He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.[2] He was elected to the presidency of the group in 1902.[3][4] His painting, At the Fountain of Love, was exhibited with the group;[5] it won him the Reichel Prize from the Academy,[6] and it was bought by the Moderne Galerie (now the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere).[7]
With Richard Kauffungen in 1900, he ran classes for a women's art school on drawing and painting from living models.[8] In 1914, he was made a professor of the Vienna Academy.[9]
^"Sammlungen". Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe. 27: 455. 1908.
^Olga Stieglitz; Gerhard Zeillinger; Hildegunde Suete-Willer (2008). Der Bildhauer Richard Kauffungen (1854-1942) zwischen Ringstrasse, Künstlerhaus und Frauenkunstschule. p. 133. ISBN9783631522035.
^"Personal-Nachrichten". Die Kunst für alle: Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur. 5/6: 120. 1914.