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ID: 500014296 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500014296			Record Type: Person

Preissig, Vojtěch (Czech painter and printmaker, 1873-1944)

Note: He went to Paris in 1897 to work under Alphonse Mucha and studied grafics and photographic techniques. When he returned to Prague in 1903, he opened his own printing studio and published the review Česká Grafika. He lived in the United States from 1910-1930, teaching graphic arts in New York as well as acting as the director of the School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Wentworth Institute, Boston from 1916-1926. From the 1920s, his original secessionist style became more abstract and dependent on geometric forms. He worked with the resistance movement during WWII and died in a Nazi concentration camp.

Names:
	Preissig, Vojtěch (preferred,V,index)
	Vojtěch Preissig (V,display)
	Preissig, Vojtech (V,Dutch-P,NA)
	Preissig, Adalbert (V)
	Preissig, Vojtech Adalbert (V)
	Pressig, Vojtech Adalbert (V)
	Vojtech Preissig (V)

Nationalities:
	Czech (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	designer
	illustrator
	teacher

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Died: Dachau (Bavaria, Germany) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Preissig, Vojtěch (I)

Biographies:


	(Czech painter and printmaker, 1873-1944) ..... [VP Preferred] (Czech printmaker, painter, 1873-1944) ..... [BHA] (Czech artist, 1873-1944) ..... [WCP] (Czech artist, 1873-1944) ..... [WL-Courtauld] (Czech printmaker, 1873-1944) ..... [Grove Art] (Czech artist, 1873-1944) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Preissig, Adalbert ........	[VP]
......................................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 14 March 2008

Preissig, Vojtěch ........	[BHA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred]
....................................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)

Preissig, Vojtech ........	[RKD Preferred, VP, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
....................................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 14 March 2008
....................................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 64710
....................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Preissig, Vojtech Adalbert ........	[VP]
.....................................................	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 11:351

Pressig, Vojtech Adalbert ........	[VP]
...................................................	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 11:351

Vojtěch Preissig ........	[VP]
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Vojtech Preissig ........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
..................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........	[BHA, Gallery Systems, Grove Art, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 14 March 2008
....................	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 11:351
....................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................	Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84050255
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84050255
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 64710
....................	Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................	Wikidata online (2000-) Q315608
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]

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