!!!Prutscher, Otto

b. Vienna, April 7, 1880, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 15, 1949, architect and designer, brother of Hans  
Prutscher. Initially studied in Paris and London, from 1897 at the 
Vienna School of Arts and Crafts under F.  Matsch sr. and Josef  
Hoffmann, from 1909-1938 and 1945-1946 also taught there. Especially 
1918-1938 prominent figure in arts and crafts in Vienna, co-founder of 
the  Wiener Werkstaette, designed furniture, jewellery, ceramics and 
book-covers.

!Works
Villas and houses in Lower Austria (Baden, Mitterbach, 
Erlaufsee), Styria (Mariazell) and Austria-Silesia (Jaegerndorf). - 
Council housing estates in Vienna: Heinehof, 5th district; Lorenshof, 
12th district. - Interior of the Dianabad public swimming baths, 2nd 
district of Vienna, 1913-1917 (demolished in 1967).

!Literature
M. Boeckl, O. P. 1880-1949, exhibition catalogue, 
Hochschule f. angew. Kunst in Wien, 1997.



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