Otto Prutscher - vendere e comprare opere
7 April 1880, Vienna (Austria) - 15 February 1949, Vienna (Austria)
Otto Prutscher was an Austrian Art Nouveau architect and designer.
The trained carpenter attended the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied under Josef Hoffmann and Franz von Matsch. He worked as a freelance architect after graduating. He worked as a designer at the Vienna Workshop starting in 1907. Besides his work as an artist, Prutscher taught at the Federal Education and Research Institute for Graphics from 1902 and at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts from 1909-1938. The architect Hans Prutscher was his brother. Throughout his life, Otto Prutscher contributed works to numerous exhibitions and produced designs for companies such as Thonet and Backhausen. Otto Prutscher was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 1947.
Otto Prutscher’s work has already featured successfully in several Dorotheum auctions - for instance, a “Box with Table” designed by Prutscher sold for €244,414 on 20 May 2015.