DOI Heft:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: Otto Prutscher: a young Viennese designer of interiors
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0060
Otto Prutscher
crystal glass vases designed by otto prutscher
executed by bakalowitz & sons
developments. For each time he has shown a worth doing well, and only those who truly feel this
rapid and healthy advance on previous achieve- can hope to achieve lasting work. He is compre-
ments ; he has shown that his power is gradually hensive too, quick in apprehension, and moreover
ripening and sending forth fresh shoots. He always possesses in an eminent degree that feeling for art
seeks his own way, and is neither a plagiarist nor an which seems to be the birthright of the Viennese, a
imitator. His principles are sound and will bear sympathy expressed in the joyousness of life, and
the test of time. Beginnings are alwTays difficult— which shows its expression particularly among
more especially so if one must gain to live. But
Prutscher has got beyond the beginnings, and
overcome obstacles, though not all—that would be
a pity at twenty-six. The future lies before him,
and if he continues in the way he has begun it
will be a good one.
At. present Prutscher has not had the oppor-
tunity of showing what he can do as an architect
of houses and villas. Turning an old garment into
a new one is generally a thankless task, yet he has
been successful in this, too, for he has reformed
an old house and achieved much in the internal
decorations by a judicious use of aluminium fittings.
He has also been successful in the arrangement
of. two shops—one in that centre of modern art,
Darmstadt, and the other in Vienna. The latter is a
delightful home of art and artistic photographs.
The wood-work is enamelled white, everything looks
refreshing and scrupulously clean, and, though the
shop itself is a tiny one, very good use has been
made of the space at his command. A judicious
and tasteful, arrangement of a gallery adds to the
artistic value of the whole. Here, as in his other
undertakings, that true feeling for beauty with
which Prutscher is endowed finds concrete expres- CL0CK designed by otto prutscher
. . . . executed by malek & watzinger
sion. With him what is worth doing at all is panel pictures by r. geyling
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crystal glass vases designed by otto prutscher
executed by bakalowitz & sons
developments. For each time he has shown a worth doing well, and only those who truly feel this
rapid and healthy advance on previous achieve- can hope to achieve lasting work. He is compre-
ments ; he has shown that his power is gradually hensive too, quick in apprehension, and moreover
ripening and sending forth fresh shoots. He always possesses in an eminent degree that feeling for art
seeks his own way, and is neither a plagiarist nor an which seems to be the birthright of the Viennese, a
imitator. His principles are sound and will bear sympathy expressed in the joyousness of life, and
the test of time. Beginnings are alwTays difficult— which shows its expression particularly among
more especially so if one must gain to live. But
Prutscher has got beyond the beginnings, and
overcome obstacles, though not all—that would be
a pity at twenty-six. The future lies before him,
and if he continues in the way he has begun it
will be a good one.
At. present Prutscher has not had the oppor-
tunity of showing what he can do as an architect
of houses and villas. Turning an old garment into
a new one is generally a thankless task, yet he has
been successful in this, too, for he has reformed
an old house and achieved much in the internal
decorations by a judicious use of aluminium fittings.
He has also been successful in the arrangement
of. two shops—one in that centre of modern art,
Darmstadt, and the other in Vienna. The latter is a
delightful home of art and artistic photographs.
The wood-work is enamelled white, everything looks
refreshing and scrupulously clean, and, though the
shop itself is a tiny one, very good use has been
made of the space at his command. A judicious
and tasteful, arrangement of a gallery adds to the
artistic value of the whole. Here, as in his other
undertakings, that true feeling for beauty with
which Prutscher is endowed finds concrete expres- CL0CK designed by otto prutscher
. . . . executed by malek & watzinger
sion. With him what is worth doing at all is panel pictures by r. geyling
40