Carl Witzmann

_{Vienna 1883 - 1952 Vienna}

Carl Witzmann was born in Vienna in 1883. He studied architecture at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna under Josef Hofmann and Hermann Herdtle from 1900 to 1904. Witzmann and Hofmann were lifelong friends and they worked at the Wiener Werkstätte together. In 1908 he became a teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule. Besides the Wiener Werkstätte, Witzmann designed for Thonet, Backhausen and Lobmeyr. Carl Witzmann died in 1952 in Vienna.