Whiskey Glass

"Hallmarks of Austrian Jugendstil, such as the taste for abstract, cubic, and rectilinear forms, emerged in the 1890s. These characteristics derived from the progressive architectural designs of Otto Wagner. His students such as Josef Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann later assimilated these qualities in their work, as did many of Hoffmann's students at the Applied Arts School in Vienna. Otto Prutscher, who studied and in 1910 became a professor at the school, designed bold, architectonic works of cut glass for the Wiener Werkstätte. His whiskey glass and wine goblet synthesize the Bohemian technique of colored and cut glass, the classic and robust forms of early nineteenth-century Biedermeier glassware in an elegant, three-dimensional rendering of Hoffmann's Quadratstil." (Skrypzak, Design Vienna 1890s to 1930s, no. 37-38)