Teschner Richard

Carlsbad 1879 - 1948 Vienna

Decorative painter, sculptor and graphic artist, puppeteer

Because of his extraordinarily imaginative and multifaceted work, Teschner was called the "Wizard of Gersthof". He created theater sets and puppets, book illustrations, sculptures and postcards, and held a teaching position as a professor. Teschner was a member of the Klimt group as well as the Wiener Werkstätte, for which he designed postcards, sculptures, metalwork, goblets and book illustrations.

Ref.: M. Pabst, Wiener Graphik um 1900, p. 338 f; A. Roessler, Richard Teschner, Vienna 1947; H. Fuchs, Die österreichischen Maler, vol. 4, K 89; H. Ricke (ed.), Lötz, Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Munich 1989, vol. 1, p. 241.