Vojtech preissig biography for kids

Czech designer and typographer (1873–1944)

Vojtěch Preissig (also, Voitech Preissig) (31 July 1873 – 11 June 1944)^[1][2] was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher.

He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art (in Friedrich Ohmann's Decorative Architecture workshop)^[1][2] from 1892 to 1896 and at the School of Decorative Architecture from 1897 to 1898.^[3]

Life

Vojtěch Preissig was born on 31 July 1873 in Světec, northern Bohemia.^[1][2] His father was a mining engineer.^[5] In 1884 he moved to Prague^[5] where he studied at the School of Applied Industrial Art from 1892 to 1896, then at the School of Decorative Architecture from 1897 to 1898.^[1] In 1897 he moved to Paris and worked for two years with the Czech Art Nouveau artist, Alphonse Mucha.^[6] His early, Secessionist, work was