SIKA, Jutta - b. 1877 Linz, d. 1964 Wien - WGA

SIKA, Jutta

(b. 1877 Linz, d. 1964 Wien)

Austrian painter, graphic artist, and handicraft designer. She studied at Vienna’s Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsantalt (Graphic Education and Research Institute) in 1895-97, then enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts), where she took classes - among others - under Koloman Moser.

Sika was a founding member of the Wiener Kunst im Hause (Viennese Art in the Home), a group established in 1901 whose members were drawn from the Kunstgewerbeschule. This group was regarded as a precursor to the Wiener Werkstätte, in part for its emphasis on creating unified interiors that embodied the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk or “total work of art.”

Sika was a skilled designer of ceramics and glass, working both for Josef Böck (ceramics) and E. Bakalowits & Söhne (glass). She designed women’s fashion for various firms, providing accessories to Schwestern Flöge (Flöge Sisters), embroidery designs to Wiener Stickerei, and collaborated with the Salon Hilda Kulmer.

Sika worked as a graphic designer as well, providing material for packaging, decorations and postcards. In the 1920s, Sika began to focus on painting, particularly floral subjects.

Lilac

In the 1920s, Sika focused on painting, particularly floral subjects.

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Owls

This woodcut is from the magazine Ver Sacrum, Page 329, Issue 1, 1903.

Ver Sacrum (in Latin: Sacred Spring) was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Founded by Gustav Klimt and Max Kurzweil, it was published from 1898 to 1903, featuring drawings and designs in the Secession style along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe.

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Teapot

This teapot is of hard-paste porcelain, with flat, pierced handles to body and lid; the flat bridge between spout and body is also pierced with a circular hole. It is decorated with a band of roses and lines stencilled in yellow, designed by Antoinette Krasnik.

The teapot is from the first of several services produced by in the Porzellan-Manufaktur Josef B�ck in Vienna and exhibited at the �sterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, in the early 1900s. It was first produced in undecorated white porcelain. With its striking combination of curvilinear outline and geometric handles, it was a remarkably bold design to put into production at the time, especially as the flat handles are impractical for a teapot and difficult to use.

At least five different patterns for this service are recorded, all designed by pupils of Kolo Moser at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Vienna. Many of the original drawings survive in the design archive of the firm of B�ck, now in the Museum f�r angewandte Kunst, Vienna.

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Teaset

Sika was a skilled designer of ceramics and glass, working both for Josef B�ck (ceramics) and E. Bakalowits & S�hne (glass).

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