Otto Rudolf Schatz
19 albums/200 artworks – Otto Rudolf Schatz (1900 – 1961) was born in Vienna, Austria, and became a notable book illustrator, graphic artist, and painter who occupies an important place in European art of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, where his teachers included Oskar Strnad and Anton von Kenner. After completing his military service in 1918, Schatz briefly returned to the Kunstgewerbeschule but left after three months. He then took on a variety of jobs—working as a gardener, a house painter, and a draftsman for a factory—before deciding to pursue a career as a freelance artist. During the 1920s and 1930s Schatz illustrated numerous books and contributed graphics to several Social‑Democratic newspapers…
