2015.23 Carl Otto Czeshcka, Design for playing card | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) member Carl Otto Czeschka was a highly prolific graphic designer whose oeuvre includes numerous examples of book illustrations, calendars, advertisements, and postcards. While unsigned, unmarked, and undocumented in archival records, the stylistic similarities between his graphic designs and this design for playing card--one of three in the Dallas Museum of Art collection--suggest the attribution to his hand. The stylized figure clothed in patterned garb and positioned in three quarters profile is reminiscent of those depicted in the double-page lithograph illustrations Czeschka produced for Franz Keim's Die Niebelungen (2014.35), published in 1909 by Gerlach & Wiedling as part of its Jugendbücherei (Youth Library) series.

Adapted from

Samantha Robinson, Label text (2015.23), 2014.

NOTES

Updated TMS - GeoXrefs place of birth and death,

Updated source and added CC - JBA 10/1/2017

UPDATE 1/5/2017, HAB:

removed Wiener Werkstatte as manufacturer in "Constituents" field of TMS
updated Provenance, bibliography, and geo x refs in TMS

89.2014.1 is the design for playing card in the center of the above image.

Unable to remove Wiener Werkstätte as manufacturer in "Constituents" field of TMS due to object status as an acquisition consideration.

Unable to update Provenance, Exhibition History, Bibliography and Published References in TMS due to object status as an acquisition consideration.

Provenance: See below.

Exhibition History: See below.

Bibliography:

Brandstätter, Christian. "Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna, 1903-1932: Architecture, Furniture, Commercial Art, Postcards, Bookbinding, Posters, Glass, Ceramics, Metal, Fashion, Textiles, Accessories, Jewelry." New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.

Fahr-Becker, Gabriele. "Wiener Werkstaette: 1903-1932." Köln; New York: Taschen, 1995.

Fanelli, Giovanni. "Carl Otto Czeschka: dalla seccessione viennese all'Art déco." Firenzze: Cantini, 1990.

Schweiger, Werner J. "Wiener Werkstaette: Design in Vienna, 1904-1932." New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.

Spielmann, Heinz, Hella Häustler, and Sabine Lurtz-Herting. "Carl Otto Czeschka, 1878-1960: ein Wiener Künstler und die Hamburger Wirtschaft." Hamburg: Handelskammer Hambburg; Elsbeth Weichmann Gesellschaft, 2011.

Stege, Leonore, Heinz Spielmann, and Frauke Carstensen. "Carl Otto Czeschka: Aspekte seines Lebenswerkes: zum 100. Geburgstag am 22, Oktober 1978." Hamburg: Interversa Gesellschaft für Beteiligungen, 1978.

Published References:

Zetter, Christa and Katharina Zetter-Karner. "Die Wiener Werkstätte: ein Gesamtkunstwerk." Wien: Galerie bei der Albertina Zetter GmbH, 2003. Illustrated: p. 96.

Catalogue essays

Wiener Werkstätte (1903-1932)

Artist/designers

Czeschka, Carl Otto (Austrian, 1878 - 1960)

Cultures

Geography

Process/materials

Historical periods

1900 A.D.-present (Central Europe)

Individuals

Subject terms

Wiener Werkstätte (Austrian, 1903 - 1932)

Jugendstil

89.2014.3 Carl Otto Czeshcka, Design for playing card

PROVENANCE

Until 2015: Rita Bucheit, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois

From 2015: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from the above

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General Description

Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) member Carl Otto Czeschka was a highly prolific graphic designer whose oeuvre includes numerous examples of book illustrations, calendars, advertisements, and postcards. While unsigned, unmarked, and undocumented in archival records, the stylistic similarities between his graphic designs and this design for playing card--one of three in the Dallas Museum of Art collection--suggest the attribution to his hand. The stylized figure clothed in patterned garb and positioned in three quarters profile is reminiscent of those depicted in the double-page lithograph illustrations Czeschka produced for Franz Keim's Die Niebelungen (2014.35), published in 1909 by Gerlach & Wiedling as part of its Jugendbücherei (Youth Library) series.