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Otto Prutscher (1880 – 1949) was an Austrian architect and designer. After attending the Fachschule für Holzindustrie in Vienna, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1897 to 1901, under the guidance of Josef Hoffmann, who would later become director of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna laboratory).
Influenced by Hoffmann, Prutscher used geometric and square shapes in his early works, later moving on to more classical and indigenous motifs. Read the full biography

Otto Prutscher (1880 – 1949) was an Austrian architect and designer. After attending the Fachschule für Holzindustrie in Vienna, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1897 to 1901, under the guidance of Josef Hoffmann, who would later become director of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna laboratory).
Influenced by Hoffmann, Prutscher used geometric and square shapes in his early works, later moving on to more classical and indigenous motifs. In 1900 he participated in the Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Paris, opening his studio as an architect in Vienna in the same year. In 1902 he exhibited at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin.
From 1903 to 1909, Prutscher was a teacher at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, later teaching drawing at his former school, the Kunstgewerbeschule. Starting in 1907, he began producing glassware, textiles, furniture, hardcovers, metalwork, silverware, and jewelry, working for German companies such as Bakalowits, Loetz, Ludwig Hermann, Chwala, Lobmeyr, and Thonet. Prutscher was also involved with Keramos, the Wiener Kunst- Keramik und Porzellanmanufaktur, where renowned artists, such as the sculptors Klablena and Klieber, worked. In addition to his work as a designer, Prutscher continued to work as an architect.