Karl Hütter

In 1912 the Viennese Karl Hütter – fourteen years old at the time – started a family album. The poems, drinking slogans, collectors’ stamps and drawings combine at the beginning of the First World War to form a patriotically motivated collage directed especially against the “enemy states”, and, what is more, oriented on ideas of the supremacy of the German-language population in the Habsburg Monarchy. After the war, Karl Hütter worked as an administrative official in the commissariat service of the military.