34 Notable alumni of
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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The University of Applied Arts Vienna is 1384th in the world, 481st in Europe, and 12th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 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
- draftspersongraphic artistarchitectural draftspersonpainterdesigner
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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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- writerpaintervisual artistpoetuniversity teacher
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Oskar Kokoschka CBE 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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- furniture designerwriterarchitectart theoristessayist
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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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- film directordesignertypographergraphic designerillustrator
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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
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- singeractorradio personalitysinger-songwriterfilm actor
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Ludwig Gustav Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.
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Pipilotti Rist
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- cinematographerscreenwritervisual artistfilm directorvideo artist
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Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body. Her artwork is often categorized as feminist art.
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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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Maria Dulębianka
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- opinion journalistwriterpaintersocial activist
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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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- authorgraphic designercomics artistcaricaturistillustrator
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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 32)
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
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Thekla Kaischauri, better known by her mononymous ring name Thekla, is an Austrian professional wrestler. Hailing from Vienna's underground wrestling scene, she performs primarily in Japan for joshi puroresu (women's professional wrestling) promotions and is currently signed with World Wonder Ring Stardom, a subsidiary of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). She is among the few high-profile gaijin (foreigners) in Japanese women's wrestling.
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Thomas Spitzer
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- singergraphic designerguitaristcomposerlyricist
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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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Anna-Eva Bergman
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainter
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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
- playwrightpainterauthortrollwriter
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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
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- sculptorceramicistdesigner
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Michael Powolny was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, ceramist, designer, and teacher.
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Nikolay Diulgheroff
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- designerpainterarchitect
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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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- activistpoliticianpainterhistoriansalonnière
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Matthias Laurenz Gräff is an Austrian-Greek academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and co-founder and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal. Since 2013 Gräff has served as chairman of the worldwide Family Association Gräff-Graeff and since 2024 as the official Representative of the NEOS parliamentary party for Greece.
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Michael Breidenbruecker
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- businessperson
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Michael Breidenbrücker is an Austrian entrepreneur, artist and engineer. He is best known as a co-founder of Last.fm, a founder of RjDj and a partner at the venture firm Speedinvest. He has worked with musical artists such as Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Air and Booka Shade. In 2011, he produced Inception The App with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer, which reached number 5 in the US App Store charts. Between 2000 and 2002, he headed the masters programme in interactive digital media at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London. He studied digital art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Peter Weibel.
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Pola Stout
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- weaverinterior designertextile designer
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Josefine Pola Stout was an American designer best known for creating fine woolen fabrics. Born in Stryi, 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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- writerchildren's writerpainter
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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
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- paintersculptor
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Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art.
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Kurdwin Ayub
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Kurdwin Ayub is a Kurdish-Austrian filmmaker. Her feature film debut Sonne (Sun) was awarded the Best First Film Award at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.
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Mara Mattuschka
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- film directorsingeruniversity teachercinematographerfilm editor
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Mara Mattuschka is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
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Ulrike Müller
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- draftspersonartist
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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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Rainer Ganahl
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- artistphotographeruniversity teacherperformance artistvideo 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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Moshe Ziffer
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- artistsculptor
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Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.
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Friedrich König
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- paintergraphic designergraphic artistillustrator
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Friedrich König was an Austrian painter, illustrator and designer.
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Thomas Steiner
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- paintertelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Thomas Steiner, is an Austrian experimental film director of short films, and painter.
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Marie Müller
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- painter
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Marie Müller was an Austrian portrait painter.
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Naomi Devil
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- 2010-2015 graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- graphic designerpainter
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Naomi Devil, originally Noémi Anna Ördög, is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer.
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Michaela Konrad
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- illustratorartist
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Michaela Konrad is an Austrian illustrator and artist.
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Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1905-1911
- Occupations
- graphic artistsculptorpainter
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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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Louise Fraenkel-Hahn
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- graphic artistpainter
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Louise Fraenkel-Hahn was an Austrian painter and founding member of the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs.
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Irma Komlosy
- Occupations
- painterartist
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Maria Johanna "Irma" Komlosy was an Austrian painter known for her flower painting.
