Otto Prutscher Unique and Monumental Fountain - grosser Springbrunnen

Executed by Michael Powolny for the Wienerberger Keramikwerkstaetten, stoneware, ochre coloured body holding a dish in her outstreched arms standing above a three-tired cascade of basins with fluted decoration.

Literature: Karl Maria Grimme, Gärten von Albert Esch, Wien, Leipzig 1931 p.29;

Elisabeth Frottier, Michael Powolny, Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Wien, Köln 1990 n, 237;

Waltraud Neuwirth, Österreichische Keramik des Jugendstils, Wien 1974 p. 290;

further a very detailed expertise dated 2006 by Maria Emberger from the Federal monuments office of Austria, in which she pointed out the exceptional importance of this monument. 

Material

Ceramics