Felix Albrecht Harta (Austrian, 1884-1967)
Portrait of Secessionist architect and designer Josef Hoffmann
before 1956
pencil on paper (Vellum)
21 x 17 cm
signed upper right: HARTA
inscribed lower right: PROF. HOFMANN [sic]
verso: a head study in blue pencil
The Daulton Collection
Provenance: private collection, Vienna
In view of the misspelling of the name in the inscription, with one "f" instead of two ("ff'), there is a slight possibility that this is a portrait of the symbolist painter Prof. Ludwig von Hofmann, not Prof. Josef Hoffmann.
