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Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.


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* Erika Abels d'Albert (1896–1975), painter and graphic designer *
Soshana Afroyim Soshana Afroyim (born Susanne Schüller; September 1, 1927 – December 9, 2015) was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, s ...
(1927–2015), painter *
Maria Anwander Maria Anwander (born 1980) is an Austrian conceptual artist who specializes in performance and installation art. Her work has been featured in multiple solo exhibitions in Europe and the United States since 2009. Much of her work focuses on challe ...
(born 1980), conceptual artist * Marie von Augustin (1810–1886), painter


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* Maria Bach (1896–1978), painter *
Maria Baumgartner Maria Baumgartner (born 13 March 1952 in Königswiesen, Austria) is an Austrian studio potter and was professor of ceramics at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz. Biography From 1972 to 1979 Maria Baumgartner studied ceramics ...
(born 1952), ceramist and academic *
Luise Begas-Parmentier Luise Begas-Parmentier (1843–1920) was an Austrian-German landscape and architecture painter and Salonière. Life and work Begas-Parmentier née Parmentier was born on 15 April 1843 in Vienna, Austria. Following the example of her siste ...
(1843–1920), Austrian-German painter and salonière * Maria Biljan-Bilger (1912–1997), ceramist and sculptor *
Tina Blau Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter. Life Blau's father was a doctor in the and was very supportive of her desire to become a painter. She took lessons, successively, with ...
(1845–1916), painter *
Emma Bormann Emma Bormann (1887–1974) was an Austrian artist (primarily a printmaker) who lived in Vienna, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Riverside, California. Biography Emma Bormann was born in 1887 in Vienna. Her father, Eugen Bormann (1842–1917), was an arc ...
(1887–1974), art teacher and printmaker *
Eugenie Breithut-Munk Eugenie Breithut-Munk (12 July 1867, Vienna - 21 July 1915, Vienna) was an Austrian painter; specializing in portraits and Genre art, genre scenes. She also designed bookplates, in the Art Nouveau style. Biography She learned drawing at the " ...
(1867–1915), painter * Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (1891–1978), painter, print maker


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Eva Maria Düringer Cavalli Eva Maria Düringer Cavalli (born Eva Maria Düringer, and sometimes referred to as Eva Cavalli) is an Austrian fashion designer and former beauty pageant contestant. She held the title of Miss Austria in 1977 and the title of Miss Europe in 1978 ...
(fl 1977), fashion designer * Katharina Cibulka (born 1975), installation artist *
Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten (born 1969) is a contemporary Austrian visual artist. Biography Czerwenka-Wenkstetten was educated in London and Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , p ...
(born 1969), visual artist


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* Gabriele Maria Deininger-Arnhard (1855–1945), German-Austrian painter *
Gerti Deutsch Gertrude Helene Deutsch (1908–1979), also known as Gertrude Hopkinson, was an Austrian-born British photographer. She is best known for her work for the magazine ''Picture Post'', from 1938 until 1950. Early life and education Deutsch was a ...
(1908–1979), photographer *
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis (30 July 1898, in Vienna – 9 October 1944, in Auschwitz-Birkenau), was an Austrian artist and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Biography Frederika Dicker was born in ...
(1898–1944), painter * Irma von Duczynska (1869–1932), painter and sculptor


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* Marie Egner (1850–1940), painter *
Bettina Ehrlich Bettina Ehrlich, ''née'' Bauer, (10 March 1903 – 10 October 1985) 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. Family and educ ...
, (1903–1985), painter and illustrator * Marie Egner (1850–1940), painting *
Ursula Endlicher Ursula Endlicher is a New York City based Austrian multi-media artist who creates works in the fields of internet art, performance art and installation art. Life and education Ursula Endlicher was born in Vienna, Austria. She received her Master ...
, multi-media * Marianne von Eschenburg (1856–1937), painter *
Valie Export Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer an ...
(born 1940), video and performance artist


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Marina Faust Marina Faust (born 1950) is an Austrians, Austrian artist and photographer. Life and work Marina Faust began working at the age of eighteen as a photographer in Vienna. Between 1974 and 1975 she collaborated with Magnum Photos. In the 1980s, sh ...
(born 1950), photographer * Emilie Louise Flöge (1874–1952), fashion designer * Mathilde Flögl (1893–1958), artist and graphic designer * Louise Fraenkel-Hahn (1878–1939), painter *
Gustl French Auguste L. "Gustl" French (1909 – 2004) was an Austrian-American painter, printmaker and photographer. Biography She was born and educated in Vienna, Austria, receiving a doctorate in modern philology from the University of Vienna."Bay ...
(1909–2004), Austrian-American painter, printmaker and photographer * Camilla Friedländer (1856–1928), painter * Hedwig Friedländer(1863–1916), painter *
Hortensia Fussy Hortensia Fussy (also Hortensia; born 25 March 1954 in Graz) is an Austrian sculptor. Biography Hortensia studied sculpture at the School of Applied Arts Graz with Josef Pillhofer from 1970 to 1972 and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with ...
(born 1954), sculptor


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* Olga Granner (1874–1967), portrait painter who married the Swedish sculptor
Carl Milles Carl Milles (; 23 June 1875 – 19 September 1955) was a Swedish sculptor. He was married to artist Olga Milles (née Granner) and brother to Ruth Milles and half-brother to the architect Evert Milles. Carl Milles sculpted the Gustaf Vasa statu ...
* Hilda Goldwag (1912–2008), painter *
Herta Groves Herta "Georgette" Groves (April 1920 – 27 April 2016) was an Austrian-born British milliner who made hats for Queen Elizabeth II. Early life Groves grew up in Vienna, the daughter of Jewish parents, Wilhelm and Amelia. Her father died of pneum ...
(1920–2016), Austrian-British milliner *
Eva Grubinger Eva Grubinger (born 1970 in Salzburg) is an Austrian sculptor and installation artist. Life Between 1989–95 Grubinger studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin where she worked with Valie Export and Katharina Sieverding. Her graduation p ...
(born 1970), installation artist * Nilbar Gures (born 1977), multi-media


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Renate Habinger Renate Habinger (born 11 August 1957, in Sankt Pölten) is an Austrian graphic artist and illustrator. Habinger studied graphic design at the Federal Institute of Graphic Arts and Design (1971-1975) and since then, she has been working as a free ...
(born 1957), illustrator, graphic artist *
Jasmin Hagendorfer Jasmin Hagendorfer (also known as Hagendorfer) is a Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer and festival organizer. She is one of the founders and creative director of the ''Porn Film Festival Vienna''. Since 2019 sh ...
, installation art, sculptor, performance artist *
Alice Berger Hammerschlag Alice Berger Hammerschlag née Berger (18 February 1917 – 14 July 1969) was an Austrian artist. She settled in Belfast and while creating abstract paintings also had a number of creative and administrative roles in Northern Ireland. Biography ...
(1917–1969), abstract painter * Margarete Hamerschlag (1902–1958), painter, illustrator * Karin Hannak (born 1940), multi-media * Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka (1873–1954), painter and graphic artist * Hermine Heller-Ostersetzer (1874–1909), painter and graphic artist *
Mercedes Helnwein Mercedes Helnwein (born 1979) is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She was born in Vienna, Austria. Biography Mercedes Helnwein was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father is Austro-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein.Jessica Gelt (April 08, 2004"Rooms wi ...
(born 1979), creator of large-scale drawings *
Gertrud Höchsmann Gertrud Hochsmann (September 30, 1902 – January 16, 1990) was a Viennese fashion designer. She graduated from the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule where she studied under Josef Hoffman and Oswald Haerdtl. From 1927-1967, she ran a fashion salon on Maria ...
(1902–1990), fashion designer *
Nina Hollein Nina Hollein (9 February 1971, Vienna) is an Austrian author, architect, and fashion designer based in New York City. Life Hollein, the daughter of a designer and a classical philologist, grew up in Vienna and Linz. Her interest in architectu ...
(born 1971), fashion designer * Stephanie Hollenstein (1886–1944), Expressionist painter


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* Karin Jarl-Sakellarios (1885–1948), sculptor * Hildegard Joos (1909–2005), painter *
Birgit Jürgenssen Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003) was an Austrian photographer, painter, graphic artist, curator and teacher who specialized in feminine body art with self-portraits and photo series, which have revealed a sequence of events related to the daily so ...
(1949–2003), photographer, painter, graphic artist and teacher


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Dora Kallmus Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. Early life Dora Philippine Kallmus was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1881 to a Jewish fami ...
(1881–1963), photographer * Johanna Kampmann-Freund (1888–1940), painter *
Ernestine von Kirchsberg Ernestine von Kirchsberg (12 August 1857, Verona, Italy – 8 October 1924, Graz, Austria) was an Austrian landscape painter. Biography She was born in Italy. It is not known why her parents were there. Back in Graz, she began taking art lesson ...
(1857–1924), painter *
Kiki Kogelnik Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997) was an Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Born in southern Austria, she studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and moved to New York City in 1961. Kogelnik is considered Austria's most important pop-relate ...
(1935–1997), painter, sculptor and printmaker *
Sacha Kolin Sacha Kolin (9 May 1911 (Paris, France) – 14 February 1981 (New York City, United States)) was a French-born painter. She lived in Austria and other countries for several years before settling in the United States. Life and work Kolin was born ...
(1911–1981), painter *
Broncia Koller-Pinell Broncia Koller-Pinell (25 February 1863 – 26 April 1934) was an Austrian Expressionist painter who specialized in portraits and still-lifes. Life She was born as Bronisława Pineles to a Jewish family in Sanok in what is now Poland. Her fath ...
(1863–1934), painter * Irma Komlosy (1850–1919), painter *
Michaela Konrad Michaela Konrad (born 4 October 1972 in Graz) is an Austrian illustrator and artist. Life and career Michaela Konrad works in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Vienna. After studying at the University of Applied Arts, she began her Spacelove project. ...
(born 1972), contemporary artist * Frida Konstantin (1884–1918), painter *
Brigitte Kowanz Brigitte Kowanz (13 April 1957 – 28 January 2022) was an Austrian artist. Kowanz studied from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She was Professor of Transmedial Art there from 1997. Works Since the 1980s, Brigitte Kowanz ...
(born 1957), contemporary artist *
Barbara Krafft Maria Barbara Krafft (; 1 April 1764 – 28 September 1825) was an Austrian painter, best remembered today for her widely reproduced posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life and career She was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, in the Czec ...
(1764–1825), painter * Grete Wolf Krakauer (1890–1970), painter *
Edith Kramer Edith Kramer (1916–2014) was an Austrian social realist painter, a follower of psychoanalytic theory and an art therapy pioneer. Life and work Kramer was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1916. At age 13 Kramer began art lessons with Fr ...
(1916–2014), painter and art therapist * Ilona Kronstein (1897–1948), Budapest-born painter *
Elke Krystufek Elke Silvia Krystufek (born 1970) is an Austrian conceptual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Vienna, Austria. She works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video and performance art. Life Krystufek studied ...
(born 1970), conceptual artist * Felicitas Kuhn (1926–2022), illustrator


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Maria Lassnig Maria Lassnig (8 September 1919 – 6 May 2014) was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness".Attias, Lauri''Maria Lassnig'', ''Frieze'', May 1996. She was the first female artist to win the Grand ...
(1919–2014), painter *
Gisela Falke von Lilienstein Gisela Falke Von Lilienstein (born 1871; death date unknown) was an Austrian designer who designed ceramics, glassware, jewelry, lighting, and furniture for the Wiener Werkstätte. Her work was exhibited in Vienna Secessionist exhibitions and intern ...
(1871–?), ceramicist, designer *
Lia Lia is a feminine given name. In the Spanish-speaking world, it is accented Lía. In America, the name may be a variant of Leah or Lea. Lia may be a diminutive of various names including Julia, Cecilia, Amelia, Talia, Cornelia, Ophelia, Rosal ...
(fl. 1990–), software artist *
Roberta Lima Roberta Lima (born 1974) is a Brazilian born Austrian video art, video and performance artist. Roberta Lima graduated with a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos in southern Brazil. After she moved ...
(born 1974), video and performance artist *
Lea von Littrow Leo von Littrow (17 March 1860 – 11 May 1925) was an Austrian- Fiuman painter known for her landscapes and marine paintings. Biography Leo von Littrow was born as Leontine Camilla von Littrow in Trieste and was always called "Leo" from an early ...
(1860–1914), painter *
Ulli Lust Ulli Lust (born 1967 in Vienna) is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin. Her graphic novel ''Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life'' was translated into English and published by Fantagraphics Books in 2013. In 2013, ''Toda ...
(born 1967), cartoonist * Mariette Lydis (1887–1970), Austrian-Argentine painter


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Marianne Maderna Marianne Maderna (born 1944) is an Austrian installation artist. Life Maderna's mother, Katharina, was a publisher's reader, her father the young people's writer Karl Bruckner. Maderna attended the Graphic Training and Research Institute in Vien ...
(born 1944), sculptor and illustrator *
Anna Mahler Anna Justine Mahler (15 June 1904 – 3 June 1988) was an Austrian sculptor. Early life Born in Vienna, Anna Mahler was the second child of the composer Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma Schindler. They nicknamed her 'Gucki' on account of her ...
(1904–1988), sculptor * Nadja Maleh (born 1972), actress, singer,
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artist and director * Margarete Markl (1902–1981), sculptor * Paula Maly (1891–1974), painter * Gerda Matejka-Felden (1901–1984), painter * Ursula Mayer (born 1970), multimedia artist *
Rosa Mayreder Rosa Mayreder (née Obermeyer; 30 November 1858, in Vienna – 19 January 1938, in Vienna) was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. She was the daughter of Marie and Franz Arnold Obermayer who was a wealthy restaurant o ...
(1858–1938), painter *
Emilie Mediz-Pelikan Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (2 December 1861, Vöcklabruck - 19 March 1908, Dresden) was an Austrian landscape painter. Many of her works show some Symbolist influence. Biography Her father was a government financial officer. In 1883, she became t ...
(1861–1908), painter *
Moje Menhardt Moje Menhardt (born 20 June 1934 in Hamburg) is an Austrian painter. Life and career Moje Menhardt lives and works in Weitenegg and Vienna, Austria. Before she had been living in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and ...
(born 1934), painter *
Olga Milles Olga Louise Milles née Granner (1874–1967) was an Austrian-born portrait painter who spent many years at Millesgården in Sweden after marrying the sculptor Carl Milles. Although while young she was very productive, she painted less when marri ...
(1874–1967), portrait painter * Elizabeth Burger Monath (1907–1986), illustrator *
Inge Morath Ingeborg Hermine Morath (; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955. Morath was the ...
(1923–2002), photographer *
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (October 24, 1906 – June 10, 1996) was an Austrian painter who lived in Britain from 1939 onwards, becoming a naturalised subject in 1948. Early life Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906 to ...
(1906–1996), painter *
Bertha Müller Bertha Mathilde Müller (28 October 1848, Vienna - 26 January 1937, Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter.
(1848–1925), painter *
Birgit C. Muller Birgit C. Muller is an Austrian fashion designer, producer, and philanthropist. Career Birgit C. Muller was born in Vienna, Austria and raised in Marbella, Spain. She resides in Beverly Hills, California and has worked in the film and television i ...
(fl 2000s), fashion designer * Marie Müller (1847–1935), painter * Ulrike Müller (born 1971), mixed-media artist *
Agnes Muthspiel Agnes Muthspiel (born Agnes Gahbauer: 8 February 1914 - 3 May 1966) was a Salzburg painter, representative of the "Salzburg Group" of artists that came to prominence during the 1950s.Rosina König-Hollerwöger: Agnes Muthspiel. Sonderwege der ös ...
(1914–1966), painter


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Juliana Neuhuber Juliana Neuhuber (born 1979) is a director, screenwriter, and artist from Austria. She is based in Vienna. Neuhuber has been active in the Austrian independent film scene since 1998, and realized many short films and artistic projects. Her firs ...
(born 1979), artist and filmmaker *
Gertrud Natzler Gertrud Amon Natzler (7 July 1908 – 3 June 1971) was an Austrian-American ceramicist, who together with her husband Otto Natzler created some of the most praised ceramics art of the 20th century, helping to elevate ceramics to the status of a fi ...
(1908–1971), Austrian-American ceramist


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* Vevean Oviette (1902–1986), painter, print maker


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Maria Petschnig Maria Petschnig (born 1977) is an Austrian artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her works include a variety of media including video art. Her artistic works frequently deal with memory and voyeurism. Petschnig is known for films, ...
(born 1977), video artist * Margot Pilz (born 1936), visual artist *
Martina Pippal Martina Pippal (born 1957) is an Austrian art historian and a painter and sculptor. Biography Martina Pippal was born 1957 in Vienna as the daughter of the painter Hans Robert Pippal (1915–1998) and the architect Eugenie Pippal-Kottnig ...
(born 1957), painter, sculptor and art historian * Lisa von Pott (born 1888), sculptor * Adrienne von Pötting (1856–1909), painter * Teresa Präauer (born 1979), writer and visual artist


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* Caroline Ramersdorfer (born 1960), sculptor * Elise Ransonnet-Villez (1843–1899), painter * Barbara Rapp (born 1972), mixed-media artist *
Lily Renée Lily Renée Phillips (''née'' Willheim; May 12, 1921 – August 24, 2022), often credited as L. Renée, Lily Renée, or Reney, was an Austrian-born American artist best known as one of the earliest women in the comic-book industry, beginning in ...
(born 1921), illustrator and writer *
Lili Réthi Lili Réthi (November 19, 1894 – 1969) was an artist and illustrator. Born in Vienna, Austria, she left Germany to avoid a commission from Hermann Göring glorifying the Third Reich. She eventually became an American citizen. Réthi illustrate ...
(1894–1969), artist and illustrator *
Lucie Rie Dame Lucie Rie, (16 March 1902 – 1 April 1995) () was an Austrian-born British studio potter. Life Early years and education Lucie Gomperz was born in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary, the youngest child of Benjamin Gomperz, a Jewis ...
(1902–1995), potter * Elli Riehl (1902–1977), painter *
Teresa Feoderovna Ries Teresa Feoderovna Ries (30 January 1874, Moscow – 16 July 1956, Lugano) was a Russian-born Austrian sculptor and painter. The year of her birth has also been given as 1866 and 1877. Life and work Teresa Ries was born in Russia to a Jewish famil ...
(1874–1956), sculptor


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* Frieda Salvendy (1887–1968), painter * Karin Schäfer (born 1963), performance artist * Therese Schachner (1869–1950), painter *
Martina Schettina Martina Schettina (born 1961) is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art. Life Martina Schettina was born in 1961 in the district Währing in Vienna. Her father was a mathematician. She spent her childhood in ...
(born 1961), mixed media artist * Emma Schlangenhausen (1882–1947), graphic artist *
Lene Schneider-Kainer Lene Schneider-Kainer, born Lene Schneider (1885 – 1971), was a Jewish-Austrian painter, daughter of the painter Sigmund Schneider, noted for her illustration of "''Lucian, Lukian:Hetärengespräche. Mit Illustrationen von Lene Schneider-Kainer ...
(1885–1971), painter *
Gaby Schreiber Gaby Schreiber (nee Wolff, 1916–1991) was a British industrial and interior designer. She was born Gaby Wolff in Austria. She studied art and stage and interior design in Vienna, Florence, Berlin, and Paris. She was a leading British industrial ...
(1904–1976), industrial and interior designer *
Barbara Schurz Barbara Schurz (Russian transliteration: Барбара Шурц) (born 1973) is an Austrian artist and self-described " revolutionary activist". Life and work At Vienna University she pursued Slavic Studies and Women's Studies. Subsequently ...
(born 1973), performance artist and writer * Rosa Schweninger (1849–1918), painter *
Deborah Sengl Deborah Sengl (born 2 January 1974) is an Austrian painter and artist. She attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna and received a diploma A diploma is a document awarded by an educational institution (such as a college or university) te ...
(born 1974), painter and sculptor *
Jutta Sika Jutta Sika (September 17, 1877 – January 2, 1964) was an Austrian graphic designer, artist, fashion designer, and an educator. Early life and education Sika was born on September 17, 1877, in Linz, Austria. Her father, Alfred Sika, had worked a ...
(1877–1964), graphic designer, ceramist, painter, fashion designer * Susi Singer (1891–1955), Austrian-American ceramist * Tamuna Sirbiladze (1971–2016), Georgian-Austrian painter * Anna Stainer-Knittel (1841–1915), painter * Edith Stauber (born 1968), film director and illustrator * Martina Steckholzer (born 1974), artist * Lilly Steiner (1884–1961), painter * Evelin Stermitz (born 1972), video and performance artist * Marguerite Stix (1904–1975), sculptor, jeweller and ceramist *
Ceija Stojka Ceija Stojka (23 May 1933 – 28 January 2013) was an Austrian Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. Life Stojka was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, in 1933 as the fifth of six children to mother Ma ...
(1933–2013), painter, writer and musician *
Marianne Stokes Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) was an Austrian painter. She settled in England after her marriage to Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), the landscape painter, whom she had met in Pont-Aven. Stokes was considered one of the le ...
(1855–1927), painter *
Josefine Swoboda Josefine Swoboda (29 January 1861 in Vienna – 27 October 1924 in Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter. She was one of the most active Vienna portraitists. Life Josefine Swoboda came from a Vienna family of artists, she was the daughter o ...
(1861–1924), painter


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* Ernestine Tahedl (born 1940), Austrian-Canadian painter *
Bertha von Tarnóczy Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg (1 April 1846, Innsbruck - 6 March 1936, Pörtschach am Wörthersee) was an Austrian art teacher and painter, specializing in landscapes and still lifes. Biography Her father was the court Financial Director, ...
(1846–1936), art teacher and painter * Helene von Taussig (1879–1942), painter * Ottilie Tolansky (1912–1977), painter *
Hede von Trapp Hede von Trapp (18 November 1877 – 29 December 1947) was an Austrian poet, painter and graphic designer of the Art Nouveau movement. Biography von Trapp was born in Pula, Austria-Hungary, on 18 November 1877. She was the daughter of the Au ...
(1877–1947), painter, illustrator and poet *
Edith Tudor Hart Edith Tudor-Hart (''née'' Suschitzky; 28 August 1908 – 12 May 1973) was an Austrian-British photographer and spy for the Soviet Union. Brought up in a family of socialists, she trained in photography at Walter Gropius's Bauhaus in Dessau, an ...
(1908–1973), photographer and spy *
Esin Turan Esin Turan (born 1970) is a Turkish painter and sculptor who currently resides in Vienna. Turan focuses her work on overcoming Western stereotypes of the Muslim world The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic c ...
(born 1970), sculptor and painter *
Ilse Twardowski-Conrat Ilse von Twardowski or Ilse Twardowski-Conrat (1880–1942) was an Austrian sculptor. She created many noted sculptures. She took her own life in 1942 as a result of the Holocaust. Life Twardowski was born in Vienna in 1880. Her father was a merc ...
(1880–1942), sculptor


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Carola Unterberger-Probst Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 1978), aka up'' or Carola Unterberger, is an Austrian media artist and philosopher of art. In addition to video installations and experimental films, her work contains Objet d'art, paintings and digital art. She sp ...
(born 1978), new media artist and philosopher


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* Helena Kottler Vurnik (1882–1962), Austrian-Slovenian illustrator and painter


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* Rosina Wachtmeister (born 1939), sculptor, painter * Trude Waehner(1900–1979), painter *
Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra Josephine Therese (Pepi) 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. Life Known as Pepi and born in Au ...
(1886–1981), Austrian-Swedish graphic designer, painter, sculptor *
Susanne Wenger Susanne Wenger MFR, also known as Adunni Olorisha (4 July 1915 – 12 January 2009), was an Austrian-Nigerian artist and Yoruba priestess who expatriated to Nigeria. Her main focus was the Yoruba culture and she was successful in building a ...
(1915–2009), painter and sculptor *
Vally Wieselthier Valerie "Vally" Wieselthier (May 25, 1895 – September 1, 1945) was an Austrian-American ceramic artist. Biography Valerie Wieselthier was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Her father, Wilhelm Wieselthier, was a lawyer. She attended t ...
(1895–1945), Austrian-American ceramist *
Elisabeth Wild Elisabeth Wild (6 February 1922 – 12 February 2020) was an Austrian collage artist. Early life and education Born in Europe, Wild emigrated to Argentina with her parents in Franz and Stefanie Pollack in 1938. Wild studied painting at the Acade ...
(1922–2020), collage artist * Grete Wilhelm (1887–1942), painter *
Olga Wisinger-Florian Olga Wisinger-Florian (1 November 1844 27 February 1926) was an Austrian impressionist painter, mainly of landscapes and flower still life. She was a representative of the Austrian "" (Mood Impressionism), a loose group of Austrian impression ...
(1844–1926), painter * Grete Wolf Krakauer (1890–1970), painter *
Marie Elisabeth Wrede Marie Elisabeth Wrede (born 1898 in Salzburghofen, died 1981 in Boulogne) was an Austrian painter, best known for her portraits. Wrede studied with Fernand Léger in Paris. She associated with Paul Valéry, Robert and Sonia Delaunay and also Pa ...
(1898–1981), portrait painter


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* Franziska Zach (1900–1930), painter *
Lisbeth Zwerger Lisbeth Zwerger (born 26 May 1954) is an Austrian illustrator of children's books. For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1990. Zwerger was born in Vienna in 1954. ...
(born 1954), illustrator


See also

* List of Austrian women photographers {{DEFAULTSORT:Austrian women artists - Austrian women artists, List of
Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...
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