Biography
Otto Prutscher, born in Vienna in 1880, first completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He then studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Josef Hoffmann and Franz von Matsch. He initially worked as a freelance architect, but from 1907 he increasingly produced designs for Hoffmann's Wiener Werkstätte. In addition to his design work, Prutscher had teaching assignments at the Graphic Teaching and Research Institute and from 1909 to 1938 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. He took part in numerous exhibitions. In 1947 Otto Prutscher was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Architecture. He died in Vienna in 1949.
