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Josef Abel Josef Abel (22 August 1768 – 4 October 1818) was an Austrian historical painter and etcher. Biography Abel was born in Aschach an der Donau, Upper Austria. He visited the Academy in Vienna, which was at the time directed by Friedrich ...

(1768–1818) *

Fritz Aigner Fritz Aigner (July 13, 1930 – January 9, 2005) was an Austrian graphic artist and painter. Biography Aigner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1947 to 1952. In 1952 he won an Austrian state fine arts prize for his artwork ''Die Kl ...

(1930–2005) * Joseph Matthäus Aigner (1818–1886) *

Tivadar Alconiere Tivadar Cohn Hermann Alconiere ( hu, Alconière Tivadar, 1797–1865) was a 19th-century Austro- Hungarian painter. Cohn Hermann was his original family name. He was born in Mattersburg and began studying art in Vienna in 1812. Born to Jewis ...

(1797–1865) *

Oz Almog Oz Almog is an Israeli and Austrian artist, born on 15 April 1956, in Kfar Saba, Israel. Biography Oz Almog was born to a family of Russian/Ukrainian pioneers (Avrutzki) and Romanian/Russian immigrants (Abramovich). After studying classical paint ...

(born 1956) * Franz Alt (1821–1914) *

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) *

Anton Altmann Anton Altmann (1808–1871) was an Austrian landscape painter. Life Altmann, was born in Vienna on 4 June 1808. His father, also called Anton, and his grandfather Joseph were both painters. He studied from nature, and under the instruction of M ...

(1808–1871) *

Friedrich von Amerling Friedrich von Amerling (14 April 1803 – 14 January 1887) was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef. He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835 and 1880. With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller he is one of ...

(1803–1887) * Heinz Anger (born 1941) *

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) *

Josef Maria Auchentaller Josef Maria Auchentaller (2 August 1865 – 31 December 1949) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, and printmaker associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style. Early life Josef Auchentaller attended the Technical College in Vienna ...

(1865–1949)

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Alfred Basel Alfred Basel (23 March 1876 – 24 January 1920) was an Austrian painter and etcher. Born in Vienna to a factory owner, Basel studied at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule under Felician von Myrbach between 1892 and 1898. He was a reserve officer d ...

(1876–1920) *

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) * Franz von Bayros (1866–1924) * Tommaso Benedetti (1797–1863) *

Julius Victor Berger Julius Victor Berger (20 July 1850, Neutitschein, Mähren — 17 November 1902, Vienna) was an Austrian painter who is known primarily for his genre paintings and portraits. Life Julius Berger's was the son of , who was also a painter. He en ...

(1850–1902) *

Joseph Bergler Joseph Bergler the Younger (1 May 1753 – 25 June 1829) was a painter, author of numerous etchings, and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague Academy. Life Bergler was born in Salzburg, the son of sculptor Joseph Bergler the Eld ...

(1753–1829) * Joseph Binder (1798–1864) *

Eduard Bitterlich Eduard Bitterlich (17 August 1833, Stupnicka, or Dubliany, Galicia, now Ukraine - 20 May 1872, Pfalzau, now part of Pressbaum), was an Austrian artist. Life Bitterlich was born in Galicia where his father had established himself. While he was ...

(1833–1872) *

Karl von Blaas Karl von Blaas (28 April 1815 – 19 March 1894) was an Austrian painter known for his portraits and religious compositions executed on canvas as well as in the form of frescoes. Biography Carl Von Blaas was born to a peasant family at Nauders i ...

(1815–1894) *

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) *

Otto Böhler Otto Böhler (11 November 1847 – 5 April 1913) was an Austrian silhouette artist who specialized in portraits of many great conductors, composers, and pianists of his time. Life Otto Boehler was the fifth son of the merchant Georg Friedri ...

(1847–1913) *

Friedrich August Brand Friedrich August Brand (20 December 1735 – 9 October 1806) was an Austrian painter. The son of Christian Hülfgott Brand, he was born at Vienna. He was a member of the Imperial Academy, and died at Vienna in 1806. He painted several historica ...

(1735–1806) *

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) * Arik Brauer (1929–2021) *

Günter Brus Günter Brus (born 27 September 1938, Ardning, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian painter, performance artist, graphic artist, experimental filmmaker and writer. Brus grew up in Mureck, attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Graz and went to Vienna in 1 ...

(born 1938)

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Hans Canon Hans Canon was the pseudonym of Johann Baptist Strašiřipka (also rendered as Johann Baptist Straschiripka or Hans Purschka-Straschiripka (15 March 1829, Vienna 12 September 1885, Vienna) an Austrian history and portrait painter. Life His fath ...

(1829–1885) *

Franz Caucig Franz Caucig, Franco Caucig or Francesco Caucig, also known in Slovene as Franc Kavčič or Frančišek Caucig (4 December 1755, Gorizia – 17 November, 1828, Vienna) was a Neoclassical painter and drawer of Slovene origin. He is one of the bes ...

(1755–1828) *

Edgar Chahine Edgar Chahine ( hy, Էդգար Պետրոսի Շահին: 31 October 1874, in Vienna – 18 March 1947, in Paris) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator of Armenian descent. Biography Edgar Chahine was born in Vienna but moved to Cons ...

(1874–1947) *

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) * Hugo Charlemont (1850–1939) *

Franz Cižek Franz Cižek (12 June 1865 – 17 December 1946) was an Austrian genre and portrait painter, who was a teacher and reformer of art education. He began the Child Art Movement in Vienna, opening the Juvenile Art Class in 1897. Life Franz Cižek w ...

(1865–1946) * Johann Nepomuk della Croce (1736–1819) *

Carl Otto Czeschka Carl Otto Czeschka (22 October 1878, Vienna – 30 July, 1960, Hamburg) was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte. Life Carl Otto Czeschka was half Bohemian and half Moravian origin. His father Wen ...

(1878–1960)

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* Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling (1783–1844) * Johann Dallinger von Dalling (1741–1806) * Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling (1782–1868) *

Josef Danhauser Josef Danhauser (19 August 1805 in Laimgrube (now a part of Mariahilf or Neubau) – 4 May 1845) was an Austrian painter, one of the main artists of Biedermeier period, together with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, among others. His wor ...

(1805–1845) * Hugo Darnaut (1851–1937) *

Franz Defregger Franz Defregger (after 1883 Franz von Defregger) (30 April 1835 – 2 January 1921) was an Austrian artist known for producing genre art and history paintings set in his native county of Tyrol. Biography Franz Defregger was born on 30 April ...

(1835–1921) * Anton Depauly (1801–1866) * Ludwig Deutsch (1855–1935) * Johann Conrad Dorner (1810–1866) * Johann Baptist Drechsler (1766–1811)

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Johann Georg Edlinger Johann Georg Edlinger (1 March 1741 – 15 September 1819) was an Austrian portrait painter. Edlinger was born at Graz in 1741. He was a pupil of Desmarées, and became court painter at Munich, where he died in 1819. His portraits are well pai ...

(1741–1819) *

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) * Marie Egner (1850–1940) *

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) *

Anton Einsle Anton Einsle (1801–1871), an Austrian portrait painting, portrait painter, was born at Vienna 30 January 1801. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Academy of that city, and was largely patronized by the court and nobility. He died at ...

(1801–1871) *

Franz Eisenhut Franz Eisenhut ( Hungarian: ''Eisenhut Ferencz''; Serbian Cyrillic: ''Франц Ајзенхут''; 25 January 1857 – 2 June 1903) was a prominent Danube Swabian Realist and Orientalist painter. He is considered one of Austria-Hungary's ...

(1857–1903) *

August Eisenmenger August Eisenmenger (11 February 1830 – 7 December 1907) was an Austrian painter of portraits and historical subjects. Life He was born in Vienna. At the age of fifteen, Eisenmenger was already a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and ...

(1830–1907) * Rudolf Eisenmenger (1902–1994) * Eduard Ender (1822–1883) *

Johann Ender Johann Nepomuk Ender (3 November 1793 Vienna – 16 March 1854 Vienna) was an Austrian portrait painter and engraver. Biography He spent several years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, where he had his debut with his canvas depictin ...

(1793–1854) * Thomas Ender (1793–1875) * Eduard von Engerth (1818–1897) *

Rudolf Ernst Rudolf Ernst (14 February 1854, Vienna – 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was an Austro-French painter, printmaker and ceramics painter who is best known for his orientalist motifs. He exhibited in Paris under the name "Rodolphe Ernst". Life He w ...

(1854–1932) *

Franz Eybl Franz Eybl (1 April 1806 – 29 April 1880) was an Austrian painter. Life Eybl was born in the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf at Große Steingasse 136 (today Stumpergasse 55). By 1816, at the age of ten, he had already entered the Academy of Fine ...

(1806–1880)

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Anton Faistauer Anton Faistauer (14 February 1887, Sankt Martin bei Lofer – 13 February 1930, Vienna) was an Austrian Expressionist painter. Life He came from a family of farmers, grew up near Maishofen and originally wanted to be a priest. After a meeting ...

(1887–1930) *

Bernd Fasching Bernd Fasching (born 18 July 1955 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian painter and sculptor. He lives and works in Vienna. Life and work In 2000 Fasching opened his project ''Westwerk'' (''a western investigation of the occidental culture'') in t ...

(born 1955) * Eugen Felix (1836–1906) *

Peter Fendi Peter Fendi (4 September 1796 – 28 August 1842) was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period. About Peter Fendi was born in Vienna on 4 Se ...

(1796–1842) * Johann Fischbach (1797–1871) * Ludwig Hans Fischer (1848–1915) * Vinzenz Fischer (1729–1810) * Camilla Friedländer (1856−1928) * Friedrich Ritter von Friedländer-Malheim (1825–1901) * Emil Fuchs (1866–1929) * Ernst Fuchs (1930–2015) *

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)

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Friedrich Gauermann Friedrich Gauermann (10 September 1807, – 7 July 1862) was an Austrian painter. The son of the landscape painter Jacob Gauermann (1773–1843), he was born at Miesenbach, Lower Austria, Miesenbach near Gutenstein in Lower Austria. He was an ea ...

(1807–1862) * Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–1880) *

Richard Geiger Richard Geiger (29 June 1870 – 9 February 1945) was an Austrian painter. Initially he worked for a Hungarian weekly magazine. By the 1920s, he worked illustrating books, bookplates and posters. His paintings included portraits, nudes, genre p ...

(1870–1945) * Franz Geyling (1803–1875) *

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) * Luigi Gillarduzzi (1822–1856) * Hilda Goldwag (1912–2008) * Alexander Demetrius Goltz (1857–1944) *

Helmuth Gräff Helmuth Gräff (born 12 April 1958 in Gars am Kamp) is an Austrian painter, poet and drawer. Gräffs painterly style is rooted on the one hand in the artistic heritage of Vincent van Gogh, and on the other hand he can also be regarded as a pre ...

(born 1958) *

Matthias Laurenz Gräff Matthias Laurenz Gräff (also known as ''Matthias Laurenz Gräff Ilpenstein''; born 19 July 1984) is an Austrian academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal f ...

(born 1984) *

Josef Grassi Josef Grassi (22 April 1757 – 7 January 1838) was an Austrian portrait and history painter. His middle name is usually given as "Maria", although there is evidence that it was actually "Mathias".Michael Lorenz Wien 2012 He is also called "Giuse ...

(1757–1838) *

Christian Griepenkerl Christian Griepenkerl (17 March 1839 – 22 March 1916) was a German painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Biography Griepenkerl was born to one of Oldenburg's leading families. As a young man, he heeded the advice of his ...

(1839–1916) *

Eduard Gurk Eduard Gurk (17 November 1801 – 31 March 1841) was an Austrian landscape painter and printmaker, who worked for the Habsburg Court under the Emperors Francis I and Ferdinand I. He was especially well known as a watercolorist. Biography He was ...

(1801–1841) * Ludwig Guttenbrunn (1750–1819)

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Gabriel von Hackl Gabriel (von) Hackl (24 March 1843 – 5 June 1926) was a German historicism (art), historicist painter. Life and work He was born in Maribor, Lower Styria, Austrian Empire. A surgeon's son, he attended the gymnasium (school), gymnasium in his ...

(1843–1926) *

Robert Hammerstiel Robert Hammerstiel (18 February 193323 November 2020) was an Austrian painter and engraver. His works are influenced by Serbian icon painting, wood-cut engraving and pop art. Hammerstiel was internationally recognized and received numerous aw ...

(1933–2020) *

Anton Hansch Anton Hansch (born 24 March 1813 in Vienna; died 8 December 1876 in Salzburg) was an Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alp ...

(1813–1876) * Anton Hartinger (1806–1890) *

Rudolf Hausner Rudolf Hausner (4 December 1914, Vienna – 25 February 1995, Mödling) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist" and "the first psychoanalytical painter" (Gunter Engelhardt). ...

(1914–1995) *

Xenia Hausner Xenia Hausner (born 1951 in Vienna) is an Austrian painter and stage designer. Life Hausner was born into a family of artists. Her father was the Austrian painter Rudolf Hausner. From 1972 to 1976, she studied stage design at the Academy of ...

(born 1951) *

Joseph Heicke Joseph Heicke, Josef Heicke (''Josef Heike''), hu, Heicke József, Heike József (12 March 1811, in Vienna, Imp.-R. Austria – 6 November 1861, in Vienna, Imp.&R. Austria), was an Austrian painter and lithographer, producing landscapes, po ...

(1811–1861) *

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) *

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) *

Claudius Herr Johann Claudius Herr (1775 – after 1838), alternatively spelled Klaudius Herr or Claudius Heer, was an Austrian painter and miniaturist. He was well known as an exceptional artist of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Biography Herr was born in ...

(1775–1838) * Louis Christian Hess (1895–1944) *

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) * Johann Nepomuk Hoechle (1790–1835) * Rudolf Alfred Höger (1877–1930) * Wolfgang Hollegha (born 1929) * Stephanie Hollenstein (1886–1944) * Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895) * Alfred Hrdlicka (1928–2009) *

Adolf Humborg Adolf Humborg (January 18, 1847 Oraviţa - April 14, 1921 Munich) was an Austrian painter. Humborg studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art Academy in Vienna between 1867 and 1872. He then completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, ...

(1847–1921) *

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)

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Adam Jankowski Adam Jankowski (born 1948 in Gdańsk, Poland) is an Austrian painter and professor at the Offenbach University of Art & Design. His studio is located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany. The early work of Jankowski is closely related to the '68 mo ...

(born 1948) *

Rudolf Jettmar Rudolf Jettmar (10 September 1869, Tarnów — 21 April 1939, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and printmaker. The largest collection of the work of Rudolf Jettmar in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, ...

(1869–1939)

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Alexander Kaiser Alexander Kaiser (26 February 1819, in Graz – 25 October 1872, in Graz) was an Austrian painter and lithographer. He was the son of the bookbinder and lithographer Joseph Franz Kaiser and brother to the lithographer and painter Eduard Kaiser ...

(1819–1872) *

Eduard Kaiser Eduard Kaiser (22 February 1820 in Graz – 30 August 1895 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and lithographer, as was his brother Alexander Kaiser (1819–1872). He was a celebrated portrait artist who drew the attention of Elisabeth, Empress of ...

(1820–1895) * Hermann Kern (1838–1912) *

Alexander Kircher Alexander Kircher (Trieste, 26 February 1867 – 16 September 1939, Berlin) was an Austrian-German marine and landscape painter and illustrator. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums in Germany, Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia while other ...

(1867–1939) * Raphael Kirchner (1876–1917) *

Ernst Klimt Ernst Klimt (3 January 1864 in Vienna – 9 December 1892 in Vienna) was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter. He was a younger brother of the better-known artist Gustav Klimt. Biography He was the third of seven children born to t ...

(1864–1892) *

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) 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 prim ...

(1862–1918) *

Julius Klinger Julius Klinger (22 May 1876 – 1942) was an Austrian painter, draftsman, illustrator, commercial graphic artist, typographer and writer. Klinger studied at the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum in Vienna. Early works in Vienna and Munich Klin ...

(1876–1942) *

Martin Knoller Martin Knoller (18 November 1725 – 24 July 1804) was an Austrian-Italian painter active in Italy who is remembered for his fresco work. Biography Born in Steinach am Brenner near the Austrian city of Innsbruck, Knoller studied under Paul Tr ...

(1725–1804) * Ludwig Koch (1866–1934) * Kiki Kogelnik (1935–1997) *

Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense Expressionism, expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the ...

(1886–1980) * Friedrich König (1857–1941) * Rudolf Kortokraks (1928–2014) * Barbara Krafft (1764–1825) * Johann Peter Krafft (1780–1856) *

Johann Victor Krämer Johann Victor Krämer (23 August 1861 in Adamsthal – 6 May 1949 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and photographer, working generally within the Orientalism, Orientalist genre. He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, and received man ...

(1861–1949) * Siegfried L. Kratochwil (1916–2005) *

Joseph Kreutzinger Joseph Kreutzinger (10 January 1757 – 14 July 1829) was an Austrian painter and engraver. Kreutzinger was born in Vienna. He was a pupil of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and specialized in portraits. Kreutzinger was later appointed Imper ...

(1757–1829) * Josef Kriehuber (1757–1829) *

Carl Kronberger Carl Kronberger (or Karl Kronberger; March 7, 1841 – October 27, 1921) was an Austrian painter. Biography Carl Kronberger was born in Freistadt, Upper Austria, on March 7, 1841. He was the son of a landlord. In 1869 he went to Munich and re ...

(1800–1876) *

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) *

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 (arts), Symbolism and Expressionism. Biography Kubin wa ...

(1877–1959) *

Leopold Kupelwieser Leopold Kupelwieser (17 October 1796, Markt Piesting – 17 November 1862, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement. Life He was the son of Johann Baptist Georg Kilian Kupelwieser (1760–1813), co-owner of ...

(1796–1862) *

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) * Karl Joseph Kuwasseg (1802–1877)

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* Demeter Laccataris (1798–1864) *

Siegmund L'Allemand Siegmund L’Allemand (8 March 1840, Vienna - 24 December 1910, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, known for history and war scenes, genre works and portraits. Biography His father, Thaddäus (1810-1872), was an engraver and his uncle was the his ...

(1840–1910) *

Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (german: Johann Baptist von Lampi der Ältere, pl, Jan Chrzciciel Lampi; 31 December 1751 – 11 February 1830) was an Austrian-Italian historical and portrait painter. He settled in the Russian Empire afte ...

(1751–1830) *

Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger (4 March 1775 – 17 February 1837) was an Austrian portrait painter. Biography He was born to the portrait painter, Johann Baptist von Lampi, now known as "The Elder", and his wife, Anna Maria née Fran ...

(1775–1837) * Hans Larwin (1873–1938) *

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) *

Helmut Leherb Helmut Leherb (14 March 1933 – 28 June 1997) was an Austrian artist and representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which is close to Surrealism. He was born Helmut Leherbauer in Vienna and is also known as Maître Leherb. Ca ...

(1933–1997) *

Anton Lehmden Anton Lehmden (2 January 1929 – 7 August 2018) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Lehmden was a co-founder, together with Ernst Fuchs, Maître Leherb (Helmut Leherb), Rudolf Hausner, Arik Brauer, Fritz Janschka and Wol ...

(1929–2018) * Felix Ivo Leicher (1727–1812) *

Maximilian Liebenwein Maximilian Albert Josef Liebenwein (11 April 1869 – 17 July 1926) was an Austrian-German painter, graphic artist and book illustrator, in the Impressionist and Art Nouveau styles. He spent significant time in Vienna, Munich and Burghausen, A ...

(1869–1926) *

Bertold Löffler Bertold Löffler (28 September 1874, Liberec — 23 March 1960, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, and designer. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Further reading * Kehl- ...

(1874–1960) *

Friedrich Loos Friedrich Loos was an Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Graz on 29 October 1797. He studied at the Vienna Academy with Joseph Mössmer and also went on study tours through the Austrian Alpine regions. F ...

(1797–1890)

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* Georg Mader (1824–1881) *

Hans Makart Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Ger ...

(1840–1884) * Anton von Maron (1733–1808) *

Franz von Matsch Franz Josef Karl Edler von Matsch (16 September 1861, in Vienna – 5 October 1942, in Vienna), also known as Franz Matsch, was an Austrian painter and sculptor in the Jugendstil style. Along with Gustav and Ernst Klimt, he was a member of the Ma ...

(1861–1942) *

Hubert Maurer Hubert Maurer (10 June 1738, Bonn - 10 December 1818, Vienna) was a German painter, graphic artist and art professor. Life and work He began as a student of the Bavarian court painter, Johann Georg Winter (1707-1770). He continued his educatio ...

(1738–1818) *

Gabriel von Max Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (23 August 1840 – 24 November 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter. Biography He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann. He studied between 1855 and 1858 at ...

(1840–1915) *

Georg Mayer-Marton George Mayer-Marton (3 June 1897 – 8 August 1960) was a Hungarian Jewish artist who was a significant figure in Viennese art between the First and Second World Wars, working in oil, watercolour and graphics. Following his forced emigration to ...

(1897–1960) *

Karl Mediz Karl Mediz (4 June 1868, in Vienna – 11 January 1945, in Dresden) was an Austrian landscape and portrait painter. Many of his works are in the Symbolist style. Biography He was born into a family of merchants and was raised by his aunt in Z ...

(1868–1945) *

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) *

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 ...

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Josef Mikl Josef Mikl (August 8, 1929 – March 29, 2008) was an Austrian abstract painter of the Informal style. Biography Born in Vienna, he received his first training at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, studying at the prominent Viennese academ ...

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Carl Moll Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 13 April 1945) was a prominent art nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was one of the artists of the Vienna Secession who took inspiration from the pointillist techniqu ...

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Josef Moroder-Lusenberg Josef Theodor Moroder, also known as the Lusenberger, (28 May 1846 in Urtijëi – 16 February 1939 in Urtijëi) was a painter and sculptor, the most prominent artist of the Moroder family from the Grödenthal in South Tyrol (now the Val Garden ...

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Joseph Mössmer Joseph Mössmer (20 May 1780 – 22 June 1845) was an Austrian painter and instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Born in Vienna, he began his artistic training in 1796 under Friedrich August Brand Friedrich August Brand (20 December 1 ...

(1780–1845) * Otto Muehl (1925–2013) * Leopold Müller (1834–1892)

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Joseph Nigg Joseph Nigg (13 October 1782 – 19 September 1863) was an Austrian painter, with painting on porcelain a specialty. Born in Vienna, Nigg studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Johann Baptist Drechsler. From 1800 to 1843, Nigg work ...

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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 ...

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* Joseph Oberbauer (1853–1926) * Karl O'Lynch von Town (1869–1942) *

Emil Orlík Emil Orlik (21 July 1870 – 28 September 1932) was a painter, etcher and lithographer. He was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany. Biography Emil Orlik ...

(1870–1932)

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* Ludwig Passini (1832–1903) * Elmar Peintner (born 1954) *

Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels (18 November 1833, Vienna — 22 January 1913, Berlin) was an Austrian landscape painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, under Franz Steinfeld and Thomas Ender. He taught landscape painting at th ...

(1833–1913) *

August von Pettenkofen August von Pettenkofen (10 May 182221 March 1889) was an Austrian painter. Biography Pettenkofen was born in Vienna; his father was a merchant and landowner. He grew up on his father's estate in Galitzia. After his father's death, he grew up with ...

(1821–1889) * Franz Xaver Petter (1791–1866) *

Adalbert Pilch Adalbert Pilch (16 February 1917 in Vienna, Austria – 10 December 2004 in Tulln) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist. The works of Adalbert Pilch include paintings, drawings and illustrations. He became well known for designing postage st ...

(1917–2004) * Max Edler von Poosch (1872–1968) * Karl Postl (1769–1818) *

August Prinzhofer August Prinzhofer (12 September 1816 in St. Veit an der Glan – 4 August 1885 in Bad Steinerhof bei Kapfenberg) was an Austrian painter and lithographer. Life August Prinzhofer came from a long-established Duchy of Carinthia, Carinthian family a ...

(1816–1885) * Erwin Puchinger (1875–1944) * Norbert Pümpel (born 1956)

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Martin Ferdinand Quadal Martin Ferdinand Quadal (born cs, Chvátal; 28 October 1736 – 10 January 1811) was a Moravian-Austrian painter and engraver. Quadal is a representative of the Austrian school of painting, working all across Europe in England, Italy, Austria, Ho ...

(1736–1811)

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Carl Rahl Carl Rahl, sometimes spelled Karl Rahl (13 August 1812 – 9 July 1865), was an Austrian painter. Life Rahl was born in Vienna to Carl Heinrich Rahl (1779–1843), an engraver. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and won a prize at ...

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Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the ''Hundsgruppe'' (''dog grou ...

(born 1929) * Barbara Rapp (born 1972) * Josef Rebell (1787–1828) * Erwin Redl (born 1963) *

Thomas Reinhold Henry Reinhold (c. 1690 – 1751), also known as Thomas Reinhold, was a German opera singer. He was born in Dresden and showed an early aptitude for music, which his family apparently discouraged. But he secretly left Dresden to follow Handel ...

(born 1953) * Maximilian Reinitz (1872–1935) * Oscar Rex (1857–1929) * Ferdinand von Řezníček (1868–1909) * Michael Rieser (1828–1905) *

Alfred Roller Alfred Roller (2 October 1864 – 21 June 1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer. His wife was Mileva Roller and they were members of the Viennese Secession movement. Life and work Roller was born in Brünn (Brn ...

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Anton Romako Anton Romako (20 October 1832 – 8 March 1889) was an Austrian painter. Life Anton Romako was born in Atzgersdorf (now a district of Liesing, Vienna), as an illegitimate son of factory owner Josef Lepper and his Czech housemaid Elisabeth M ...

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Constantin Daniel Rosenthal Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (''b''. Pest, Austrian Empire: ''Rosenthal Konstantin'', 1820 – July 23, 1851) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of Austrian-Jewish birth and a 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of ...

(1820–1851) * Utz Rothe (born 1940) * Johann Michael Rottmayr (1656–1730) * Franz Rumpler (1848–1922) * Ferdinand Runk (1764–1834)

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Johann Michael Sattler Johann Michael Sattler (28 September 1786, Herzogenburg – 28 September 1847, Mattsee) was an Austrian portrait and landscape painter, best known for his large-scale panoramas. Life and work He began his studies in 1804, at the Academy of ...

(1786–1847) * August Schaeffer (1833–1916) * Albert Schickedanz (1846–1915) *

Egon Schiele Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele (; 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portr ...

(1890–1918) *

Carl Schindler Carl Vincenz Schindler (23 October 1821 in Vienna – 22 August 1842 in Laab im Walde) was an Austrian military painter in the Biedermeier style. He was sometimes referred to as "Soldaten-Schindler" (Soldier Schindler). Life He received his f ...

(1821–1842) *

Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. Life He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...

(1842–1892) * Christoph Schmidberger (born 1974) * Robert Schöller (born 1950) * Carl Schuch (1846–1903) * Paul Schuss (born 1948) * Hans Schwarz (1922–2003) *

Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg, originally Friedrich Schwarz (1 March 1889, Vienna - 4 September 1942, Maly Trostenets) was an Austrian Expressionist and Cubist painter of Jewish ancestry. Biography His father was a magistrate's clerk.De Es Schwertberger (born 1942) *

Moritz von Schwind image:Moritz von Schwind 2.jpg, 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 th ...

(1804–1871) * Anna Stainer-Knittel (1841–1915) * Franz Steinfeld (1787–1868) *

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) * Ernst Stöhr (1860–1917) *

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 ...

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Rudolf Swoboda Rudolf Swoboda (1859–1914) was a 19th-century Austrian Orientalist painter. He was sometimes known as The Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle Rudolf, who was also an artist. Biography He studied under his father, Eduard Swoboda ...

(1859–1914)

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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, ...

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Josef Eduard Teltscher Josef Eduard Teltscher (15 January 1801 in Prague, Bohemia – 7 July 1837 in Piraeus, Greece) was an Austrian painter and lithographer. He was one of the best Vienna, Viennese portrait lithographers and Watercolor painting, watercolourists of the ...

(1801–1837)

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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 ...

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Andreas Untersberger Andreas Untersberger (1874–1944) was an Austrian painter who worked under the pseudonym A. Juenger. He created hundreds of illustrations for Catholic children's books and holy cards. Family tree Andreas Untersberger was the eighth son of a wood ...

(1874–1944)

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Aloys Wach Aloys Wach or Aloys Ludwig Wachelmayr (sometimes Wachelmeier, 30 April 1892 – 18 April 1940) was an Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Lambach, Upper Austria, and died in Braunau, Upper Austria. While his birth pla ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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) * Horst Widmann (born 1938) *

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) *

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) * Michael Wutky (1739–1822/23)

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* Carl Wenzel Zajicek (1860–1923) * Roman Zenzinger (1903–1990) * Johann Ziegler (1749–1812) *

Alfred Zoff Alfred Zoff (11 December 1852, in Graz – 12 August 1927, in Graz) was an Austrian Post-Impressionist landscape painter. Biography His father was a doctor who originally came from Carinthia. He decided to become an artist at an early age and, ...

(1852–1927) * Aloys Zötl (1803–1887)

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