32 Notable alumni of
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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The University of Applied Arts Vienna is 1386th in the world, 478th in Europe, and 12th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from the University of Applied 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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Gustav Klimt
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1876-1883
- Occupations
- painterarchitectural draftspersongraphic artistdrawerdesigner
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.
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Oskar Kokoschka
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- poetplaywrightillustratorwriteruniversity teacher
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Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
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Adolf Loos
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- writerarchitectdesignerteacherart theorist
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
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Stefan Sagmeister
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- graphic designertypographerdesignerfilm directorillustrator
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Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Pat Metheny. From 2011 until 2019 he partnered with Jessica Walsh under the name Sagmeister & Walsh Inc.
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Ludwig Hirsch
- Occupations
- songwritersingerradio personalityactorfilm actor
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Ludwig Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.
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Marc Elsberg
- Occupations
- designerwriter
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Marc Elsberg is a bestselling Austrian author. His works have been published by Blanvalet Verlag of the Penguin Random House publishing group since 2012. They have been translated into numerous languages, sold several million copies worldwide, and made into a series and a film.
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Erwin Wurm
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- installation artistphotojournalistuniversity teacherdrawerphotographer
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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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Maria Dulębianka
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- social activistpainterwriteropinion journalist
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Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.
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Ernst Klimt
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- painter
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Ernst Klimt was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter. He was a younger brother of the better-known artist Gustav Klimt.
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Hannes Hegen
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- caricaturistcomics artistgraphic designerauthorillustrator
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Hannes Hegen was a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.
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Thekla
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Thekla Kaischauri, better known by her ring name Thekla, is an Austrian professional wrestler. She currently works for World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is a former member of Donna Del Mondo.
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Anna-Eva Bergman
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artist
- Biography
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Anna-Eva Bergman was a Norwegian abstract expressionist artist. She was a modernist artist and part of the School of Paris. Her abstract paintings were often inspired by nature and based on abstracted motifs.
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Julya Rabinowich
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1998-2000
- Occupations
- translatorwritertrollauthorpainter
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Julya Rabinowich (Russian: Юля Борисовна Рабинович; born 1970 in Leningrad, (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is an Austrian author, playwright, painter and translator. In 1977 her family emigrated to Vienna, a move in which she describes herself as having been “uprooted and re-potted.”
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Michael Powolny
- Occupations
- sculptorceramicist
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Michael Powolny was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, ceramist, designer, and teacher.
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Thomas Spitzer
- Occupations
- composerguitaristgraphic designersingersongwriter
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Thomas Spitzer is an Austrian lyricist, composer, singer, guitarist and graphic designer. He is a founding member the band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV), whose lyrics, album artwork and illustrations come almost exclusively from him.
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Nikolay Diulgheroff
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- painterdesignerarchitect
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Nikolay Diulgheroff was a Bulgarian artist, designer and architect who was active in Italy as a prominent representative of interwar Italian Futurism (il secondo Futurismo).
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Matthias Laurenz Gräff
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- historianpainterpoliticianactivistsalonnière
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Matthias Laurenz Gräff is an Austrian academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and co-founder and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal. Since 2013 he acted as chairman of the worldwide Family Association Gräff-Graeff.
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Pola Stout
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- interior designerweavertextile designer
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Josefine Pola Stout was an American designer best known for creating fine woolen fabrics. Born in Stryj, she studied with Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Vienna, and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before she immigrated to the United States in 1925 with her first husband, architect and designer Wolfgang Hoffmann. Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann became a prominent interior design team that contributed to the development of American modernism in the early 20th century. They dissolved their successful partnership in 1932, when she married popular mystery author Rex Stout. Pola Stout was an influential textile designer after her second marriage. She was executor of Rex Stout's literary estate after her husband's death in 1975.
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Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
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- painterchildren's writerwriter
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Bettina Ehrlich, née Bauer, 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.
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Martina Schettina
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
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Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art.
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Mara Mattuschka
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- screenwriteractorfilm producerfilm editorcinematographer
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Mara Mattuschka is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
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Rainer Ganahl
- Occupations
- performance artistuniversity teacherphotographerartistvideo artist
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Rainer Ganahl is an Austrian-American conceptual artist who lives and works in New York. His work has been widely exhibited, including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; the Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany; and the 48th Venice Biennale. He is the subject and author of several published catalogues, among them, Reading Karl Marx (London: Book Works, 2001), Ortsprache—Local Language (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 1998), and Rainer Ganahl: Educational Complex (Vienna: Generali Foundation, 1997).
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Ulrike Müller
- Occupations
- artistdrawer
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Ulrike Müller is a contemporary visual artist. Müller is a member of the New York-based feminist genderqueer group LTTR as well as an editor of its eponymous journal. She also represented Austria at the Cairo Biennale in 2011. She is currently a professor and co-chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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Moshe Ziffer
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- sculptorartist
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Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.
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Friedrich König
- Occupations
- graphic artistgraphic designerpainterillustrator
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Friedrich König was an Austrian painter, illustrator and designer.
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Thomas Steiner
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- film directortelevision actorpainteractor
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Thomas Steiner, is an Austrian experimental film director of short films, and painter.
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Marie Müller
- Occupations
- painter
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Marie Müller was an Austrian portrait painter.
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Michaela Konrad
- Occupations
- artistillustrator
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Michaela Konrad is an Austrian illustrator and artist.
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Naomi Devil
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- 2010-2015 graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- paintergraphic designer
- Biography
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Naomi Devil, originally Noémi Anna Ördög, is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer.
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Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1905-1911
- Occupations
- paintersculptorgraphic artist
- Biography
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Josephine Therese Weixlgärtner-Neutra (born 19 January 1886 in Vienna – died 1981 in Gothenburg) was an Austrian-Swedish artist, who concentrated on graphic design, painting, sculpture and enamelwork.
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Irma Komlosy
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- artistpainter
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Maria Johanna "Irma" Komlosy was an Austrian painter known for her flower painting.
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Louise Fraenkel-Hahn
- Occupations
- paintergraphic artist
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Louise Fraenkel-Hahn was an Austrian painter and founding member of the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs.
