Martin Eisler Biography
Born in Vienna in 1913, son of the famous art historian Max Eisler, one of the founders of the Austrian Werkbund, Martin Eisler studied in Vienna as a pupil of the well-known architects Oskar Strnad and Clemens Holzmeister. In 1938 he moved to Buenos Aires, where he immediately held his first exhibition of drawings and furnishings at the Mueller Gallery, which would become the future Salon of Fine Arts in 1940, at the Palais de Glace. In 1945, together with Arnold Hackel, he founded Interieur, a company that sold furniture and objects designed by the duo, thus starting his career as a designer, which also took him to Brazil, where in 1955 he joined forces with Carlo Hauner of the Moveis Artesanais company, becoming Artistic Director of the Forma company, in Sao Paulo. The Brazilian experience deepens Eisler's interest in exotic woods and the painting and lacquering techniques of wood, glass and bronze. Eisler's two companies then began to work in synergy, producing highly successful furniture, both in Argentina and Brazil, so much so that they signed a contract for Knoll International between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. , which will mark a growth and a historic affirmation, at the moment of maximum expansion of the contract market, with the foundation of the new capital Brasilia and Oscar Niemeyer's projects to which they contribute with great success.
