profitable undertaking
and not merely for the private enjoyment of the Wiener Werkstätte artists.
It was financed by way of advance payments from the Stoclet project. The striving
for a object of art was seen earliest and in its purest form here.
Interior decoration was carried out in all the rooms at the theatre. Cloakroom, walls and the bar were covered in a mosaic designed by Bertold Löffler and Michael Powolny made of 7,000 pieces of majolica - a ceramic orbis pictus comprising caricatures, portraits, allegories, mythical creatures and ornaments, which contemporary critics termed "humoristic jabbering".
The cabaret stage in the basement - close to the Loos Bar (1908) - on the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Johannesgasse existed until 1913.
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Reconstructed model
(Atelier
Hnizdo) of the entrance area of Cabaret Fledermaus
© Atelier Hnizdo
Interior view of the Cabaret by Josef Diveky for a
postcard
for the Wiener Werkstätte (No. 74).
© Markus weissenböck, 27th April 2002
Reconstructed model (Atelier
Hnizdo) of the kidney-shaped main auditorium with
boxes and galleries.
© Atelier Hnizdo
