Oskar Laske Art

Oskar Laske was a painter and architect. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Wien and at the Academy of Visual Arts, where he met Otto Wagner, who became his teacher. Laske worked as a freelance architect and painter from 1904. A self-taught artist, Laske traveled to various countries in Europe, America and the Middle East, where he used to paint both landscapes and people of those places. During World War I, Laske was an officer in Galicia and at the front of Isonzo. In 1924, he started joining the Viennese Secession, and he became famous not only in Austria but also internationally. In 1939, he became a member of the Künstlerhaus. In his last years, he was an established artist, and he dedicated himself to smaller works, etchings and watercolors.