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.

  1. Gustav Klimt

    Gustav Klimt
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1862-1918 (aged 56)
    Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1876-1883
    Occupations
    painterarchitectural draftspersongraphic artistdrawerdesigner
    Biography

    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.

  2. Oskar Kokoschka

    Oskar Kokoschka
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1886-1980 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    poetplaywrightillustratorwriteruniversity teacher
    Biography

    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.

  3. Adolf Loos

    Adolf Loos
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1870-1933 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    writerarchitectdesignerteacherart theorist
    Biography

    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.

  4. Stefan Sagmeister

    Stefan Sagmeister
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    graphic designertypographerdesignerfilm directorillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  5. Ludwig Hirsch

    Ludwig Hirsch
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1946-2011 (aged 65)
    Occupations
    songwritersingerradio personalityactorfilm actor
    Biography

    Ludwig Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.

  6. Marc Elsberg

    Marc Elsberg
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    designerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. Maria Dulębianka

    Maria Dulębianka
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1861-1919 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    social activistpainterwriteropinion journalist
    Biography

    Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.

  9. Ernst Klimt

    Ernst Klimt
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1864-1892 (aged 28)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Ernst Klimt was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter. He was a younger brother of the better-known artist Gustav Klimt.

  10. Hannes Hegen

    Hannes Hegen
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1925-2014 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    caricaturistcomics artistgraphic designerauthorillustrator
    Biography

    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.

  11. Thekla

    Thekla
    Years
    1993-.. (age 31)
    Occupations
    professional wrestler
    Biography

    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.

  12. Anna-Eva Bergman

    Anna-Eva Bergman
    Born in
    Sweden Flag Sweden
    Years
    1909-1987 (aged 78)
    Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1929
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artist
    Biography

    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.

  13. Julya Rabinowich

    Julya Rabinowich
    Born in
    Russia Flag Russia
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1998-2000
    Occupations
    translatorwritertrollauthorpainter
    Biography

    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.”

  14. Michael Powolny

    Michael Powolny
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1871-1954 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    sculptorceramicist
    Biography

    Michael Powolny was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, ceramist, designer, and teacher.

  15. Thomas Spitzer

    Thomas Spitzer
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    composerguitaristgraphic designersingersongwriter
    Biography

    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.

  16. Nikolay Diulgheroff

    Nikolay Diulgheroff
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1901-1982 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    painterdesignerarchitect
    Biography

    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).

  17. Matthias Laurenz Gräff

    Matthias Laurenz Gräff
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    historianpainterpoliticianactivistsalonnière
    Biography

    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.

  18. Pola Stout

    Pola Stout
    Born in
    Ukraine Flag Ukraine
    Years
    1902-1984 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    interior designerweavertextile designer
    Biography

    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.

  19. Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich

    Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1903-1985 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    painterchildren's writerwriter
    Biography

    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.

  20. Martina Schettina

    Martina Schettina
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainter
    Biography

    Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art.

  21. Mara Mattuschka

    Mara Mattuschka
    Born in
    Bulgaria Flag Bulgaria
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    screenwriteractorfilm producerfilm editorcinematographer
    Biography

    Mara Mattuschka is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.

  22. Rainer Ganahl

    Rainer Ganahl
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1961-.. (age 63)
    Occupations
    performance artistuniversity teacherphotographerartistvideo artist
    Biography

    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).

  23. Ulrike Müller

    Ulrike Müller
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    artistdrawer
    Biography

    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.

  24. Moshe Ziffer

    Moshe Ziffer
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1902-1989 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    sculptorartist
    Biography

    Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.

  25. Friedrich König

    Friedrich König
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1857-1941 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    graphic artistgraphic designerpainterillustrator
    Biography

    Friedrich König was an Austrian painter, illustrator and designer.

  26. Thomas Steiner

    Thomas Steiner
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    film directortelevision actorpainteractor
    Biography

    Thomas Steiner, is an Austrian experimental film director of short films, and painter.

  27. Marie Müller

    Marie Müller
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1847-1935 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    painter
    Biography

    Marie Müller was an Austrian portrait painter.

  28. Michaela Konrad

    Michaela Konrad
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    artistillustrator
    Biography

    Michaela Konrad is an Austrian illustrator and artist.

  29. Naomi Devil

    Naomi Devil
    Born in
    Hungary Flag Hungary
    Years
    1987-.. (age 37)
    Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
    2010-2015 graduated with magister degree
    Occupations
    paintergraphic designer
    Biography

    Naomi Devil, originally Noémi Anna Ördög, is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer.

  30. Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra

    Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1886-1981 (aged 95)
    Enrolled in the University of Applied Arts Vienna
    Studied in 1905-1911
    Occupations
    paintersculptorgraphic artist
    Biography

    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.

  31. Irma Komlosy

    Irma Komlosy
    Born in
    Czech Republic Flag Czech Republic
    Years
    1850-1919 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    artistpainter
    Biography

    Maria Johanna "Irma" Komlosy was an Austrian painter known for her flower painting.

  32. Louise Fraenkel-Hahn

    Louise Fraenkel-Hahn
    Born in
    Austria Flag Austria
    Years
    1878-1939 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    paintergraphic artist
    Biography

    Louise Fraenkel-Hahn was an Austrian painter and founding member of the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs.