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== Life == |
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Carl Otto Czeschka was half [[Bohemia]]n and half |
Carl Otto Czeschka was half [[Bohemia]]n and half Moravian origin. His father Wenzel Czeschka (''Václav Češka'', 1845–1915) was a master carpenter, and his mother Mathilde Hafner (1853–1883) worked as a [[seamstress]] and [[embroiderer]]. Carl Otto Czeschka was raised in Vienna under very poor background. He lived in the [[:de:Liste der Straßennamen von Wien/Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus#Z|Zinckgasse]] 6, {{Interlanguage link multi|Neu-Fünfhaus|de}}, {{Interlanguage link multi|Fünfhaus|de}}, [[Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus]].<ref>or today's [[:de:Liste der Straßennamen von Wien/Ottakring#N|Neumayrgasse]], [[Ottakring]]</ref> He worked intensely as a designer and book illustrator, making designs for many books, leaflets, programs, placards, and related media. He was a friend of [[Gustav Klimt]]. |
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His best known book is an art edition of the German tale "The Nibelungs" (Die [[Nibelungen]]), full in the [[Vienna Secession|Sezesion]] style that was predominant at his time. |
His best known book is an art edition of the German tale "The Nibelungs" (Die [[Nibelungen]]), full in the [[Vienna Secession|Sezesion]] style that was predominant at his time. |
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Czeschka's work encompassed various mediums, including [[painting]], [[graphic design]], and [[applied arts]], and he played a significant role in shaping the [[Aesthetics|aesthetic]] of the Art Nouveau era. |
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== Further reading == |
== Further reading == |
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Carl Otto Czeschka (22 October 1878, Vienna – 30 July, 1960, Hamburg) was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte.
Life
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Carl Otto Czeschka was half Bohemian and half Moravian origin. His father Wenzel Czeschka (Václav Češka, 1845–1915) was a master carpenter, and his mother Mathilde Hafner (1853–1883) worked as a seamstress and embroiderer. Carl Otto Czeschka was raised in Vienna under very poor background. He lived in the Zinckgasse 6, Neu-Fünfhaus, Fünfhaus, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.[1] He worked intensely as a designer and book illustrator, making designs for many books, leaflets, programs, placards, and related media. He was a friend of Gustav Klimt.
His best known book is an art edition of the German tale "The Nibelungs" (Die Nibelungen), full in the Sezesion style that was predominant at his time.
Czeschka's work encompassed various mediums, including painting, graphic design, and applied arts, and he played a significant role in shaping the aesthetic of the Art Nouveau era.
Further reading
- Stasny, Peter. "Czeschka, Carl Otto." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required).
- Vergo, Peter (1975). Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, and their Contemporaries. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-1600-0.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carl Otto Czeschka.
- Literature by and about Carl Otto Czeschka in the German National Library catalogue
- Entry for Carl Otto Czeschka on the Union List of Artist Names
References
- ^ or today's Neumayrgasse, Ottakring
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