100 Notable alumni of
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is 334th in the world, 114th 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.

  1. Egon Schiele

    Egon Schiele
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1890-1918 (aged 28)
    Occupations
    lithographersculptorprintmakerphotographerdrawer
    Biography

    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.

  2. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

    Friedensreich Hundertwasser
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1928-2000 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    painterpostage stamp designerarchitectecologistgraphic artist
    Biography

    Friedrich Stowasser, better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser ( German: [ˈfʁiːdn̩sˌʁaɪ̯x ˈʁeːgn̩ˌtaːk ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌbʊnt ˈhʊndɐtˌvasɐ]), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection.

  3. Eric Carle

    Eric Carle
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1929-2021 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    children's writerwriterillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  4. Otto Wagner

    Otto Wagner
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1841-1918 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    urban plannerprofessorarchitect
    Biography

    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.

  5. František Kupka

    František Kupka
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1871-1957 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherCzechoslovak legionarygraphic artistgraphic designer
    Biography

    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.

  6. Gottfried Helnwein

    Gottfried Helnwein
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    painterstage actorphotographernew media artistdesigner
    Biography

    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.

  7. Ivan Meštrović

    Ivan Meštrović
    Born in
    Croatia Flag Croatia
    Years
    1883-1962 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    writerteacheruniversity teacherarchitectsculptor
    Biography

    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.

  8. Josef Hoffmann

    Josef Hoffmann
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1870-1956 (aged 86)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1892-1895
    Occupations
    jewelry designeruniversity teacherartistic directorarchitectfurniture designer
    Biography

    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.

  9. Mihály Munkácsy

    Mihály Munkácsy
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1844-1900 (aged 56)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1865-1865
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

  10. Jože Plečnik

    Jože Plečnik
    Born in
    Slovenia Flag Slovenia
    Years
    1872-1957 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    teacheruniversity teacherurban plannerarchitectdesigner
    Biography

    Jože Plečnik was a Slovene 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 Slovene National and University Library building, as well as the embankments along the Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljana Central Market buildings, the Ljubljana cemetery, parks, plazas etc. His architectural imprint on Ljubljana has been compared to the impact Antoni Gaudí had on Barcelona.

  11. Ernst Fuchs

    Ernst Fuchs
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1930-2015 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    graphic artistprintmakerphilosopherarchitectpoet
    Biography

    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.

  12. Arik Brauer

    Arik Brauer
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1929-2021 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    songwritermusicianpoetarchitectdancer
    Biography

    Arik Brauer was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.

  13. Peter Fendi

    Peter Fendi
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1796-1842 (aged 46)
    Occupations
    lithographercaricaturistpaintergraphic artistillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  14. Koloman Moser

    Koloman Moser
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1868-1918 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    decoratorjewelry designerarchitectillustratorfurniture designer
    Biography

    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.

  15. Hans Makart

    Hans Makart
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1840-1884 (aged 44)
    Occupations
    painterarchitectural draftspersonteacher
    Biography

    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.

  16. Erwin Wurm

    Erwin Wurm
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    installation artistphotojournalistuniversity teacherdrawerphotographer
    Biography

    Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria; Hydra, Greece; and in New York City.

  17. Franz von Bayros

    Franz von Bayros
    Born in
    Croatia Flag Croatia
    Years
    1866-1924 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    painterprintmakerexlibristdrawerillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  18. Joseph Karl Stieler

    Joseph Karl Stieler
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1781-1858 (aged 77)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1802-1805
    Occupations
    painterportrait painter
    Biography

    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.

  19. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

    Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1736-1783 (aged 47)
    Occupations
    sculptor
    Biography

    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.

  20. Paja Jovanović

    Paja Jovanović
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1859-1957 (aged 98)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1877-1880
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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 of America. 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.

  21. Joseph Maria Olbrich

    Joseph Maria Olbrich
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1867-1908 (aged 41)
    Occupations
    designerjewelry designerarchitect
    Biography

    Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.

  22. Hans Hollein

    Hans Hollein
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1934-2014 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    designerdraweruniversity teacherarchitect
    Biography

    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.

  23. Józef Mehoffer

    Józef Mehoffer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1869-1946 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    painterteacherstained-glass artistdecoratorgraphic artist
    Biography

    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.

  24. David Steindl-Rast

    David Steindl-Rast
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1926-.. (age 98)
    Occupations
    theologianmonknon-fiction writerpsychologist
    Biography

    David Steindl-Rast OSB is an Austrian-American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer. He is committed to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality and science.

  25. Maria Lassnig

    Maria Lassnig
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1919-2014 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    painterprintmakerdrawersculptoranimator
    Biography

    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.

  26. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

    Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1793-1865 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    painterwriterteacher
    Biography

    Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was an Austrian painter and writer. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.

  27. Uroš Predić

    Uroš Predić
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1857-1953 (aged 96)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1876-1880
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  28. Richard Gerstl

    Richard Gerstl
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1883-1908 (aged 25)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  29. Johann Friedrich Overbeck

    Johann Friedrich Overbeck
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1789-1869 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    writerpainterpoetdrawerillustrator
    Biography

    Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.

  30. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

    Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1794-1872 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    university teacherdrawerpaintergraphic artistillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  31. Rudolph Schindler

    Rudolph Schindler
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1887-1953 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    architect
    Biography

    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.

  32. Maurycy Gottlieb

    Maurycy Gottlieb
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1856-1879 (aged 23)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Maurycy Gottlieb was a Polish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottllieb died at the age of 23.

  33. Moritz von Schwind

    Moritz von Schwind
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1804-1871 (aged 67)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1821
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainteruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  34. Ephraim Moses Lilien

    Ephraim Moses Lilien
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1874-1925 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artistphotographerillustratorengraver
    Biography

    Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien was an 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."

  35. Paul Kammerer

    Paul Kammerer
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1880-1926 (aged 46)
    Occupations
    zoologistuniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  36. Alfred Hrdlicka

    Alfred Hrdlicka
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1928-2009 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherprintmakerchess playersculptor
    Biography

    Alfred Hrdlicka was an Austrian sculptor, painter, and professor. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.

  37. Franz West

    Franz West
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1947-2012 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    conceptual artistperforming artistvisual artistdrawerphotographer
    Biography

    Franz West was an Austrian artist.

  38. Imre Steindl

    Imre Steindl
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1839-1902 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    architectuniversity teacher
    Biography

    Imre Ferenc Károly Steindl was a Hungarian architect.

  39. Rudolf von Alt

    Rudolf von Alt
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1812-1905 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Rudolf Ritter von Alt was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889.

  40. Gabriel von Max

    Gabriel von Max
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1840-1915 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherpedagogueteacher
    Biography

    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.

  41. Friedrich von Amerling

    Friedrich von Amerling
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1803-1887 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  42. Jan Styka

    Jan Styka
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1858-1925 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    painterillustrator
    Biography

    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).

  43. Jan Kotěra

    Jan Kotěra
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1871-1923 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    scenographerarchitectpedagoguedesigneruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Jan Kotěra was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.

  44. Grim Natwick

    Grim Natwick
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1890-1990 (aged 100)
    Occupations
    film directoranimator
    Biography

    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.

  45. Frederick John Kiesler

    Frederick John Kiesler
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1890-1965 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainterarchitectscenographerdesigner
    Biography

    Frederick Jacob Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.

  46. Josef Hlávka

    Josef Hlávka
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1831-1908 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurpoliticianmaster buildergeneral contractorarchitect
    Biography

    Josef Hlávka was a Czech architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest Czech foundation for sciences and arts.

  47. Joseph Lange

    Joseph Lange
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1751-1831 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    writercomposerconductorpainteractor
    Biography

    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.

  48. Rudolf Hausner

    Rudolf Hausner
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1914-1995 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    paintersculptorgraphic artist
    Biography

    Rudolf Hausner was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" (Gunter Engelhardt).

  49. Kiki Kogelnik

    Kiki Kogelnik
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1935-1997 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    paintersculptorgraphic artist
    Biography

    Kiki Kogelnik was a painter, sculptor and printmaker. Born in southern Austria, she studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and moved to New York City in 1962. Kogelnik is considered Austria's most important pop-related artist, despite having been known to take issue with being considered part of the pop art movement.

  50. Adolf Hölzel

    Adolf Hölzel
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1853-1934 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    university teacherart historiandrawerlithographerpainter
    Biography

    Adolf Richard Hölzel was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.

  51. Anton Ažbe

    Anton Ažbe
    Born in
    Slovenia Flag Slovenia
    Years
    1862-1905 (aged 43)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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) and Serbian painters Nadežda Petrović, Beta Vukanović, Ljubomir Ivanović, Borivoje Stevanović, Kosta Miličević, and Milan Milovanović.

  52. Oton Iveković

    Oton Iveković
    Born in
    Croatia Flag Croatia
    Years
    1869-1939 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  53. Vojtěch Hynais

    Vojtěch Hynais
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1854-1925 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    university teachergraphic artistteacherdesignergraphic designer
    Biography

    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.

  54. Christian Griepenkerl

    Christian Griepenkerl
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1839-1916 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherteacher
    Biography

    Christian Griepenkerl was a German painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

  55. Friedrich Achleitner

    Friedrich Achleitner
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1930-2019 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    university teacherarchitectural historianwriterart historianarchitect
    Biography

    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.

  56. Ludwig Deutsch

    Ludwig Deutsch
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1855-1935 (aged 80)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  57. Franz Anton Maulbertsch

    Franz Anton Maulbertsch
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1724-1796 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    painterteacherengravergraphic artistdrawer
    Biography

    Franz Anton Maulbertsch was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions.

  58. Emil Wikström

    Emil Wikström
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1864-1942 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    sculptorarchitectvisual artist
    Biography

    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.

  59. Gottfried Lindauer

    Gottfried Lindauer
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1839-1926 (aged 87)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1855-1862
    Occupations
    paintergardenervisual artist
    Biography

    Gottfried Lindauer was a Czech and New Zealand artist famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.

  60. Eduard van der Nüll

    Eduard van der Nüll
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1812-1868 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    professorarchitectteacher
    Biography

    Eduard van der Nüll was an Austrian architect, who was one of the great masters in the historicist style of Vienna's Ringstrasse.

  61. Heinrich von Ferstel

    Heinrich von Ferstel
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1828-1883 (aged 55)
    Occupations
    professorarchitectteacher
    Biography

    Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.

  62. Franz Pforr

    Franz Pforr
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1788-1812 (aged 24)
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artist
    Biography

    Franz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

  63. Max Kurzweil

    Max Kurzweil
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1867-1916 (aged 49)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1892
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artistdrawer
    Biography

    Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879.

  64. Anton Janša

    Anton Janša
    Born in
    Slovenia Flag Slovenia
    Years
    1734-1773 (aged 39)
    Occupations
    painterteacherentomologistzoologistbeekeeper
    Biography

    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.

  65. Josef Danhauser

    Josef Danhauser
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1805-1845 (aged 40)
    Occupations
    artistpainter
    Biography

    Josef Danhauser was an Austrian painter and 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.

  66. Frigyes Schulek

    Frigyes Schulek
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1841-1919 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1861-1867
    Occupations
    Idistuniversity teacherarchitect
    Biography

    Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).

  67. Joseph Keppler

    Joseph Keppler
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1838-1894 (aged 56)
    Occupations
    paintercaricaturist
    Biography

    Joseph Ferdinand Keppler was an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States.

  68. Mór Than

    Mór Than
    Born in
    Serbia Flag Serbia
    Years
    1828-1899 (aged 71)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1855
    Occupations
    painterhistory painterportrait painter
    Biography

    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.

  69. Anna Ticho

    Anna Ticho
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1894-1980 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    drawerpainter
    Biography

    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.

  70. Alfred Roller

    Alfred Roller
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1864-1935 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    painterscenographerlithographerpedagoguegraphic artist
    Biography

    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.

  71. Josef Kriehuber

    Josef Kriehuber
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1800-1876 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    portraitistpaintervisual artistgraphic artistlithographer
    Biography

    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.

  72. Teresa Präauer

    Teresa Präauer
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1979-.. (age 45)
    Occupations
    painterwriterillustrator
    Biography

    Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.

  73. László Paál

    László Paál
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1846-1879 (aged 33)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    László Paál was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter.

  74. Mihály Pollack

    Mihály Pollack
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1773-1855 (aged 82)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1792-1793
    Occupations
    architect
    Biography

    Mihály Pollack was an Austrian-born Hungarian architect, key figure of neoclassical architecture. His main work is the Hungarian National Museum (1837–46).

  75. Leopold Kupelwieser

    Leopold Kupelwieser
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1796-1862 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Leopold Kupelwieser was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.

  76. Katarina Ivanović

    Katarina Ivanović
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1811-1882 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Katarina Ivanović was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire (later Hungary in Austria-Hungary). She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.

  77. Josef Zítek

    Josef Zítek
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1832-1909 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    general contractorarchitectteacher
    Biography

    Josef von Zítek was a Czech architect best known for two Neo-Renaissance landmarks in Prague, the National Theatre and the Rudolfinum.

  78. Constantin Daniel Rosenthal

    Constantin Daniel Rosenthal
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1820-1851 (aged 31)
    Occupations
    paintersculptorrevolutionary
    Biography

    Constantin Daniel Rosenthal was a Romanian painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.

  79. Soshana Afroyim

    Soshana Afroyim
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1927-2015 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  80. Rihard Jakopič

    Rihard Jakopič
    Born in
    Slovenia Flag Slovenia
    Years
    1869-1943 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    art theoristpainter
    Biography

    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.

  81. Josef Mocker

    Josef Mocker
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1835-1899 (aged 64)
    Occupations
    teachergeneral contractorrestorerarchitectdesigner
    Biography

    Josef Mocker was a Bohemian architect and restorer who worked in a purist Gothic Revival style.

  82. Ignaz Günther

    Ignaz Günther
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1725-1775 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    sculptorwood carver
    Biography

    Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian Rococo tradition.

  83. Isidor Kaufmann

    Isidor Kaufmann
    Born in
    Romania Flag Romania
    Years
    1853-1921 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  84. Thomas Ender

    Thomas Ender
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1793-1875 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painterlandscape painterdrawerengraver
    Biography

    Thomas Ender was an Austrian landscape painter and watercolorist.

  85. Franciszek Żmurko

    Franciszek Żmurko
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1859-1910 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    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.

  86. Carl Otto Czeschka

    Carl Otto Czeschka
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1878-1960 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainterillustratorteacher
    Biography

    Carl Otto Czeschka was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte.

  87. Helmut Ditsch

    Helmut Ditsch
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Helmut Ditsch is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water.

  88. Raphael Kirchner

    Raphael Kirchner
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1875-1917 (aged 42)
    Occupations
    visual artistlithographercaricaturistdrawerportraitist
    Biography

    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.

  89. Anton Romako

    Anton Romako
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1832-1889 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Anton Romako was an Austrian painter.

  90. Anastas Jovanović

    Anastas Jovanović
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1817-1899 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painterphotographerlithographer
    Biography

    Anastas Jovanović was a Serbian photographer and author.

  91. Max Oppenheimer

    Max Oppenheimer
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1885-1954 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    painterdesignergraphic artist
    Biography

    Max Oppenheimer, later known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

  92. Olena Kulchytska

    Olena Kulchytska
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1877-1967 (aged 90)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1907
    Occupations
    graphic artistart educatorpaintervisual artist
    Biography

    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.

  93. Anton Lehmden

    Anton Lehmden
    Born in
    Slovakia Flag Slovakia
    Years
    1929-2018 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    graphic artistpainteruniversity teacherillustrator
    Biography

    Anton Lehmden was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

  94. Alexander von Wagner

    Alexander von Wagner
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1838-1919 (aged 81)
    Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1856
    Occupations
    painteruniversity teacherteacher
    Biography

    Alexander originally Sándor von Wagner was a Hungarian painter.

  95. Anton von Maron

    Anton von Maron
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1733-1808 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    painterportraitistteacher
    Biography

    Anton von Maron was an Austrian painter who specialized in portraits. Most of his career was spent in Rome.

  96. Johann Peter Krafft

    Johann Peter Krafft
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1780-1856 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Johann Peter Krafft was a German-born Austrian painter who specialized in portraits, historical works, and genre scenes.

  97. Leopold Carl Müller

    Leopold Carl Müller
    Born in
    Germany Flag Germany
    Years
    1834-1892 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    painterdrawerillustratorteacher
    Biography

    Leopold Carl Müller was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works.

  98. Karel Pařík

    Karel Pařík
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1857-1942 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    architect
    Biography

    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.

  99. Gregorio Sciltian

    Gregorio Sciltian
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1900-1985 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Gregorio Sciltian was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist. Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions.

  100. Hans Larwin

    Hans Larwin
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1873-1938 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    university teacherpainter
    Biography

    Hans Larwin was a Viennese genre painter and academician.