Zwei Katzen

1892–1897 · Drawing

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1886–1892 · Formation
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
1890s
Applied arts: Mackintosh and the Arts and Crafts movement
In the 1890s he devotes himself extensively to the applied arts, strongly influenced by the Glasgow School artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and by the English Arts and Crafts movement.
1892–1893
Drawing tutor to an archduke's children at Wartholz
On Trenkwald's recommendation he becomes drawing teacher to the children of Archduke Karl Ludwig at Schloss Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax.
1892–1897 · Carrière
the Siebener-Club, forerunner of the Secession
From 1892 to 1897 he is a member of the art association known as the Siebener-Club (Club of Seven), the forerunner of the Vienna Secession.
1897
A founder of the Vienna Secession
He becomes one of the founders of the Vienna Secession, takes part in the architectural decoration of its building designed by Joseph Olbrich and sits on the association's exhibition committee. For the Secession's journal “Ver Sacrum” he creates about 140 illustrations.
1899
Begins teaching at the School of Applied Arts
From 1899 he teaches at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts); other accounts say that from 1900 to 1918 he was a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.