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* Josef Abel (1768–1818) painter * Erika Abels d'Albert (1896–1975), painter and graphic designer * Raimund Abraham (1933–2010) architect * Soshana Afroyim (1927–2015), painter * Joseph Matthäus Aigner (1818–1886) painter * Oz Almog (born 1956) painter and writer * Franz Alt (1821–1914) artist, watercolorist *

Rudolf von Alt Rudolf Ritter von Alt (; 28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889. Biogra ...

(1812–1905) painter * Friedrich von Amerling (1803–1887) painter *

Christian Attersee Christian Ludwig Attersee (born Christian Ludwig on 28 August 1940 in Bratislava) is an Austrian artist. Biography After he had spent his youth in Upper Austria (also at the Attersee, the origin of his artist's name), Attersee began his studies ...

(born 1940) pop-art artist

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Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (20 January 1760 – 17 March 1826) was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia. Biography Early life and career Bauer was born in Feldsberg in 1760, the youngest son ...

(1760–1826) botanical illustrator *

Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He was instrumental in the development of the ...

(1900–1985) graphic designer, typographer, photographer, painter, architect * Franz von Bayros (1866–1924) erotic artist * Maria Bach (1896–1978), painter *Franz Anton Beer (1688–1749) – baroque master builder *

Antonietta Brandeis Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. Early life She was born on January 13, 184 ...

(1849–1910) painter * Arik Brauer (1929–2021) painter; born in Vienna * Günter Brus (born 1938) performance artist * Tina Blau (1845–1916), landscape painter

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* Bernhard Cella (born 1969) conceptual artist; born in Salzbug *

Eduard Charlemont Eduard Charlemont (2 August 1848 – 7 February 1906) was an Austrian painter. Early life Eduard Charlemont was born in Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1848. His father, Matthias Adolf Charlemont, was also a painter, specializing in p ...

(1848–1906) impressionist painter; born in Vienna *

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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* Günther Domenig (1934–2012) architect * Gerti Deutsch (1908–1979), photographer * Karl Duldig (1902–1986), Austrian-Australian sculptor

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* Joachim Eckl (born 1962) *

Albin Egger-Lienz Albin Egger-Lienz (29 January 1868 – 4 November 1926) was an Austrian painter known especially for rustic genre and historical paintings. Career He was born in Dölsach-Stribach near Lienz, in what was the county of Tyrol. He was the natural s ...

(1868–1926) painter * Bettina Ehrlich (1903–1985) painter and illustrator *

Fanny Elssler Fanny Elssler (born Franziska Elßler; 23 June 181027 November 1884) was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period. Life and career She was born in Gumpendorf, a neighborhood of Vienna. Her father Johann Florian Elssler was a second ge ...

(1810–1884) dancer * Ursula Endlicher, multi-media *

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (20 July 1656 – 5 April 1723) was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His inf ...

(1656–1723) architect *

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 ...

(born 1940) media artist * Josef Eidenberger (1899–1991) Artist

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* Bernd Fasching (born 1955) painter and sculptor; born in Vienna * Marina Faust (born 1950), photographer * Thomas Feuerstein (born 1968) media artist, bio artist, sculptor * Josef Frank (1885–1967) architect * Emil Fuchs (1866–1929) sculptor, medallist, painter * Ernst Fuchs (1930–2015) painter and sculptor; born in Vienna *

Joseph von Führich Joseph von Führich (fully Josef Ritter von Führich) (9 February 1800 – 13 March 1876) was an Austrian painter, one of the Nazarene movement, Nazarenes. Biography He was born at Kratzau (today Chrastava) in Bohemia. Deeply impressed as a b ...

(1800–1876) painter; born in Kratzau,

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

* Hortensia Fussy (born 1954) sculptor

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Richard Gerstl Richard Gerstl (14 September 1883 – 4 November 1908) was an Austrian painter and draughtsman known for his expressive psychologically insightful portraits, his lack of critical acclaim during his lifetime, and his affair with the wife of Ar ...

(1883–1908) painter * Bruno Gironcoli (1936–2010) sculptor; born in

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the p ...

* Gareis, Fritz (1872–1925) artist and cartoonist for the leftwing Vienna * Hilda Goldwag (1912–2008) painter * Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975) founder of

monochrom Monochrom (stylised as monochrom) is an international art-technology-philosophy group, publishing house and film production company. It was founded in 1993, and defines itself as "an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop att ...

* Eva Grubinger (born 1970), installation artist * Nilbar Gures (born 1977), multi-media

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* Ernst Haas (1921–1986) photographer * Jasmin Hagendorfer installation artist, sculpturer, performance artist * Alice Berger Hammerschlag (1917–1969), abstract painter * Karin Hannak (born 1940), multi-media * Edith Tudor Hart (1908–1973), photographer and spy *

Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer Baron Karl von Hasenauer (german: Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer ) (20 July 1833 – 4 January 1894) was an important Austrian architect and key representative of the Historismus school. He created several Neo-Baroque monuments, many around near ...

(1833–1894) architect * Johann Hattey (1859–1904) architect * Rudolf Hausner (1914–1995) painter and graphic artist * Xenia Hausner (born 1951) painter *

Gottfried Helnwein Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media. His work is ...

(born 1948) artist; born in Vienna * Kurt Hentschlager (born 1960) new media artist; born in Linz * Louis Christian Hess (1895–1944) painter and sculptor * Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668–1745) architect *

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

(1889–1945) painter *

Josef Hoffmann Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian- Moravian architect and designer. He was among the founders of Vienna Secession and co-establisher of the Wiener Werkstätte. His most famous architectural work is the Stoclet Pa ...

(1870–1956) architect *

Hans Hollein Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer

(1934–2014) architect * Wilhelm Holzbauer (1930–2019) architect * Carl Holzmann (1849–1914) architect *

Clemens Holzmeister Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of ...

(1886–1983) architect * Alfred Hrdlicka (1928–2009) sculptor and graphic artist; born in Vienna *

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

(1928–2000) artist; born in Vienna

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Nicky Imber Nicky Imberman (born Ignatz Imberman, Vienna 1920 – 1996) was an Austrian-born multidisciplinary Jewish artist best known for his sculptures on Jewish themes. Grand-nephew of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the Israeli national anthem 'Hatikva'. ...

(1920–1996)

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* Arnold Karplus (1877–1968) Viennese architect * Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), photographer *

Manfred Kielnhofer Manfred "KILI" Kielnhofer (born 28 January 1967 in Haslach an der Mühl) is an Austrian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. Due to his antisemitic statements in connection with the planned vaccination to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, nu ...

(born 1967) designer and sculptor * Ernestine von Kirchsberg (1857–1924), painter * Franz Klein (1779–1840) Viennese sculptor; creator of bust of Beethoven * Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) artist; prominent figure of the

Vienna Secession The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austr ...

* Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997) pop-art painter *

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) 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 Expres ...

(1886–1980) painter; born in Pöchlarn,

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

* Sacha Kolin (1911–1981), 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 * Edith Kramer (1916–2014), painter and art therapist * Siegfried L. Kratochwil (1916–2005) Viennese painter *

Alfred Kubin Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. Biography Kubin was born in Bohemia ...

(1877–1959) painter (graphics) *

Max Kurzweil Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil (12 October 1867, Bisenz – 9 May 1916, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879. Maximillian or Max Kurzweil studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna wit ...

(1867–1916) artist; co-founder of the

* Elke Krystufek (born 1970) painter * Felicitas Kuhn (1926–2022), illustrator

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* Joseph Lanzedelly the Elder (1772–1831) – lithographer *

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 Gran ...

(1919–2014) painter; born in Vienna * Ulrike Lienbacher (born 1963) artist, photographer, sculptor * Roberta Lima (born 1974) – video and performance artist *

Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was an inspiration to modernism and a widely- ...

(1870–1933) architect

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* Marianne Maderna (born 1944), sculptor and illustrator * Anna Mahler (1904–1988), sculptor * Hans Makart (1840–1884) history painter, designer and decorator * Anton Erhard Martinelli (1684–1747) architect * Domenico Martinelli (1650–1719) architect * Franz Martinelli (1651–1708) architect * Johann Baptist Martinelli (1701–1754) architect * Georg Mayer-Marton (1897–1960) artist * Gustav Mezey (1899–1981) painter of large scale posters *

Edgar Meyer Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. He has won five Grammy Awards and been nominated seven times. Meyer is a member of the Telluride Bluegras ...

(1853–1925) painter and political activist * Josef Mikl (1929–2008) abstract painter * Elizabeth Burger Monath (1907–1986), painter and 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 *

Koloman Moser Koloman Moser (; 30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werks ...

(1868–1918) – artist * Otto Muehl (1925–2013) artist, action art * Ulrike Müller (born 1971), mixed-media artist

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* Moritz Nähr (1859–1945) photographer * Christian Heinrich Nebbien (1778–1841) landscaping architect * Richard Neutra (1892–1970) architect; emigrated to the United States * Hans Niessenberger *

Hermann Nitsch Hermann Nitsch (29 August 1938 – 18 April 2022) was an Austrian contemporary artist and composer. His art encompassed wide-scale performances incorporating theater, multimedia, rituals and acted violence. He was a leading figure of Viennese Ac ...

(born 1938) painter and performance artist; born in Vienna

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* Gustav Peichl (1928–2019) architect *

Hubert Petschnigg Hubert Petschnigg (31 October 1913 – 15 September 1997) was an Austrian architect. Life Petschnigg was born in Klagenfurt, and went to school in Villach. In 1934 he began to study architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, where he e ...

(1913–1997) architect * Martina Pippal (born 1957), painter, sculptor and art historian * Boris Podrecca (born 1940) *

Alf Poier Alf Poier (born 22 February 1967 in Judenburg, Styria) is an Austrian artist and stand-up comedian. Biography Born in Judenburg in Styria, he started doing cabaret in 1995 in Graz, and has won several prizes for his work, including the ...

(born 1967) artist and stand-up comedian *

Jakob Prandtauer Jakob Prandtauer (baptized in Stanz bei Landeck (Tyrol) on 16 July 1660; died in Sankt Pölten on 16 September 1726) was an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed and supervised the constru ...

(1660–1726) architect * Thomas Pucher (born 1969) architect

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* Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) painter * Elise Ransonnet-Villez (1843–1899), painter * Barbara Rapp (born 1972) painter and mixed-media artist * Erwin Redl (born 1963) LED installation artist and painter * Lily Renée (born 1921), illustrator and writer * Lili Réthi (1894–1969), artist and illustrator * Lucie Rie (1902–1995), potter * Anton Pius Riegel (1789–18??) architect * Felice Rix-Ueno (1893–1967) textile artist * Anton Romako (1832–1889), painter * Johann Michael Rottmayr (1656–1730) Baroque painter *

Bernard Rudofsky Bernard Rudofsky (April 19, 1905 - March 12, 1988) was an Austrian American writer, architect, collector, teacher, designer, and social historian. His most notable work is '' Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed A ...

(1905–1988) designer, architect and social critic

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Stefan Sagmeister Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962) is an Austrian graphic designer, storytelling, 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 ...

(born 1962) – graphic designer and

typographer Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), an ...

* Karin Schäfer (born 1963) – performance artist *

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 * Egon Schiele (1890–1918) painter * Rudolf Schindler (1877–1953) architect; emigrated to the United States in 1914 * Lene Schneider-Kainer (1885–1971), painter * Barbara Schurz (born 1973), performance artist and writer * Paul Schuss (born 1948) painter and mixed media artist; emigrated to France in 1949 *

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Margarete "Grete" Lihotzky (born 23 January 1897 in the Margareten district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered tod ...

(1897–2000) architect and political activist *

Karl Schwanzer Karl Schwanzer (May 21, 1918 in Vienna – August 20, 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian architect. He was an important figure of post-war architecture. Life As early as high school, the architecture enthusiast Karl Schwanzer and his uncle (a carpen ...

(1918–1975) architect * Hans Schwarz (1922–2003) artist * Rosa Schweninger (1849–1918), painter *

Moritz von Schwind 200px, Moritz von Schwind, c. 1860. Moritz von Schwind (21 January 1804 – 8 February 1871) was an Austrian painter, born in Vienna. Schwind's genius was lyrical—he drew inspiration from chivalry, folklore, and the songs of the people. Schwind ...

(1804–1871) painter * Florian Seidl (born 1979) vehicle designer *

Harry Seidler Harry Seidler (25 June 19239 March 2006) was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the B ...

(1923–2006) architect; emigrated to Australia in 1948 * Günther Selichar (born 1960) media artist / photographer * Deborah Sengl (born 1974), painter and sculptor *

Santino Solari Santino Solari (1576 – April 10, 1646), was an Italian architect and sculptor, who worked mainly in Austria. He was born at Verna near Como. In 1612, he was appointed chief architect of Salzburg by the archbishop Markus Sittikus. His w ...

(1576–1646) architect * Martina Steckholzer (born 1974), artist *

Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while ...

(1805–1868) painter,

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken a ...

, poet and writer *

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 M ...

(1933–2013), painter, writer and musician * Marianne Stokes (1855–1927), painter * Jörg Streli (1940–2019), architect

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* Johann Joseph Thalherr (1730–1801) architect * 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 * Esin Turan (born 1970), sculptor and painter

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* Carola Unterberger-Probst (born 1978) painter, installations, experimental films, digital art

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* Aloys Wach (1892–1940) painter *

Otto Wagner Otto Koloman Wagner (; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau move ...

(1841–1918)

Jugendstil ''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...

architect behind much of turn-of-the-century Viennese architecture *

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (; 15 January 1793 – 23 August 1865) was an Austrian painter and writer. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period. Career In 1807, Waldmüller attended the Academy o ...

(1793–1865) painter *

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the sen ...

(born 1944) media artist *

Max Weiler Maximilian Weiler (25 September 1900 – 1 September 1969) was a Switzerland, Swiss association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football), defender. He played for SC Veltheim and Grasshopper Club Zürich, and also ...

(1910–2001) painter * Susanne Wenger (1915–2009), painter and sculptor *

Franz West Franz West (16 February 1947 – 25 July 2012) was an Austrian artist. He is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work which often require an involvement of the audience. Early life and e ...

(1947–2012) artist * Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844–1926) painter *

Fritz Wotruba Fritz Wotruba (23 April 1907, Vienna, Austria – 28 August 1975, Vienna) was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho- Hungarian descent. He was considered one of the most notable sculptors of the 20th century in Austria. In his work, he increasingly di ...

(1907–1975) sculptor; born in Vienna * Marie Elisabeth Wrede (1898–1981) painter *

Erwin Wurm Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria, and in New York City. Early life Erwin Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, in 1954. His father was a detective, who did not approve of ar ...

(born 1954) sculptor

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* Roman Zenzinger (1903–1990) commercial designer and painter; born in Olmuetz * Liane Zimbler (1892–1987) architect and interior designer *

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

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