Coffee pot from tea and coffee service, silver and ivory, Vienna, ca.1920, mark of J.C Klinkosch, designed by Otto Prutscher.

Silver and ivory tea and coffee service. The silver is fluted.

From a tea service. Otto Prutscher started his training in Vienna at the Fachschule für Holzindustrie (a woodworking college) before studying architecture from 1897 to 1901 under Josef Hoffman at the Kunstgewerbeschule. After graduating he worked as an independent architect for several years designing several interiors and exhibiting his designs at the Paris 1900 exhibition and the 1902 Turin exhibition. He also taught drawing at the Graphics Institute in Vienna from 1903 until 1909, when he was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1907, he produced numerous designs for the Wiener Werkstätte for glassware, textiles, furnishings, bookbindings, metalwork, silver and jewellery. He also designed glassware for Loetz and furniture for Thonet as well as maintaining his architectural practice. He became involved in Vienna's municipal building program and in 1919 he was appointed one of the municipal inspectors for vocational training. After the Anschluss in 1938, the Nazis dismissed him from his post at the Kunstgewerbeschule and he was not reinstated until after the war. Prutscher always acknowledged that his designs owed a considerable debt to Josef Hoffman.

This coffee pot comes from a tea and coffee service. Otto Prutscher started his training in Vienna at a woodworking college. From 1897 to 1901 he studied architecture under Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He then worked as an independent architect, designing interiors and exhibiting his designs at international exhibitions. He also taught drawing, and in 1909 he was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule. From 1907 he produced numerous designs for the Wiener Werkstätte ('Vienna Workshops'). These were for glassware, textiles, furnishings, bookbindings, metalwork, silver and jewellery. He also designed glassware for Loetz and furniture for Thonet. He maintained his architectural practice and became involved in Vienna's municipal building programme. After the Anschluss (the union of Austria and Germany) in 1938, the Nazis dismissed him from his post at the Kunstgewerbeschule. He was not reinstated until after the Second World War. Prutscher always acknowledged that his designs owed much to the influence of Josef Hoffmann.

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