Postcard from the Wiener Werkstätte

This color lithograph postcard was designed by Franz Kuhn (1889–1952) and published by the Wiener Werkstätte in 1911 as part of the workshop's celebrated postcard series. It depicts Berlin's Friedrichsbrücke (Frederick Bridge) and the Berlin Cathedral (Dom), rendered in the stylized, flat-color aesthetic characteristic of the Wiener Werkstätte graphic program. The postcard series, launched in 1907, eventually comprised nearly 1,000 unique designs and featured contributions from leading figures of the Viennese avant-garde. Kuhn contributed numerous architectural and urban views of Berlin, Vienna, and Budapest to the series. The work is held in the Drawings and Prints collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, catalogued as object WW.449.