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List Of Austrian Artists And Architects
This is a list of notable Austrian artists and architects. __NOTOC__ A * Josef Abel (1768–1818), painter * Erika Abels d'Albert (1896–1975), painter and graphic designer * Raimund Abraham (1933–2010), architect * Soshana Afroyim (1927–2015), painter * Joseph Matthäus Aigner (1818–1886), painter * Oz Almog (born 1956), painter and writer * Franz Alt (1821–1914), artist, watercolorist * Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905), painter * Friedrich von Amerling (1803–1887), painter * Christian Attersee (born 1940), pop-art artist B * Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), botanical illustrator * Herbert Bayer (1900–1985), graphic designer, typographer, photographer, painter, architect * Franz von Bayros (1866–1924), erotic artist * Maria Bach (1896–1978), painter * Antonietta Brandeis(1849–1910), painter * Roswitha Bitterlich (1920–2015), painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and writer * Arik Brauer (1929–2021), painter; born in Vienna * Günter Brus (1938-2024), perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roswitha Bitterlich
Roswitha Bitterlich, also known by her married names Roswitha Bitterlich-Brink and Roswitha Wingen-Bitterlich, (24 April 1920 – 10 December 2015, Pôrto Alegre) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and writer. Life and career Roswitha Bitterlich was born in Bregenz, Austria on 4 April 1920. Her mother was the Austrian Catholic mystic Gabriele Bitterlich who founded the Opus Sanctorum Angelorum, a movement of the Catholic Church that promotes devotion to angels, especially guardian angels. Her father was the Austrian lawyer and state government secretary Hans Bitterlich, and her brother was the Austrian priest and writer Hansjörg Bitterlich. In 1921 she moved with her family to Šluknov, and after seven years there to Innsbruck in 1928. She was educated at schools in that city, and began her career as an artist while a child in Inssbruck. A prodigy, Bitterlich had her first professional exhibition in 1932 and in 1933 a book of reproductions of her work was publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Elssler
Fanny Elssler (born Franziska Elßler; 23 June 181027 November 1884) was an Austrian ''ballerina'' of the Romantic Period. Life and career She was born in Gumpendorf, a neighborhood of Vienna. Her father Johann Florian Elssler was a second generation employee of Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy. Both Johann and his brother Josef were employed as copyists to the Prince's Kapellmeister, Joseph Haydn. Johann was to eventually become valet to Haydn and attended Haydn up to and was present at Haydn's death. From her earliest years she was trained for the ballet, and made her appearance at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna before she was 7. She almost invariably danced with her sister Therese, who was two years her senior; the sisters studied dancing with Jean-Pierre Aumer and Friedrich Horschelt beginning when Elssler was 9 years old, also traveling to Naples, Italy, to study with Gaetano Gioja. After some years' experience together in Vienna, the sisters went in 1827 to Naple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Ehrlich
Bettina Ehrlich, ''née'' Bauer, (10 March 1903 – 10 October 1985) was an Austrian painter and illustrator of children's books, many of which she also wrote. She lived briefly in Berlin and Paris, and from 1938 in England. Family and education Bettina Bauer was born in Vienna, Austria, on 10 March 1903. She studied for three years at the Kunstgewerbeschule, or school of arts and crafts, of Vienna (now the University of Applied Arts). She lived in Berlin for two years and in Paris for one, and showed work in each city. On 27 November 1930 she married the sculptor Georg Ehrlich; like her, he was Jewish. After the Nazi Anschluss in March 1938 it was too dangerous for them to be in Austria. Ehrlich was in England at the time, and stayed there; Bettina joined him in July 1938, bringing many of his works. Work Bettina Ehrlich worked in many media, including watercolour, oils and various printing techniques (etching, lino-cutting, lithography and woodcut). At the Expositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Egger-Lienz
Albin Egger-Lienz (29 January 1868 – 4 November 1926) was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings. Career He was born in Dölsach-Stribach near Lienz, in what was the county of Tyrol. He was the natural son of Maria Trojer, a peasant girl, and Georg Egger, a church painter.Lachnit 2003. As an adult he used his father's surname combined with the name of his birthplace. He had his first artistic training under his father, and subsequently studied at the Academy in Munich where he was influenced by Franz Defregger and French painter Jean-François Millet. From 1893 to 1899 he worked in Munich,Clegg 2008. where he joined the local artistic association. He exhibited from the mid-1890s. His early works depicted scenes of peasant life and historical scenes from the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809, such as ''Ave Maria after the Battle on the Bergisel'' (1893–1896; Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck). In 1899 he married Laura Möllwald (with whom he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Eckl
Joachim Eckl (born 11 April 1962 in Haslach an der Mühl); is an Austrian artist, Social engineering (political science), social engineer, patron, project leader, producer in the cultural and art world as well as the chairman of the cultural association heim.art. He is mainly known for his large-scale projects in connection with water and rivers in particular. His work was awarded the Green Prize of the Upper Austria and the Ford Environment Prize of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Forestry, Environment and Water Resources. He is married and has a daughter. Early life Joachim Eckl grew up on the river Große Mühl. His ancestors were all millers; his great-grandfather erected in 1902 the first Hydroelectricity, hydroelectric power plant on the Große Mühl river, which still stands and operates to this day. Joachim Eckl's views on the art and culture are therefore strongly influenced by the close connection of the humanity with the mysticism of the water. He finalized his psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Duldig
Karl (Karol) Duldig (29 December 1902 – 11 August 1986) was a Jewish sculptor. Born in Poland, he and his family fled Vienna in 1938 following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, eventually settling in Australia. As a sculptor, he was instrumental in introducing the Modernist style to an Australian audience, won the 1956 Victorian Sculptor of the Year Award, and had an annual lecture established in his name by the National Gallery of Victoria. Biography Early years Duldig was born in Przemyśl, Galicia, Poland (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). His parents were Marcus Duldig and Eidla (Eydl) Nebenzahl. In 1914 his family moved to Vienna. He studied sculpture under Anton Hanak at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1921 until 1925. He then studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1925 until 1929. From 1930 to 1933 he undertook Masters studies with Professor Josef Müller at the Academy. In 1923 he was Austrian national champion in table tennis. He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerti Deutsch
Gertrude Helene "Gerti" Deutsch (1908–1979), also known as Gertrude Hopkinson, was an Austrian-born British photographer. She is best known for her work for the magazine ''Picture Post'', from 1938 until 1950. Early life and education Deutsch was an only child, born to Jewish parents. Her mother was from Olomouc, Moravia and her father was from Bielsko-Biala, Eastern Silesia. She grew up in an apartment behind the Karlskirche in the centre of Vienna. Home-educated by a French governess as a young child and then at school in Vienna, she briefly attended an English boarding school at the age of sixteen, before entering the Wiener Musikakademie. On graduation, her goal was a career as a concert pianist but, owing to neuritis in her right arm, her recitals were not to go far beyond entertaining her parents' social gatherings. From 1933 to 1934, she retrained as a photographer at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. Photography career After periods spent in Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günther Domenig
Günther Domenig (6 July 1934 – 15 June 2012) was an Austrian architect. Domenig was born in Klagenfurt, and studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology (1953–1959). After working as an architectural assistant, he set up in practice with Eilfried Huth (1963–1973), producing buildings in a brutalist vein. They designed buildings with exposed concrete that are among the outstanding examples of brutalism in Austria. Both the ''Pedagogical Academy Graz'' and the ''Oberwart Parish Church'' were commissioned by the Catholic Church. Another much-noticed design from this phase is the visionary and unbuildable ''Stadt Ragnitz'' project. Here, Huth and Domenig designed a megastructure that is similar to the projects of the so-called Metabolists and Archigram's projects. At the beginning of the 1970s, Huth and Domenig increasingly designed pop-art-architecture. Their temporary buildings for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich were colorful and had the rounded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten
Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten (born 1969) is a contemporary Austrian visual artist. Biography Czerwenka-Wenkstetten was educated in London and Vienna, and is noted for the influence of her natural sciences background on her art, which explores (according to her artist's statement) "inner, exterior, and in-between spaces and limits, boundaries, as well as different structures, grown or man-made, which mirror the patriarchal approaches we have slowly grown out of over the past century." Her art incorporates multiple textures and materials, including mirrors, glass, metalware and silicone, and analog and digital photographs. She has organized art projects in Austria, Germany, Poland, India, Nigeria, UK, United States, Iceland and Palestine. Czerwenka-Wenkstetten is a member oEmergence of Projects (eop) a transdisciplinary network of artists, a founding member of the "Fishpool Aquarium for Art and Social Affairs" in Vienna, and is listed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Charlemont
Eduard Charlemont (2 August 1848 – 7 February 1906) was an Austrian painter. Early life Eduard Charlemont was born in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in painting miniature portraits. His younger brother Hugo Charlemont (1850–1939) was an equally famous impressionist painter. At the age of fifteen Charlemont exhibited his works for the first time at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied fine arts. At the same age Eduard Charlemont was also hired by a girls' school to teach drawing. Career After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Charlemont traveled to many countries in central Europe and finally settled in Paris, where he lived for the next thirty years. In Paris, several times he won the first prize of the Paris Salon, an annual exhibition held by the French Academy of Fine Arts (). The most famous work of Charlemont is ''The Guardian of the Seraglio'', widely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Cella
Bernhard Cella (born 1969 in Salzburg) is an Austrian artist and curator. Academic career Cella studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Erich Wonder, the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz with Herbert Lachmayer and the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Cella was a researcher in the Center of Art and Knowledge Transfer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and led the project 'NO ISBN' which investigated Austrian art publications with and without ISBN. In 2015 he left the university to continue his research with the project 'Behind No-ISBN' at the independent Research Institute for Arts and Technology. Work Cella is an advocate of artist books as a medium and has curated numerous exhibitions with and about artist books. He has stated that a good art book can replace a visit to a museum, because it offers many possibilities for discourse and experimentation. With projects like Collecting Books, Salon für Kunstbuch or Kunstbuch*Kompass, he chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
