Notable Alumni of Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [Sorted List]

1. William Berczy

1744-1813 (aged 69)

painter architect

William von Moll Berczy was a German-born Upper Canada pioneer and painter. He is considered one of the co-founders of the Town of York, Upper Canada, now Toronto, Ontario, Canada and one of Canada's pre-eminent pre-Confederation artists.

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2. Leopold Carl Müller

1834-1892 (aged 58)

painter teacher illustrator draftsperson

Leopold Carl Müller was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works.

3. János Fadrusz

1858-1903 (aged 45)

sculptor

János Fadrusz was a Hungarian sculptor in the Neoclassical style. He was especially noted for his works on historical subjects.

4. Josef Abel

1764-1818 (aged 54)

etcher painter history painter

Josef Abel was an Austrian historical painter and etcher.

5. Helmut Ditsch

1962-. (aged 64)

painter

Helmut Ditsch is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water.

6. Olena Kulchytska

1877-1967 (aged 90)

visual artist painter art educator graphic artist

Olena Lvivna Kulchytska was a Ukrainian painter and politician who was a pioneer of Ukrainian children book illustration in western Ukraine.

7. Anton Romako

1832-1889 (aged 57)

painter

Anton Romako was an Austrian painter.

8. Anton von Maron

1733-1808 (aged 75)

portraitist painter teacher

Anton von Maron was an Austrian painter who specialized in portraits.

9. Johann Peter Krafft

1780-1856 (aged 76)

painter

Johann Peter Krafft was a German-born Austrian painter, who specialized in portraits, historical works, and genre scenes.

10. Karel Pařík

1857-1942 (aged 85)

architect

Karel Pařík was a Czech-born architect in the Austro-Hungarian empire. Pařík spent most of his life in Sarajevo where he designed over seventy major buildings, which are today classified among the most beautiful in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For Bosnians, he is also known as Karlo Paržik and is considered as "The builder of Sarajevo". He died working on his last...

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11. Josef Schulz

1840-1917 (aged 77)

restorer teacher pedagogue architect

Josef Schulz was a Czech architect, designer, teacher and restorer.

12. Anton Lehmden

1929-2018 (aged 89)

painter graphic artist illustrator university teacher

Anton Lehmden was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

13. Alexander von Wagner

1838-1919 (aged 81)

university teacher painter teacher

Alexander originally Sándor von Wagner was a Hungarian painter.

14. Thomas Ender

1793-1875 (aged 82)

landscape painter painter printmaker draftsperson

Thomas Ender was an Austrian landscape painter and watercolorist.

15. Hans Larwin

1873-1938 (aged 65)

painter university teacher

Hans Larwin was a Viennese genre painter and academician.

16. Constantin Daniel Rosenthal

1820-1851 (aged 31)

sculptor painter revolutionary

Constantin Daniel Rosenthal was a painter and sculptor of Austrian birth and a Romanian 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.

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17. Josef Zítek

1832-1909 (aged 77)

teacher architect general contractor

Josef von Zítek was a Czech architect best known for two Neo-Renaissance landmarks in Prague, the National Theatre and the Rudolfinum.

18. Rihard Jakopič

1869-1943 (aged 74)

painter art theorist

Rihard Jakopič was a Slovene painter. He was the leading Slovene Impressionist painter, patron of arts and theoretician. Together with Matej Sternen, Matija Jama and Ivan Grohar, he is considered the pioneer of Slovene Impressionist painting.

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19. Josef Mocker

1835-1899 (aged 64)

general contractor teacher designer architect restorer

Josef Mocker was a Czech architect and restorer. He worked in a purist neo-Gothic style and is the author of the reconstruction of many important monuments in Bohemia.

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20. Soshana Afroyim

1927-2015 (aged 88)

painter

Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced...

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21. Amoako Boafo

1984-. (aged 42)

visual artist painter

Thomas Amoako Boafo, known as Amoako Boafo, is a Ghanaian painter and visual artist.

22. Ignaz Günther

1725-1775 (aged 50)

wood carver sculptor

Ignaz Günther was a German sculptor and woodcarver working in the Bavarian Rococo tradition.

23. Isidor Kaufmann

1853-1921 (aged 68)

painter

Isidor Kaufmann was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life. The artist's life and work was featured by the Jewish Museum Vienna 1995 in a show curated by Tobias G. Natter.

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24. Anastas Jovanović

1817-1899 (aged 82)

painter lithographer photographer

Anastas Jovanović was a Serbian photographer and author of Bulgarian origin.

25. Carl Otto Czeschka

1878-1960 (aged 82)

draftsperson illustrator teacher graphic artist watercolorist

Carl Otto Czeschka was an Austrian painter and graphic designer associated with the Wiener Werkstätte.

26. Franciszek Żmurko

1859-1910 (aged 51)

painter

Franciszek Żmurko was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at the Academy of Fine Arts where he took lessons from Professor Jan Matejko. In 1877 Żmurko moved to Vienna, Austria where he was accepted at the Vienna...

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27. László Paál

1846-1879 (aged 33)

painter

László Paál was a Hungarian Impressionist landscape painter.

28. Leopold Kupelwieser

1796-1862 (aged 66)

painter

Leopold Kupelwieser was an Austrian painter, often associated with the Nazarene movement.

29. Mór Than

1828-1899 (aged 71)

painter portrait painter history painter

Mór Than was a Hungarian painter. He painted in the Realist school and worked with several high-profile Hungarian and Austrian painters of his time. He travelled around Italy, in France and his native Hungary. Later in life, he worked for several museums and galleries in Hungary.

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30. Josef Danhauser

1805-1845 (aged 40)

painter artist

Josef Franz Danhauser was a painter from the Austrian Empire. He was one of the prominent artists of Biedermeier period, along with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, and others. Danhauser's works, which went largely unappreciated in his time, dealt with moralising subjects and had a clear influence of William Hogarth.

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31. Franz Pforr

1788-1812 (aged 24)

graphic artist painter

Franz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

32. Josef Kriehuber

1800-1876 (aged 76)

portraitist painter lithographer

Josef Kriehuber was an Austrian lithographer and painter, notable for the high quality of his lithographic portraits. A prolific yet meticulous artist, he made numerous portraits of near-photographic detail for nobility, well-known personalities, and government officials. Josef Kriehuber left more than 3000 lithographs, with portraits of many people including some of the most illustrious figures of mid-19th century Central Europe.

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33. Alfred Roller

1864-1935 (aged 71)

illustrator fashion figure artist designer pedagogue lithographer

Alfred Roller was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer. His wife was Mileva Roller and they were members of the Viennese Secession movement.

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34. Max Oppenheimer

1885-1954 (aged 69)

designer painter graphic artist

Max Oppenheimer, later known as MOPP, was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

35. Anna Ticho

1894-1980 (aged 86)

painter draftsperson

Anna Ticho was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a café.

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36. Katarina Ivanović

1811-1882 (aged 71)

painter

Katarina Ivanović was a Serbian painter from the Austrian Empire. She is regarded as the first Serbian female painter in modern art history.

37. Mihály Pollack

1773-1855 (aged 82)

architect

Mihály Pollack was an Austrian-born Hungarian architect, key figure of neoclassical architecture. His main work is the Hungarian National Museum (1837–46).

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38. Heinrich von Ferstel

1828-1883 (aged 55)

teacher architect professor

Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel was an Austrian architect and professor, who played a vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna.

39. Max Kurzweil

1867-1916 (aged 49)

painter draftsperson graphic artist

Maximilian Franz Viktor Zdenko Marie Kurzweil was an Austrian painter and printmaker. He moved near Vienna in 1879.

40. Gottfried Lindauer

1839-1926 (aged 87)

painter visual artist gardener

Gottfried Lindauer was a Czech and New Zealand painter. He was famous for his portraits, including many of Māori people.

41. Friedrich Achleitner

1930-2019 (aged 89)

university teacher art critic poet architect art historian

Friedrich Achleitner was an Austrian poet and architecture critic. As a member of the Wiener Gruppe, he wrote concrete poems and experimental literature. His magnum opus is a multi-volume documentation of 20th-century Austrian architecture. Written over several decades, Achleitner made a personal visit to each building described. He was a professor of the history and theory of architecture at the...

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42. Eduard van der Nüll

1812-1868 (aged 56)

teacher architect professor

Eduard van der Nüll was an Austrian architect, who was one of the great masters in the historicist style of Vienna's Ringstrasse.

43. Joseph Keppler

1838-1894 (aged 56)

caricaturist painter

Joseph Ferdinand Keppler was an Austrian-born American cartoonist and caricaturist who greatly influenced the growth of satirical cartooning in the United States.

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44. Frigyes Schulek

1841-1919 (aged 78)

Idist architect university teacher

Frigyes Schulek was a Hungarian architect, a professor at József Technical University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia).

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45. Vojtěch Hynais

1854-1925 (aged 71)

designer teacher graphic artist university teacher painter

Vojtěch Adalbert Hynais was a Czech painter, designer and graphics artist. He designed the curtain of the Prague National Theatre, decorated a number of buildings in Prague and Vienna, and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession. He was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1924.

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46. Franz Anton Maulbertsch

1724-1796 (aged 72)

teacher painter draftsperson graphic artist copper engraver

Franz Anton Maulbertsch was an Austrian painter and engraver, one of the most renowned exponents of Rococo painting in the German and Hungarian regions.

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47. Emil Wikström

1864-1942 (aged 78)

sculptor visual artist architect

Emil Wikström was a Finnish sculptor. Among his best known works are the Lyhdynkantajat ("Lantern Carriers") sculptures on the front of the Helsinki Central railway station and the monuments to Elias Lönnrot and Johan Vilhelm Snellman.

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48. Ludwig Deutsch

1855-1935 (aged 80)

painter

Ludwig Deutsch was a French painter of Austrian origin, who settled in Paris and became a noted Orientalist artist. Having studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1872 to 1875, he moved to Paris in 1878, where he became associated with other Orientalist painters. Most of his works were painted in his studio in Paris, but he had...

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49. Anton Janša

1734-1773 (aged 39)

teacher painter beekeeper zoologist entomologist

Anton Janša was a Carniolan apiarist and painter. Janša is known as a pioneer of modern apiculture and a great expert in the field. He was educated as a painter, but was employed as a teacher of apiculture at the Habsburg court in Vienna.

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50. Grim Natwick

1890-1990 (aged 100)

animator film director

Myron "Grim" Natwick was an American artist, cartoonist, animator, and film director. Natwick is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studios' most popular character, Betty Boop.

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51. Jan Styka

1858-1925 (aged 67)

illustrator painter

Jan Styka was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas. He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title L'ame de la Pologne (The Soul of Poland).

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52. Friedrich von Amerling

1803-1887 (aged 84)

painter

Friedrich Ritter von Amerling was an Austrian 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 the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century.

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53. Jan Kotěra

1871-1923 (aged 52)

university teacher designer pedagogue architect scenographer

Jan Kotěra was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer. He was one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia.

54. Josef Hlávka

1831-1908 (aged 77)

general contractor master builder politician entrepreneur architect

Josef Hlávka was an architect, builder, philanthropist and founder of the oldest foundation for sciences and arts in Bohemia.

55. Christian Griepenkerl

1839-1916 (aged 77)

university teacher painter teacher

Christian Griepenkerl was a German painter and professor, best known for rejecting Adolf Hitler's application to train at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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56. Joseph Lange

1751-1831 (aged 80)

painter conductor composer writer stage actor

Joseph Lange was an actor and amateur painter of the 18th century. Through his marriage to Aloysia Weber, he was the brother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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57. Frederick John Kiesler

1890-1965 (aged 75)

designer author lithographer architect writer

Frederick Jacob Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.

58. Anton Ažbe

1862-1905 (aged 43)

painter art educator

Anton Ažbe was a Slovene realist painter and teacher of painting. Ažbe, crippled since birth and orphaned at the age of eight, learned painting as an apprentice to Janez Wolf and at the Academies in Vienna and Munich. At the age of 30, Ažbe founded his own school of painting in Munich that became a popular attraction for Eastern European...

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59. Adolf Hölzel

1853-1934 (aged 81)

painter lithographer draftsperson art historian university teacher

Adolf Richard Hölzel was a German painter. He began as a Realist, but later became an early promoter of various Modern styles, including Abstractionism.

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60. Oton Iveković

1869-1939 (aged 70)

painter

Oton Iveković was a Croatian painter. A graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Iveković later taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He largely concerned himself with historical topics as well as some religious themes. Many of his paintings remain the chief representations of Croatian history.

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61. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

1794-1872 (aged 78)

painter draftsperson university teacher visual artist illustrator

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious art. He is remembered for his extensive Picture Bible, and his designs for stained glass windows in cathedrals.

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62. Johann Friedrich Overbeck

1789-1869 (aged 80)

painter poet draftsperson writer artist

Johann Friedrich Overbeck was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.

63. Maurycy Gottlieb

1856-1879 (aged 23)

painter

Maurycy Gottlieb was a Polish-Jewish realist painter of the Romantic period. Considered one of the most talented students of Jan Matejko, Gottlieb died at the age of 23.

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64. Rudolph Schindler

1887-1953 (aged 66)

architect

Rudolph Michael Schindler was an Austrian-born American architect whose most important works were built in or near Los Angeles during the early to mid-twentieth century.

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65. Moritz von Schwind

1804-1871 (aged 67)

university teacher painter illustrator draftsperson graphic artist

Moritz von Schwind 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 died in Pöcking in Bavaria, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich.

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66. Ephraim Moses Lilien

1874-1925 (aged 51)

exlibrist graphic artist painter publisher etcher

Maurycy "Ephraim Moses" Lilien was a Polish-Jewish Art Nouveau illustrator and printmaker particularly noted for his art on Jewish themes and his influence on the Bezalel school art movement. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist."

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67. Imre Steindl

1839-1902 (aged 63)

university teacher restorer architect

Imre Ferenc Károly Steindl was a Hungarian architect.

68. Gabriel von Max

1840-1915 (aged 75)

painter teacher pedagogue university teacher

Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian-German painter, and professor of history painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was also a collector of anthropological artifacts. His collection included between 60.000 and 80.000 objects from Zoology, Anthropology, Ethology, and Prehistory. The collection is displayed in the Reiss Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim.

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69. Paul Kammerer

1880-1926 (aged 46)

composer biologist university teacher herpetologist geneticist

Paul Kammerer was an Austrian biologist who studied evolutionary theory through the medium of investigation of the reproduction and development of amphibians. Although he is now known for advocating a form of Lamarckism, the theory that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics acquired in their lifetime, meaning variation would be directed towards creating adaptations, he considered himself a Darwinian...

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70. Alfred Hrdlicka

1928-2009 (aged 81)

printmaker university teacher painter sculptor chess player

Alfred Hrdlicka was an Austrian sculptor, painter, and professor. His surname is sometimes written Hrdlička.

71. Rudolf von Alt

1812-1905 (aged 93)

painter lithographer watercolorist draftsperson engraver

Rudolf Ritter von Alt was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he acquired the title of Ritter after being knighted in 1889.

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72. Franz West

1947-2012 (aged 65)

performing artist conceptual artist installation artist sculptor performance artist

Franz West was an Austrian artist.

73. Hans Hollein

1934-2014 (aged 80)

designer draftsperson sculptor professor jewelry designer

Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.

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74. Uroš Predić

1857-1953 (aged 96)

painter

Uroš Predić was a Serbian Realist painter. Along with Paja Jovanović and Đorđe Krstić, he is considered the most important Serbian painter of realism. Predić is best remembered for his early works, in which he depicted the "real" life of ordinary people. Later, he made a great contribution in church painting and portraits. Predić's opus includes a total of 1658...

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75. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

1793-1865 (aged 72)

painter teacher writer

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was an Austrian painter. Waldmüller was one of the most important Austrian painters of the Biedermeier period.

76. Richard Gerstl

1883-1908 (aged 25)

painter

Richard Gerstl 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 Mathilde Schoenberg, wife of composer Arnold Schoenberg, which led to Gerstl's suicide.

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77. Franz von Bayros

1866-1924 (aged 58)

draftsperson printmaker painter watercolorist illustrator

Franz von Bayros was an Austrian commercial artist, illustrator, and painter, best known for his controversial Tales at the Dressing Table portfolio. He belonged to the Decadent movement in art, often utilizing erotic themes and phantasmagoric imagery.

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78. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

1736-1783 (aged 47)

sculptor

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.

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79. Joseph Maria Olbrich

1867-1908 (aged 41)

designer architect jewelry designer

Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and one of the Vienna Secession founders.

80. Józef Mehoffer

1869-1946 (aged 77)

stained-glass artist teacher painter graphic artist decorator

Józef Mehoffer was a Polish painter and decorative artist, one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time.

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81. Maria Lassnig

1919-2014 (aged 95)

film director animator sculptor professor watercolorist

Maria Lassnig was an Austrian artist known for her painted self-portraits and her theory of "body awareness". In 1980, she became a professor for Painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she taught until her death. She was the first female artist to win the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1988 and was awarded the Austrian Decoration for...

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82. David Steindl-Rast

1926-. (aged 100)

psychologist non-fiction writer monk theologian

Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., is an Austrian-American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer. He is committed to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality and science.

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83. Mihály Munkácsy

1844-1900 (aged 56)

painter

Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

84. Josef Hoffmann

1870-1956 (aged 86)

sculptor architect jewelry designer interior designer teacher

Josef Hoffmann 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 Palace, in Brussels, (1905–1911) a pioneering work of Modern Architecture, Art Deco and peak of Vienna Secession architecture.

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85. Jože Plečnik

1872-1957 (aged 85)

university teacher teacher designer architect urban planner

Jože Plečnik was a Slovenian architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, most notably by designing the iconic Triple Bridge and the Slovenian National and University Library building, as well as the embankments along the Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljana Central Market buildings, the Ljubljana cemetery, parks, plazas....

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86. Peter Fendi

1796-1842 (aged 46)

painter caricaturist lithographer art collector illustrator

Peter Fendi was an Austrian court painter, portrait and genre painter, engraver, and lithographer. He was one of the leading artists of the Biedermeier period.

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87. Ernst Fuchs

1930-2015 (aged 85)

designer etcher ornamental sculptor watercolorist sculptor

Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. In 1972, he acquired the derelict Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which he restored and transformed. The villa was inaugurated as the Ernst Fuchs Museum in 1988.

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88. Arik Brauer

1929-2021 (aged 92)

dancer architect poet musician songwriter

Arik Brauer was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.

89. Koloman Moser

1868-1918 (aged 50)

opinion journalist jewelry designer painter architect postage stamp designer

Koloman Moser 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 Werkstätte.

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90. Hans Makart

1840-1884 (aged 44)

painter teacher architectural draftsperson

Hans Makart was an Austrian academic history painter, designer and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Germany, and other countries.

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91. Joseph Karl Stieler

1781-1858 (aged 77)

portrait painter painter

Joseph Karl Stieler was a German painter. From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter for the Bavarian kings. He is known for his Neoclassical portraits, especially for the Gallery of Beauties at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, as well as his emblematic portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven, which has become one of his most famous works.

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92. Paja Jovanović

1859-1957 (aged 98)

painter

Pavle "Paja" Jovanović was a Serbian realist painter. Jovanović painted more than 1,100 works including: The Wounded Montenegrin (1882), Decorating of the Bride (1886), The Takovo Uprising (1894), Migration of the Serbs (1896) and The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex (1900). As one of the best European painters of oriental scenes, Paja at the end of the 19th century turned...

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93. Ivan Meštrović

1883-1962 (aged 79)

university teacher teacher writer sculptor architect

Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavao Bilinić's Stone Workshop in Split and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was formed under the influence of the Secession. He traveled throughout Europe and studied the works...

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94. Egon Schiele

1890-1918 (aged 28)

photographer printmaker sculptor lithographer painter

Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele 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-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterise Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism. Gustav Klimt, a figurative painter...

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95. Friedensreich Hundertwasser

1928-2000 (aged 72)

draftsperson sculptor painter postage stamp designer architect

Friedrich Stowasser, better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser ( Austrian German: [ˈfriːdn̩sraɪç ˈreːɡn̩taːɡ ˈdʊŋkl̩bʊnt ˈhʊndɐtˌvasɐ]), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection. He emigrated to the Far North of New Zealand in the 1970s, where he lived and worked for most of the rest of his life.

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96. Eric Carle

1929-2021 (aged 92)

writer graphic designer children's writer illustrator

Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?....

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97. Otto Wagner

1841-1918 (aged 77)

architectural draftsperson architect university teacher urban planner

Otto Koloman Wagner 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 movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. His early works were inspired...

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98. František Kupka

1871-1957 (aged 86)

graphic artist Czechoslovak legionary university teacher painter teacher

František Kupka was a Czech painter and illustrator who moved from realism to abstract art, pioneering Orphism.

99. Teresa Präauer

1979-. (aged 47)

painter illustrator writer

Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.

100. Erwin Wurm

1954-. (aged 72)

draftsperson university teacher photojournalist installation artist sculptor

Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria; Hydra, Greece; and in New York City.