Constantin RosenthalConstantin Daniel Rosenthal (Hungarian: Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820 - July 22, 1851) was a Hungarian-born painter and 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects. |
Rosa MayrederRosa Mayreder (30 November 1858, Vienna - 19 January 1938, Vienna) was an Austrian freethinker, author, painter, musician and feminist. She was the daughter of Franz Arnold Obermayer, a wealthy restaurant operator and barkeeper, and his second wife Marie. |
Alma Maria Mahler-WerfelAlma Maria Mahler-Werfel (nee Schindler) (August 31, 1879 - December 11, 1964) was noted in her native Vienna for her beauty and intelligence. In her youth she was an aspiring composer. She was the wife, successively, of one of the century's leading composers (Gustav Mahler), architects (Walter Gropius), and novelists (Franz Werfel) and lover to the painter Oskar Kokoschka. |
Joseph Emanuel Fischer von ErlachJoseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach, also Fischer von Erlach the younger (13 September 1693 in Vienna; 29 June 1742 ebenda) was an Austrian architect of the baroque, Rococo and baroque classicism. |
Aloys WachAloys Wach or Aloys Ludwig Wachelmayr (sometimes Wachelmeier) was an Austrian expressionist painter and graphic artist. He was born in Lambach, Upper Austria on April 30, 1892 and died in Braunau, Upper Austria on April 18, 1940. While his birth places him close to the generation that laid the foundations of modern art and especially expressionism, his life as an artist, however, began after cubism, futurism and the expressionists of the Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke movements had initiated a time of great changes. |
Harry SeidlerHarry Seidler, AC OBE (June 25, 1923 Vienna - March 9, 2006 Sydney) 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 Bauhaus in Australia. |
Moritz von SchwindMoritz von Schwind (1804-1871), Austrian painter, was born in Vienna. He received rudimentary training and led a joyous careless life in that capital; among his companions was the composer Schubert, whose songs he illustrated. In 1828 he moved to Munich, and had the advantage of the friendship of the painter Schnorr and the guidance of Cornelius, then director of the academy. |
Margarete Schütte-LihotzkyMargarete Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897 - January 18, 2000) was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazi resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called Frankfurt Kitchen. |
Rudolf SchindlerRudolf Michael Schindler (1887 1953) was an Austrian-American architect who worked in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. He is often associated with the fringes of the modern movement in architecture, but although he worked and trained with some of its foremost practitioners, his inventive use of complex three dimensional forms, warm materials, striking colors, and tight budgets have placed him as one of the true mavericks of 20th century architecture. His work mostly escaped widespread publication during his lifetime, but has developed a critical resurgence since the 1980s. |
