Hugo Kirsch

_{Hainsdorf, Böhmen 1873 - 1961 Wien}

Hugo F. Kirsch was educated at the Technical College in Teplitz and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Munich. From 1898 onwards he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, initially under Breitner and later under Linke. Kirsch became a freelance artist in 1903 and founded his own art ceramics workshop in 1906 located at Moßbachergasse 18 in Vienna’s 13th District. In the years from 1906 to 1914 Kirsch often participated in exhibitions of what was then the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, the present-day MAK Vienna. His work was also exhibited at the famous Kunstschau of 1908 and again in 1909 in Vienna. Hugo F. Kirsch created alongside bronzes, figures, animals and vessels out of ceramic and porcelain, whereby a predilection for geometrical décor and black-and-white contrasts are apparent particularly in his vases.