Carl Otto Czeschka

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Koloman Moser (1907), Portrait of Carl Otto Czeschka

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 (Vaclav Češka, 1845–1915) was a master carpenter; and his mother Mathilde Hafner (1853–1883), working as a seamstress and embroiderer. Carl Otto Czeschka raised in Vienna under very poor background. He lived in the Zinckgasse 6,  [de],  [de], Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.^[1] He worked intensely as a designer and book illustrator, making designs for many books, leaflets, programs, placards, etc. 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.

Further reading[]

• . "Czeschka, Carl Otto." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required).
• (1975). Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, and their Contemporaries. London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-1600-0.

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• 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

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