Anton Nowak (10 May 1865 – 28 May 1932) was an Austrian artist and graphic designer.
Nowak was born in Maribor and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Karl Müller.[1] In 1894, he joined the Vienna Künstlerhaus.
He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession,[2] and had a work shown at the group's first exhibition.[3] Nowak contributed woodcuts to the group's magazine Ver Sacrum, taking inspiration from the northern Adriatic region.He was on the group's working committee in 1898,[4] 1902,[5] and served as the group's president in 1908-09.
He also painted watercolours of Austrian countryside and the city of Brno, where he ran a painting school. He may have died in the city, but this is not certain.
Nowak's paintings were brightly coloured and naturalistic; under the Secession's influence, he experimented with pointillism in the style of Théo van Rysselberghe. His work as a designer was firmly within the Secession's tradition. He was influenced by Theodor von Hörmann.