Vojtech Preissig (1873–1944) was a Czech typographer, printmaker, designer, illustrator, painter and teacher. He studied in Prague at the School of Applied Industrial Art from 1892 to 1896 and at the School of Decorative Architecture from 1897 to 1898. He moved to the US in 1910 where he taught at Columbia University and the Art Students League of New York. He moved to Boston by 1916 and taught a course in graphic arts for the Wentworth Institute and became the director of the School of Printing and Graphic Arts, until 1926. In 1931 he returned to Czechoslovakia. When the Czech lands were occupied by Nazi Germany, he actively participated in the anti-Nazi resistance movement. In September, 1940, he was captured, imprisoned, and transported to the concentration camp in Dachau, where he died on June 11, 1944.
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Vlcková, Lucie. Vojtech Preissig. Prague: Museum of Decorative Art, 2012. p. 211. [illustration only]