1900 - 1957

The designer and painter Carl Auböck is one of the most extraordinary personalities of Austrian modernism.

After versatile accomplishments (1914-17 apprenticeship to a bronze and chisel worker in his parents workshop, 1917-19 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1919-21 years at the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student of Johannes Itten) he takes over the workshop of his father 1926.
While at that time in the workshop he still pursues the traditional productionline for his customers in Vienna and the USA (the ,Wiener Bronzen' and Art Deco), his paintings soon accomplish to a high artistic range and he creates masterpieces of Austrian modernism.

With the beginning of the fourties he developes his very particular style for handcrafted accessories and high class homerequisites that - after the war - make him famous on an international standard. His design career reaches the top at the Triennale di Milano 1954, where he receives four goldmedals for his work. At the end of the fourties he begins the collaboration with his son.