Dagobert Peche (3 April 1887,
Sankt Michael/
Lungau
Bezirk Tamsweg is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in the federal state of Salzburg, Austria. It is congruent with the Lungau region (). The administrative centre of the district is Tamsweg.
Geography
The area of the Lungau plateau is 1 ...
,
Duchy of Salzburg
The Duchy of Salzburg () was a Cisleithanian crown land of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary from 1849 to 1918. Its capital was Salzburg, while other towns in the duchy included Zell am See and Gastein. Before becoming a crown land, Sal ...
– 16 April 1923,
Modling) was an
Austrian
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artist and
metalworker
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designer.
Career
He joined the
Wiener Werkstätte
The Wiener Werkstätte ("Vienna Workshop"), established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser, the architect Josef Hoffmann and the patron Fritz Waerndorfer, was a productive association in Vienna, Austria that brought to ...
in 1915 and exhibited at Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne
and then became a co-director thereof in 1916. Whilst there in the early 1920s he introduced a 'spiky baroque' style
inspired by folk-art, and using flowers, animals and human figures as decorative motifs.
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An example of Dagobert Peche's work
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1887 births
1923 deaths
People from Tamsweg District
Austrian artists
Wiener Werkstätte
People from the Duchy of Salzburg
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