OTTO PRUTSCHER
Exhibition in the MAK

Otto Prutscher (1880–1949) was an architect, exhibition designer, and teacher, and a member of all important movements to reform art from the Secession to the Werkbund.
The manufactory saves original designs of this great master in its archive. Guided by his valuable template drawings, the silversmiths reproduce tableware from Prutscher’s legacy: an artistic jug, distinctive cutlery patterns, tea services, candelabras, vases, and bowls made of fine silver.

The show is curated by Rainald Franz, curator of the MAK collection ‘Glass and Ceramics’, and will open on 19 November 2019. The timeless jug from the 1930s, which has been placed in the Wiener Silber Manufactur once more, is a testament to Prutscher’s living legacy.