Architectural sketches by Otto Rieth.
Otto Rieth (1858-1911) was a German art nouveau architect, who is more or less forgotten today but who, judging from his frequent and prominent appearance in art and architecture magazines of the day, was held in quite high regard during the art nouveau period. His style is slightly reminiscent of Otto Wagner’s but less personal and more fantastic. As John Coulthart points out, several of Rieth’s sketches seem “more suited to Bayreuth or the pages of The Lord of the Rings than the German landscape.”