32 Notable alumni of University of Applied Arts Vienna
Updated: May 26, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of Applied Arts Vienna is ranked #2,949 in the world and #23 in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from University of Applied Arts Vienna sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of Applied Arts Vienna won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Irma Komlosy
1850-1919 (aged 69)
painter
artist
Maria Johanna "Irma" Komlosy was an Austrian painter known for her flower painting.
2. Moshe Ziffer
1902-1989 (aged 87)
artist
sculptor
Moshe Ziffer was an Israeli artist and sculptor.
3. Friedrich König
1857-1941 (aged 84)
painter
graphic designer
graphic artist
illustrator
Friedrich König was an Austrian painter, illustrator and designer.
4. Marie Müller
1847-1935 (aged 88)
painter
Marie Müller was an Austrian portrait painter.
5. Naomi Devil
1987-. (aged 39)
graphic designer
painter
Naomi Devil, originally Noémi Anna Ördög, is a Hungarian painter and graphic designer.
6. Michaela Konrad
1972-. (aged 54)
illustrator
artist
Michaela Konrad is an Austrian illustrator and artist.
7. Pepi Weixlgärtner-Neutra
1886-1981 (aged 95)
sculptor
painter
graphic artist
Josephine Therese Weixlgärtner-Neutra (born 19 January 1886 in Vienna – died 1981 in Gothenburg) was an Austrian-Swedish artist, who concentrated on graphic design, painting, sculpture and enamelwork.
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8. Louise Fraenkel-Hahn
1878-1939 (aged 61)
painter
exlibrist
graphic artist
Louise Fraenkel-Hahn was an Austrian painter and founding member of the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs.
9. Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich
1903-1985 (aged 82)
children's writer
painter
writer
Bettina Ehrlich, née Bauer, was an Austrian painter and illustrator of children's books, many of which she also wrote. She lived briefly in Berlin and Paris, and from 1938 in England.
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10. Martina Schettina
1961-. (aged 65)
painter
sculptor
Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist. The main part of her work is Mathematical art.
11. Mara Mattuschka
1959-. (aged 67)
cinematographer
film editor
film producer
actor
screenwriter
Mara Mattuschka is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.
12. Ulrike Müller
1971-. (aged 55)
draftsperson
artist
Ulrike Müller is a contemporary visual artist. Müller is a member of the New York-based feminist genderqueer group LTTR as well as an editor of its eponymous journal. She also represented Austria at the Cairo Biennale in 2011. She is currently a professor and co-chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in...
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13. Rainer Ganahl
1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher
performance artist
video artist
artist
photographer
Rainer Ganahl is an Austrian-American conceptual artist who lives and works in New York. His work has been widely exhibited, including the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; the Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany; and the 48th Venice Biennale. He is the subject and author of several published catalogues, among them, Reading Karl Marx...
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14. Maria Dulębianka
1861-1919 (aged 58)
writer
painter
social activist
opinion journalist
Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.
15. Thomas Spitzer
1953-. (aged 73)
graphic designer
guitarist
composer
lyricist
songwriter
Thomas Spitzer is an Austrian lyricist, composer, singer, guitarist and graphic designer. He is a founding member the band Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (EAV), whose lyrics, album artwork and illustrations come almost exclusively from him.
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16. Ernst Klimt
1864-1892 (aged 28)
painter
Ernst Klimt was an Austrian history painter and decorative painter. He was a younger brother of the better-known artist Gustav Klimt.
17. Hannes Hegen
1925-2014 (aged 89)
graphic designer
comics artist
caricaturist
illustrator
author
Hannes Hegen was a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.
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18. Julya Rabinowich
1970-. (aged 56)
author
troll
writer
translator
playwright
Julya Rabinowich (Russian: Юля Борисовна Рабинович; born 1970 in Leningrad, (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) is an Austrian author, playwright, painter and translator. In 1977 her family emigrated to Vienna, a move in which she describes herself as having been “uprooted and re-potted.”
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19. Michael Powolny
1871-1954 (aged 83)
ceramicist
sculptor
designer
teacher
Michael Powolny was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, ceramist, designer, and teacher.
20. Nikolay Diulgheroff
1901-1982 (aged 81)
designer
painter
architect
Nikolay Diulgheroff was a Bulgarian artist, designer and architect who was active in Italy as a prominent representative of interwar Italian Futurism (il secondo Futurismo).
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21. Michael Breidenbruecker
1972-. (aged 54)
businessperson
Michael Breidenbrücker is an Austrian entrepreneur, artist and engineer. He is best known as a co-founder of Last.fm, a founder of RjDj and a partner at the venture firm Speedinvest. He has worked with musical artists such as Hans Zimmer, Imogen Heap, Air and Booka Shade. In 2011, he produced Inception The App with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer, which...
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22. Kurdwin Ayub
1990-. (aged 36)
film director
screenwriter
Kurdwin Ayub or Kurdvîn Eyûb is a Kurdish-Austrian filmmaker. Her feature film debut Sonne (Sun) was awarded the Best First Film Award at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.
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23. Pola Stout
1902-1984 (aged 82)
textile designer
weaver
interior designer
Josefine Pola Stout was an American designer best known for creating fine woolen fabrics. Born in Stryi, she studied with Josef Hoffmann at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Vienna, and designed for the Wiener Werkstätte before she immigrated to the United States in 1925 with her first husband, architect and designer Wolfgang Hoffmann. Wolfgang and Pola Hoffmann became a prominent interior...
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24. Thekla
1993-. (aged 33)
professional wrestler
Thekla Kaischauri, better known mononymously as Thekla (Japanese: テクラ, Hepburn: Tekura), is an Austrian professional wrestler. She is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where she is the current AEW Women's World Champion in her first reign and a member of the Triangle of Madness stable. She is also known for her time in World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she...
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25. Gustav Klimt
1862-1918 (aged 56)
draftsperson
architectural draftsperson
graphic artist
painter
exlibrist
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe. Klimt is known for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Amongst his figurative works, which include...
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26. Oskar Kokoschka
1886-1980 (aged 94)
university teacher
illustrator
draftsperson
graphic artist
artist
Oskar Kokoschka CBE was an Austrian (though, at times during his long life, he had also Czech and British citizenship) artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.
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27. Adolf Loos
1870-1933 (aged 63)
writer
architect
art theorist
essayist
photographer
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, polemicist of modern architecture. He was inspired by modernism and a widely-known critic of the Art Nouveau movement. His controversial views and literary contributions sparked the establishment of the Vienna Secession movement and postmodernism.
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28. Ludwig Hirsch
1946-2011 (aged 65)
actor
radio personality
singer-songwriter
film actor
songwriter
Ludwig Gustav Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.
29. Stefan Sagmeister
1962-. (aged 64)
graphic designer
designer
installation artist
typographer
illustrator
Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer based in New York City. In 1993, Sagmeister founded his company, Sagmeister Inc., to create designs for the music industry. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith, Talking Heads, Brian Eno and Pat Metheny. From 2011 until 2019 he...
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30. Pipilotti Rist
1962-. (aged 64)
installation artist
sculptor
visual artist
television producer
light artist
Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist, birth name Elisabeth Charlotte Rist is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female body.
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31. 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.
32. Thomas Steiner
1956-. (aged 70)
painter
television actor
film director
actor
Thomas Steiner, is an Austrian experimental film director of short films, and painter.