| Otto Prutscher: Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism Contributor(s): Thun-Hohenstein (Author), Christoph (Author), Rainald, Franz (Author) |
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ISBN: 3897905698 ISBN-13: 9783897905696 Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH OUR PRICE: $58.50 Product Type: Paperback Language: German Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.3" W x 10.2" (1.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: -Monograph on the famous modernist designer Otto Prutscher -Prutscher was member of the Secession, Wiener Werkst tte and the Werkbund -Accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna Otto Prutscher (1880-1949) was an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the Secession to the Wiener Werkst tte and the Werkbund. The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna - possesses a comprehensive graphic bequest and many significant objects from Prutscher's design oeuvre. Selected examples of Prutscher's creative work document his long-lasting influential role as a designer and artistic adviser for decorative art companies from Johann Loetz to Thonet. The publication conducts an audit of Prutscher's work as a pacemaker of Viennese modernism - over twenty years since the last show in Vienna and seventy years on from his death. Text in English and German. |
