100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is 318th in the world, 110th in Europe, and 3rd in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Egon Schiele
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- draftspersonphotographerprintmakersculptorlithographer
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Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter of the early 20th century, was a mentor to Schiele.
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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- ecologistenvironmentalistdraftspersonsculptorpainter
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Friedrich Stowasser, better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser ( German: [ˈfʁiːdn̩sʁaɪx ˈʁeːɡn̩taːk ˈdʊŋkl̩bʊnt ˈhʊndɐtˌvasɐ]), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection. He emigrated to the Far North of New Zealand in the 1970s, where he lived and worked for most of the rest of his life.
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Eric Carle
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- writerchildren's writerillustrator
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Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
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Otto Wagner
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- professorarchitectural draftspersonuniversity teacherarchitecturban planner
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Otto Koloman Wagner was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. His early works were inspired by classical architecture. By mid-1890s, he had already designed several buildings in what became known as the Vienna Secession style. Beginning in 1898, with his designs of Vienna Metro stations, his style became floral and Art Nouveau, with decoration by Koloman Moser. His later works, 1906 until his death in 1918, had geometric forms and minimal ornament, clearly expressing their function. They are considered predecessors to modern architecture.
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František Kupka
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- draftspersongraphic designergraphic artistCzechoslovak legionaryuniversity teacher
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František Kupka, also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.
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Gottfried Helnwein
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- new media artistphotographerstage actorpainterdesigner
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Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media.
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Ivan Meštrović
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- university teacherteacherwritersculptorarchitect
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Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's Stone Workshop in Split and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was formed under the influence of the Secession. He traveled throughout Europe and studied the works of ancient and Renaissance masters, especially Michelangelo, and French sculptors Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol. He was the initiator of the national-romantic group Medulić (he advocated the creation of art of national features inspired by the heroic folk songs). During the First World War, he lived in emigration. After the war, he returned to Croatia and began a long and fruitful period of sculpture and pedagogical work. In 1942 he emigrated to Italy, in 1943 to Switzerland and in 1947 to the United States. He was a professor of sculpture at the Syracuse University and from 1955 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
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Josef Hoffmann
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1892-1895
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- furniture designerarchitectartistic directoruniversity teacherjewelry designer
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Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian-Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet Palace, in Brussels, (1905–1911) a pioneering work of Modern Architecture, Art Deco and peak of Vienna Secession architecture.
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Mihály Munkácsy
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1865-1865
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- painter
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Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
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Jože Plečnik
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- university teacherteacherdesignerarchitecturban planner
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Jože Plečnik was a Slovenian architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, most notably by designing the iconic Triple Bridge and the Slovenian National and University Library building, as well as the embankments along the Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljana Central Market buildings, the Ljubljana cemetery, parks, plazas. His architectural imprint on Ljubljana has been compared to the impact Antoni Gaudí had on Barcelona.
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Ernst Fuchs
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- composerphilosophersculptorscenographerdesigner
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Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In 1972, he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which he restored and transformed. The villa was inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in 1988.
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Peter Fendi
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- graphic artistpaintercaricaturistlithographerart collector
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Peter Fendi was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period.
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Arik Brauer
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- graphic artistsingerdancerarchitectpoet
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Arik Brauer was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.
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Koloman Moser
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- draftspersongraphic artistpostage stamp designerfurniture designerillustrator
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Koloman Moser was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.
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Erwin Wurm
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- photographerdraftspersonuniversity teacherphotojournalistinstallation artist
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Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria; Hydra, Greece; and in New York City.
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Hans Makart
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- painterteacherarchitectural draftsperson
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Hans Makart was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and beyond.
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Joseph Karl Stieler
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1802-1805
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- portrait painterpainter
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Joseph Karl Stieler was a German painter. From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter for the Bavarian kings. He is known for his Neoclassical portraits, especially for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, as well as his emblematic portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which has become one of his most famous works.
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Paja Jovanović
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1877-1880
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- painter
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Pavle "Paja" Jovanović was a Serbian realist painter who painted more than 1,100 works including: The Wounded Montenegrin (1882), Decorating of the Bride (1886), The Takovo Uprising (1894), Migration of the Serbs (1896) and The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex (1900). As one of the best European painters of oriental scenes, Paja at the end of the 19th century turned to painting historical events of Serbian history. Paja was also the premier portraitist of Europe after 1905. He painted the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria 15 times, he painted royalty, major industrialists, scientists, bankers, oil barons and monopolists, including certain heirs to the Standard Oil fortune in the United States. He was a very sought-after portraitist world-wide, which made him incredibly wealthy in his lifetime. Many European and international museums carry his works, signed under various names including: Paul Joanowitch in the National Gallery of Victoria and also two portraits in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Paul Joanowits, Paul Ivanovitch, Paul Joanovitch, Paul Joanovitsch, P. Joanowitsch and others.
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Franz von Bayros
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- draftspersonexlibristprintmakerpainterillustrator
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Franz von Bayros was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter, best known for his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table portfolio. He belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often utilizing erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery.
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
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- sculptor
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.
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Joseph Maria Olbrich
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- jewelry designerdesignerarchitect
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Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.
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Józef Mehoffer
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- graphic artistdecoratorstained-glass artistteacherpainter
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Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.
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Maria Lassnig
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- animatorfilm directorpainterdraftspersonprintmaker
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Maria Lassnig was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005. Lassnig lived and taught in Vienna from 1980 until her death.
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Hans Hollein
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- university teacherdraftspersondesignerarchitect
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Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.
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David Steindl-Rast
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- monktheologianpsychologistnon-fiction writer
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Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., is an American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer. He is committed to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality and science.
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
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- writerpainterteacher
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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was an Austrian painter and writer. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.
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Uroš Predić
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1876-1880
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- painter
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Uroš Predić was a Serbian Realist painter. Along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić, he is considered the most important Serbian painter of realism. Predić is best remembered for his early works, in which he depicted the "real" life of ordinary people. Later, he made a great contribution in church painting and portraits. Predić's opus includes a total of 1658 works.
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Richard Gerstl
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- painter
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Richard Gerstl was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Arnold Schoenberg, which led to his suicide.
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
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- graphic artistpainterdraftspersonuniversity teachervisual artist
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious art. He is remembered for his extensive Picture Bible, and his designs for stained glass windows in cathedrals.
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Johann Friedrich Overbeck
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- painterpoetdraftspersonwriterartist
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Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
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Rudolph Schindler
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- architect
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Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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- painter
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Maurycy Gottlieb was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.
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Moritz von Schwind
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1821
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- draftspersongraphic artistuniversity teacherpainterillustrator
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Moritz von Schwind was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna. Schwind's genius was lyrical—he drew inspiration from chivalry, folklore, and the songs of the people. Schwind died in Pöcking in Bavaria, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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- photographergraphic artistpainterpublisherengraver
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Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien was a Polish-Jewish Art Nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes and his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."
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Paul Kammerer
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- university teacherzoologist
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Paul Kammerer was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated Lamarckism, the theory that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics acquired in their lifetime, meaning variation would be directed towards creating adaptations.
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Alfred Hrdlicka
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- chess playerprintmakeruniversity teacherpaintersculptor
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Alfred Hrdlicka was an Austrian sculptor, painter, and professor. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.
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Imre Steindl
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- university teacherrestorerarchitect
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Imre Ferenc Károly Steindl was a Hungarian architect.
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Franz West
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- photographerdraftspersonvisual artistperforming artistconceptual artist
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Franz West was an Austrian artist.
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Rudolf von Alt
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- painterdraftsperson
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Rudolf Ritter von Alt was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he acquired the title of Ritter after being knighted in 1889.
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Gabriel von Max
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- university teacherpainterteacherpedagogue
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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts.
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Friedrich von Amerling
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- painter
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Friedrich von Amerling was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef. He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835 and 1880. With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, he is one of the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century.
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Jan Styka
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- illustratorpainter
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Jan Styka was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas. He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title L'ame de la Pologne (The Soul of Poland).
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Grim Natwick
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- animatorfilm director
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Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, animator, and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studios' most popular character, Betty Boop.
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Jan Kotěra
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- graphic artistpainterurban plannerteacheruniversity teacher
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Jan Kotěra was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.
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Frederick John Kiesler
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- paintersculptordesignerscenographerarchitect
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Frederick Jacob Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.
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Josef Hlávka
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- general contractormaster builderpoliticianentrepreneurarchitect
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Josef Hlávka was a Czech architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest Czech foundation for sciences and arts.
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Joseph Lange
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- stage actoractorpainterconductorcomposer
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Joseph Lange was an actor and amateur painter of the 18th century. Through his marriage to Aloysia Weber, he was the brother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Kiki Kogelnik
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- graphic artistsculptorpainter
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Kiki Kogelnik was an Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker. She lived in New York City for many years. Kogelnik is considered an important pop artist, despite having been known to take issue with being considered part of the pop art movement.
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Christian Griepenkerl
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- university teacherpainterteacher
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Christian Griepenkerl was a German painter and professor, best known for rejecting Adolf Hitler's application to train at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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Anton Ažbe
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- painterart educator
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Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European students. Ažbe trained the "big four" Slovenian impressionists (Rihard Jakopič, Ivan Grohar, Matej Sternen, Matija Jama), a whole generation of Russian painters (Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Igor Grabar, Wassily Kandinsky, Dmitry Kardovsky and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, to name a few), Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović or a Czech painter Ludvik Kuba.
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Adolf Hölzel
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- painterlithographerdraftspersonart historianuniversity teacher
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Adolf Richard Hölzel was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.
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Oton Iveković
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- painter
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Oton Iveković was a Croatian painter. A graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Iveković later taught at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. He largely concerned himself with historical topics as well as some religious themes. Many of his paintings remain the chief representations of Croatian history.
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Vojtěch Hynais
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- graphic designerdesignerteachergraphic artistuniversity teacher
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Vojtěch Adalbert Hynais was a Czech painter, designer and graphics artist. He designed the curtain of the Prague National Theatre, decorated a number of buildings in Prague and Vienna, and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession. He was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1924.
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch
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- draftspersongraphic artistcopper engraverteacherpainter
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions.
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Ludwig Deutsch
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- painter
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Ludwig Deutsch was a French painter of Austrian origin, who settled in Paris and became a noted Orientalist artist. Having studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1872 to 1875, he moved to Paris in 1878, where he became associated with other Orientalist painters. Most of his works were painted in his studio in Paris, but he had visited Egypt on several journeys from 1885 to 1898. In 1919, he became a French citizen and started to write his name as Louis Deutsch.
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Friedrich Achleitner
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- art historianwriterarchitectural historianuniversity teacherart critic
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Friedrich Achleitner was an Austrian poet and architecture critic. As a member of the Wiener Gruppe, he wrote concrete poems and experimental literature. His magnum opus is a multi-volume documentation of 20th-century Austrian architecture. Written over several decades, Achleitner made a personal visit to each building described. He was a professor of the history and theory of architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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Emil Wikström
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- sculptorvisual artistarchitect
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Emil Wikström was a Finnish sculptor. Among his best known works are the Lyhdynkantajat ("Lantern Carriers") sculptures on the front of the Helsinki Central railway station and the monuments to Elias Lönnrot and Johan Vilhelm Snellman.
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Gottfried Lindauer
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1855-1862
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- paintervisual artistgardener
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Gottfried Lindauer was a Czech and New Zealand painter. He was famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.
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Heinrich von Ferstel
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- professorteacherarchitect
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Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.
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Max Kurzweil
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1892
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- graphic artistpainterdraftsperson
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Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879.
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Eduard van der Nüll
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- professorteacherarchitect
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Eduard van der Nüll was an Austrian architect, who was one of the great masters in the historicist style of Vienna's Ringstrasse.
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Anton Janša
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- entomologistteacherpainterbeekeeperzoologist
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Anton Janša was a Carniolan apiarist and painter. Janša is known as a pioneer of modern apiculture and a great expert in the field. He was educated as a painter, but was employed as a teacher of apiculture at the Habsburg court in Vienna.
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Franz Pforr
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- graphic artistpainter
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Franz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.
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Joseph Keppler
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- caricaturistpainter
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Joseph Ferdinand Keppler was an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States.
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Mór Than
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1855
- Occupations
- history painterpainterportrait painter
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Mór Than was a Hungarian painter. He painted in the Realist school and worked with several high-profile Hungarian and Austrian painters of his time. He travelled around Italy, in France and his native Hungary. Later in life, he worked for several museums and galleries in Hungary.
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Josef Danhauser
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- painterartist
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Josef Franz Danhauser was a painter from the Austrian Empire. He was one of the prominent artists of Biedermeier period, along with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, and others. Danhauser's works, which went largely unappreciated in his time, dealt with moralising subjects and had a clear influence of William Hogarth.
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Frigyes Schulek
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1861-1867
- Occupations
- university teacherIdistarchitect
- Biography
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Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).
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Josef Kriehuber
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- portraitistpainterlithographer
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Josef Kriehuber was an Austrian lithographer and painter, notable for the high quality of his lithographic portraits. A prolific yet meticulous artist, he made numerous portraits for nobility, well-known personalities, and government officials. Josef Kriehuber left more than 3000 lithographs, with portraits of many people including some of the most illustrious figures of mid-19th century Central Europe.
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Alfred Roller
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- pedagoguelithographerscenographerpainterfashion figure artist
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Alfred Roller was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer. His wife was Mileva Roller and they were members of the Viennese Secession movement.
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Teresa Präauer
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- writerpainterillustrator
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Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.
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Anna Ticho
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- painterdraftsperson
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Anna Ticho was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a café.
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Mihály Pollack
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1792-1793
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Mihály Pollack was an Austrian-born Hungarian architect, key figure of neoclassical architecture. His main work is the Hungarian National Museum (1837–46).
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László Paál
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- painter
- Biography
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László Paál was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter.
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Leopold Kupelwieser
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- painter
- Biography
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Leopold Kupelwieser was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.
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Katarina Ivanović
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- painter
- Biography
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Katarina Ivanović was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.
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Max Oppenheimer
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- graphic artistdesignerpainter
- Biography
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Max Oppenheimer, later known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.
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Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
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- sculptorpainterrevolutionary
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Constantin Daniel Rosenthal was an ethnically Jewish painter and sculptor of Austrian birth and a Romanian 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.
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Josef Zítek
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- general contractorteacherarchitect
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Josef von Zítek was a Czech architect best known for two Neo-Renaissance landmarks in Prague, the National Theatre and the Rudolfinum.
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Rihard Jakopič
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- painterart theorist
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Rihard Jakopič was a Slovene painter. He was the leading Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician. Together with Matej Sternen, Matija Jama and Ivan Grohar, he is considered the pioneer of Slovene Impressionist painting.
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Josef Mocker
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- restorergeneral contractorteacherdesignerarchitect
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Josef Mocker was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist Gothic Revival style.
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Soshana Afroyim
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- painter
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Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.
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Ignaz Günther
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- wood carversculptor
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Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian Rococo tradition.
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Isidor Kaufmann
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- painter
- Biography
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Isidor Kaufmann was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life. The artist's life and work was featured by the Jewish Museum Vienna 1995 in a show curated by Tobias G. Natter.
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Franciszek Żmurko
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- painter
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Franciszek Żmurko was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor Jan Matejko. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna Academy, but left soon thereafter to study under Alexander von Wagner in Munich. Żmurko returned to Kraków in 1880 and then moved to Warsaw in 1882, where he remained until his death in 1910.
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Thomas Ender
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- draftspersonlandscape painterpainterprintmaker
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Thomas Ender was an Austrian landscape painter and watercolorist.
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Carl Otto Czeschka
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- paintergraphic artistteacherillustrator
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Carl Otto Czeschka was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte.
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Raphael Kirchner
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- portraitistdraftspersoncaricaturistlithographervisual artist
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Raphael Kirchner was an Austrian artist, principally a portrait painter and illustrator best known for Art Nouveau and early pin-up work, especially in picture postcard format. His work served as an early inspiration to Peruvian painter Alberto Vargas, who had a career in the United States for the film and men's magazine industry.
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Helmut Ditsch
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- painter
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Helmut Ditsch is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water.
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Anastas Jovanović
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- photographerpainterlithographer
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Anastas Jovanović was a Serbian photographer and author of Bulgarian origin.
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Anton Romako
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- painter
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Anton Romako was an Austrian painter.
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Olena Kulchytska
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1907
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- visual artistpainterart educatorgraphic artist
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Olena Lvivna Kulchytska was a Ukrainian painter-illustrator and graphic artist, rug decorator, pedagogue, civil activist and politician. A pioneer of Ukrainian children book illustration in Western Ukraine.
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Hans Larwin
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- painteruniversity teacher
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Hans Larwin was a Viennese genre painter and academician.
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Alexander von Wagner
- Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1856
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- university teacherpainterteacher
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Alexander originally Sándor von Wagner was a Hungarian painter.
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Anton Lehmden
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- university teacherpaintergraphic artistillustrator
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Anton Lehmden was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.
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Anton von Maron
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- portraitistpainterteacher
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Anton von Maron was an Austrian painter who specialized in portraits.
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Amoako Boafo
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- visual artistpainter
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Thomas Amoako Boafo, known as Amoako Boafo, is a Ghanaian painter and visual artist.
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Karel Pařík
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- architect
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Karel Pařík was a Czech-born architect in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Pařík spent most of his life in Sarajevo where he designed over seventy major buildings, which are today classified among the most beautiful in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For Bosnians, he is also known as Karlo Paržik and is considered as "The builder of Sarajevo". He died working on his last project, Sarajevo City Hall, which later became one of the symbols of the city. "Czech by birth, Sarajevan by choice" stands encrypted on his gravestone in Sarajevo.
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Johann Peter Krafft
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- painter
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Johann Peter Krafft was a German-born Austrian painter who specialized in portraits, historical works, and genre scenes.
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Anton Kolig
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- university teacherteacherpainterart educatordesigner
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Anton Kolig was an Austrian expressionist painter.
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Leopold Carl Müller
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- draftspersonpainterteacherillustrator
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Leopold Carl Müller was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works.
