Erwin Puchinger

Erwin Puchinger was a Viennese painter, illustrator, industrial designer and graphic artist. He was an influential figure in Viennese art in the findesiecle. Puchinger was a part of the Austrian Jugendstil and Gesamtkunstwerk movements, which sought to erase the boundaries between fine art and applied art. Puchinger worked in London, Prague and Paris as well as Vienna and collaborated with other major figures in Viennese art and design such as Ernst and Gustav Klimt and Otto Prutscher. He was a respected art professor at the Graphic Arts Institute, where he taught for more than thirty years.

Erwin Puchinger was born in Vienna onJuly 1875. He came from a prominent family of Austrian officials. In 1891 and 1892, Puchinger began evening drawing classes at the newly opened Graphic Arts and Research Institute . This was an experimental institute that trained professionals in design and the graphic arts. Next, Puchinger studied at the School of Arts and Crafts , which was founded in 1867 as part of the new Austrian Museum of Science and Industry . Puchinger first studied with Ludwig Minnigerode and then with the famous muralist and art professor Franz von Matsch , who worked on decorative art with the brothers Gustav and Ernst Klimt , they had a decorating company that did elaborate murals for wealthy clients. Puchingers earliest known works are landscape and architectural drawings of 1892 and 1893, which were already of a professional quality.

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