Carl Otto Czecshka.

• Trained at the Akademie der bildenden Künste 1894-99 in Vienna
• As well as being an affluent artist of the period, Czecshka also taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna from 1902-1907
• Member of the Secession in 1900
• Member of the Wiener Werstatte from fall 1905 onwards
• He was a multidisciplinary artist, with skills ranging from illustration, textile design and metal crafts
• Handicraft and commercial art
• His most important work were a series of illustrations for the book Nibelungen