[3] In 1892, Watzek was involved in a commission focused on the reform of secondary school art education within the Association of Austrian Drawing Teachers.

He joined the Vienna Camera Club (German: Wiener Camera-Klub), a group of amateur photographers formed to advance artistic photography, established in 1891.

[8] He was admitted to the Linked Ring by 1894, alongside Austrian photographer Hugo Henneberg, and during that year, he became associated with Heinrich Kühn.

[9] The trio of Watzek, Henneberg, and Kühn were at the forefront of the Pictorialist movement in Austria, forming the "Trifolium" (or "Das Kleeblatt") by 1897.

[12] At the 1904 Great Art Exhibition (German: Grosse Künstaustellung) in Dresden, Germany, the works of landscape photographers Watzek, Kühn, and Henneberg were showcased.