32 Notable alumni of
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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The University of Applied Arts Vienna is 1368th in the world, 473rd 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
- draftspersonarchitectural draftspersongraphic artistpainterexlibrist
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Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known 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. He is best known for The Kiss and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. 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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- university teacherillustratordraftspersongraphic artistartist
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Oskar Kokoschka CBE was an Austrian (though, at times during his long life, he had also Czech and British citizenship) 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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- writerarchitectart theoristessayistphotographer
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, 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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Ludwig Hirsch
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- actorradio personalitysinger-songwriterfilm actorsongwriter
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Ludwig Gustav Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.
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Stefan Sagmeister
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- graphic designerdesignerinstallation artisttypographerillustrator
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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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Pipilotti Rist
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- installation artistsculptorvisual artisttelevision producerlight artist
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Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte 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.
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Erwin Wurm
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- draftspersonuniversity teacherphotojournalistinstallation artistsculptor
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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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Thekla
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
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Thekla Kaischauri, better known mononymously as Thekla (Japanese: テクラ, Hepburn: Tekura), is an Austrian professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is the current AEW Women's World Champion in her first reign and a member of the Triangle of Madness stable. She is also known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she became one of the few high-profile gaijin in Japanese women's wrestling.
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Maria Dulębianka
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- writerpaintersocial activistopinion 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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Thomas Spitzer
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- graphic designerguitaristcomposerlyricistsongwriter
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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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Ernst Klimt
- Occupations
- 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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- graphic designercomics artistcaricaturistillustratorauthor
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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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Julya Rabinowich
- Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1998-2000
- Occupations
- authortrollwritertranslatorplaywright
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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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- ceramicistsculptordesignerteacher
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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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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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Kurdwin Ayub
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Kurdwin Ayub or Kurdvîn Eyûb 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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Pola Stout
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- textile designerweaverinterior 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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- children's writerpainterwriter
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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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Mara Mattuschka
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- cinematographerfilm editorfilm produceractorscreenwriter
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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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- university teacherperformance artistvideo artistartistphotographer
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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
- Biography
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Naomi Devil, originally Noémi Anna Ördög, is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer.
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Michaela Konrad
- Occupations
- illustratorartist
- Biography
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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
- sculptorpaintergraphic 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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Louise Fraenkel-Hahn
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- painterexlibristgraphic artist
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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.
