Pötsch was an Austrian artist active between the Wars, whose work exists somewhere between moderate Expressionism and realistic tendencies. Using loose, dynamically set brush strokes, he achieves astonishing precision in his work as well as highly effective accents. Landscape and portrait painting were his passion.
He trained at the Regional Arts School in Graz under Heinrich August Schwach and Paul Schad-Rossa. From 1905 to 1914, he worked as Arts Director for the Nußdorf paper and tin printing industry in Vienna. He was able to learn about lithography from Viktor Mader at the Vienna Graphic Teaching and Experimental School. He taught there from 1922 to 1928.
In 1930, Pötsch became a member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus, taking part in numerous exhibitions, e.g. several of his portraits were shown at the “Current Austrian Portraiture” at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna in 1932, and he presented 16 landscape watercolors at the 55th Annual Exhibition in 1934. He designed 12 Kunstblätter [Art Sheets] for the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Haydn Memorial in 1932.
In 1934, Pötsch was awarded the Austrian State Prize together with Herbert Boeckl, Wilhelm Thöny and A.P. Gütersloh.
Exhibitions:
1919, 1920, 1928, 1929 Secession, Vienna
from 1924 on Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1932 "Austrian contemporary Artists", Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1934 "55. annual exhibition" Künstlerhaus, Vienna
Works at:
Vienna Museum
Austrian National Bank, Vienna
New Gallery near the Joanneum Regional Museum, Graz
Collections in Vienna and Graz
