Moriz Jung: The Chess players (1911)

(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA)

A lithograph made by the Austrian artist Moriz Jung (1885-1915). This print comes a large set of postcards from the Wiener Werkstätte. The Wiener Werkstätte was as an alliance of artists and designers. They produced a wide range of products such as ceramics, fashion, jewelry, furniture and the graphic arts. Their customers were artists and the Jewish upper middle class supporters of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lithograh from 1911.