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WW Artists - Bertold Löffler (1874-1960)  "The Angel Maker", Design for "Lucifer"-title page, 1903. © Bertold Löffler - Vagant zwischen Secessionismus und Neobiedermeier", exhibition catalogue, ed.. Erika Patka, Vienna, 2000 Experienced in virtually all disciplines, Löffler devoted himself to poster art and book illustration as well as to fresco painting and to ceramics. Together with his college friend Michael Powolny he worked for the WW - in 1906 they established the ceramic art company "Wiener Keramik" (WK) together; the following year he took over the master class "Malerei" (painting), which he conducted until his retirement in 1935. Although Löffler himself was active in the field of ceramics at the beginning, he left this area to other artists such as Emil Meier, Olga Sitte or Ida Schwetz-Lehmann after the establishment of the WK.
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