Otto Prutscher

Ceramic Fireplace by Otto Prutscher with the serial number 8610, Wienerberger.

About the artist:
Otto Prutscher
* 07.04.1880 Vienna
+ 15.02.1949 Vienna

Trained as an architect and craftsmen at the College of Wood Industry and School of Applied Arts in Vienna, teached by Hoffmann and others. Working as teacher at the Graphic Arts Research Institute and at the School of Applied Arts since 1910. Then as special inspector of educationtraining in Vienna. His strictly geometric glasses are among the finest works of the Wiener Werkstätte. Between the wars involved into the Gemeindebauprogramm of the City of Vienna. Participation in all major exhibitions of the Wiener Werkstätte. Member of the Austrian and German Werkbund, the Künstlerhaus and the Central Association of Austrian Architects.
(Source Biographies: “Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932”, Gabriele Fahr-Becker, Taschen-Verlag)

• Künstler/in:  Otto Prutscher
• Entstehung:  about 1915
• Angebotsstatus:  SOLD