Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9

Carl Otto Czeschka
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #93: "Science" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka

1897

$3,200
£2,390.25
€2,771.11
CA$4,443.12
A$4,980.17
CHF 2,593.03
MX$60,809.95
NOK 32,922.01
SEK 31,207.10
DKK 20,675.48
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figure in promoting the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk (total art concept). His extraordinarily fine work in graphic design, furniture, metalwork, textiles and jewelry established his reputation as an artist of the highest rank. Czeschka’s graphic designs, predominantly flat, attenuated, and delicate, represent a departure from the slightly earlier rectilinear styles of Moser and Hoffmann. Instead of checkerboards and grids, we suddenly find delightful vines and flowers that foreshadow the art deco period of the mid-1920s to mid-1930s. Czeschka is perhaps best known today for the eight double-page illustrations for Franz Keim’s abridged Nibelung saga and for the program cover designed for Vienna’s Fledermaus Cabaret. While the artist’s work belongs unmistakably to the avant-garde of fin de siècle Vienna, it continues to appeal to art lovers for its timeless qualities of drama and elegance. ALLEGORIEN-NEUE FOLGE, 1897, published by Gerlach & Schenk Verlag fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Vienna, was a serial publication that began as Allegorien und Embleme in 1882. A sourcebook of inspiration made for and by young Viennese artists became something of a galvanizer of the modernist movement in Vienna with its new series issued in 1897. Its publisher, Martin Gerlach, plucked young artists and even art students who were exploring the newest techniques in drafting and graphic design to contribute to his publication. This was the beginning of a long-standing relationship. In the forward to the 1897 edition, Gerlach, expounds upon the new approach which consciously shifted away from historicism rooted in the conservative Academy. Instead, the artists were encouraged to explore new subjects and new ways to present them. More unconventional subjects such as: Wine, Love, Song, Music and Dance; Arts and Sciences; the Seasons and their corresponding activities, sports and amusements, breathed fresh, modern life into the allegorical genre. Specific topics that were explored ranged from Electricity and new concepts of Work and Time to Bicycle Sport and the Graphic Arts. Essentially, the publication served as a portable forum for sharing and disseminating new ideas. Two contributors, a young Gustav Klimt and an even younger Koloman Moser, likely met through their involvement with Allegorien and found themselves to be like-minded artists. As a result, the two allied with other artists and architects in a dramatic and formal break with the established, conservative state-run arts (Kunstlerhausgenessenschaft) to found the Vienna Secession the very next year in 1898. Klimt became the Secession’s first President; while Moser, in 1903, expanded the group from a solely exhibition-based focus to include a workshop by co-founding the Wiener Werkstatte. Gerlach went on to publish some issues of the Secession’s journal called Ver Sacrum as well as postcards designed by its members. The Viennese art critic, Joseph August, called Gerlach the “Fuhrer der Moderne” (Leader of Modernism). The new 1897 series, featuring its innovative and modern art plates, is an important art historical document as it played a significant role in helping shape the avant-garde art movement in Vienna which exploded onto the scene with the formation of the Vienna Secession in 1898. Individually, the plates are important works; they are noteworthy for their stylistically and thematically modern approach. These plates offer some of the earliest examples of Viennese avant-garde and Secession artists’ published work.
  • Creator:
    Carl Otto Czeschka (1878 - 1960, Austrian)
  • Creation Year:
    1897
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 17.25 in (43.82 cm)Width: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Chicago, IL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU46731447353

More From This Seller

View All
Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #114: "Vignettes" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #78: "Astronomy, The Creation, The Lie" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #116: "Force, Thirst, Love" Lithograph
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #83: "Seasons" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital f...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #98: "Poetry" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Gerlach's Allegorien Plate #85: "Hunting" Lithograph by Carl Otto Czeschka
By Carl Otto Czeschka
Located in Chicago, IL
after Carl Otto Czeschka, (1878-1960), Austrian A leading member of the Vienna Secession and later the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese Workshop), Carl Otto Czeschka was a vital figu...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

You May Also Like

Spring by Robert Engels, Medieval Art Nouveau lithograph with gold ink, 1897
By Robert Engels
Located in Chicago, IL
Allegorien-Neue Folge was a serialized folio published in installments between 1895 and 1900. Martin Gerlach, its publisher, was inspired by the rise of modernist design in Vienna an...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

The Goddess - Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
The Goddess is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1923. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: Ferdinand...
Category

1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Thirst, Plate 52 from Gerlach's Allegorien, Vienna Secession lithograph
Located in Chicago, IL
Wilhelm List, a friend and follower of Gustav Klimt, was a founder and leading member of the Vienna Secession and contributor to its official magazine, Ver Sacrum...
Category

1890s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

The Coronation - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Coronation is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in the 1920s. Original Lithograph on ivory paper.Image dimensions: 19 x 14 cm. Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. Bac 1922. Excellent conditions. The Coronation is an excellent Liberty Style artwork realized by the French artist Ferdinand Bac in the Second decade of the XX Century. The work depicts a female figure bent over a man seated on a throne who is offering her a crown of flowers. The scene is enriched by the other characters that are carrying vases full of flowers. This work has been realized the French artist Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida...
Category

1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Revelation - Original Lithograph by F. Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
The Revelation is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Original Lithograph on ivory paper. Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner...
Category

1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Renewal - Original lithograph - 1897
By Émile Berchmans
Located in Paris, IDF
Emile BERCHMANS Renewal Original lithograph Printed signature in the plate 1897/98 Printed on paper Vélin Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12") INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Modern...
Category

1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph