A recent visit to one of Julius Meinl’s coffeehouses brought to mind another Austrian who made the planet a more creative and interesting place: Koloman Moser. Moser was born in Vienna in 1868 and died in 1918, and throughout his varied career was a painter, graphic designer and printmaker who also worked with ceramics, tapestries, textiles, jewelry and stained glass. Moser was one of the driving forces behind the Wiener Werkstätte movement and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession with Gustav Klimt and various others. This Moser painting is from around 1913 and titled Waldwiese, which seems to translate to something like Forest Meadow in English.
