Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill

[2] He turned his hand to design in fashion, jewelry, and metalwork, training under Josef Hoffmann, who later invited him to join the workshops.

After leaving Vienna in 1922, he spent time in Paris before traveling to the United States, where he visited Joseph Urban at the New York branch of the Wiener Werkstätte.

In New York, he worked as a fashion, costume, and textile designer for nearly a year before briefly teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923.

[citation needed] In 1910, the Wiener Werkstätte applied for a dressmaking license and that summer began selling women's fashion in the spa resort of Karlsbad (today, Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic).

[4] It was rumored that the creation of the Wiener Werkstatte’s fashion department was a result of Wimmer’s visit to the Stoclet Palace in Brussels, which had been entirely designed by Hoffman.

[4] He was apparently surprised by Madame Stoclet’s French-designed garments, the only items not signed by Hoffman, which he felt broke the harmony of the home’s design.

[4] After Stoclet Palace, the furnishings of the artcollectors August and Serena Lederer had been entrusted to Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill und produced by the Wiener Werkstätte.

[2] However, the dresses often remained at the project stage, and the commercial results were mediocre due to their focus on conceiving sketches of clothing that were too complex to actually produce rather than realistic and wearable fashion designs.