Otto Rudolf Schatz 1900–1961

Otto Rudolf Schatz is counted among the most important Austrian artists of the New Objectivity. Painter, printmaker, book illustrator and stage designer, he trained at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and was a member of the Hagenbund, the progressive Viennese artists’ association, from 1928 to 1938.

This richly illustrated volume follows his whole career: the expressive woodcut books of the 1920s such as Die Neue Stadt and Zirkus, the monumental figure paintings and landscapes of the interwar years, and New York subjects such as From the Brooklyn Bridge (1936–37). A preliminary catalogue of works closes the book.

The texts are by Dietrich Kraft and Matthias Boeckl, who teaches the history and theory of architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and has curated major exhibitions on the Hagenbund. The English translation is by Nick Somers.

An English-language resource on interwar Austrian modernism, for collectors, libraries and students of Viennese art beyond Klimt and Schiele.