Dagobert Peche

Dagobert Peche (3 April 1887, Sankt Michael/Lungau, Duchy of Salzburg – 16 April 1923, Modling) was an Austrian artist and metalworker designer.^[1]

Dagobert Peche
Dagobert Peche c. 1920
Born	(1887-04-03)3 April 1887 Sankt Michael im Lungau, Austria
Died	16 April 1923(1923-04-16) (aged 36) Modling, Austria
Style	Spiky Baroque
Movement	Wiener Werkstätte

Career

He joined the Wiener Werkstätte in 1915 and exhibited at Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne^[2] and then became a co-director thereof in 1916.^[3] Whilst there in the early 1920s he introduced a 'spiky baroque' style^[4] inspired by folk-art, and using flowers, animals and human figures as decorative motifs.^[2]