The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school of higher education in Vienna, Austria.
Wolfgang Hutter was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer. Hutter's imagery is characterised by an artificial paradise of gardens and fantastical fairytale-like scenes. His work is said to have been influenced by his psychedelic experiences.
Olga Wisinger-Florian was an Austrian impressionist painter, mainly of landscapes and flower still life. She was a representative of the Austrian "Stimmungsimpressionismus", a loose group of Austrian impressionist painters that was considered avant-garde in the 1870s and 1880s.
Arik Brauer was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer-songwriter, stage designer, architect, and academic teacher.
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 University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".
Walter Womacka was a German Socialist Realist artist. His work was pioneering early German Democratic Republic (GDR) aesthetics.
A Kunstgewerbeschule was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for these schools. From the 1920s and after World War II, most of them either merged into universities or closed, although some continued until the 1970s.
Josef Danhauser was an Austrian painter, one of the main artists of Biedermeier period, together with Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi, among others. His works, not very appreciated in his time, dealt with very moralising subjects and had a clear influence of William Hogarth.
Hubert Maurer was a German painter, graphic artist and art professor.
Ludwig Hans Fischer was an Austrian landscape painter, copper engraver, etcher and ethnologist. He was noted for his paintings of Oriental subjects, especially African and Indian women wearing traditional costume.
Peter A. Bruck is CEO and Chief Researcher of the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH and founder of the spin-off KnowledgeFox. Bruck is also honorary President of the ICNM-International Center for New Media, Salzburg, which selects and promotes best practice in ICT applications and multimedia contents nationally in Austria, at the European level and globally under auspices of the United Nations. Chairman of the Board the European Academy of Digital Media-EADiM, Netherlands, Chairman of the Board of Directors the World Summit Award within the framework of the United Nations process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and President of the European Academy of MicroLearning (Austria)
Theodor Hörmann von Hörbach was an Austrian landscape painter.
Edmund Ritter von Hellmer, born Edmund Hellmer and ennobled in 1912, was an Austrian sculptor who worked in the styles of Historicism and Art Nouveau.
Bernhard Cella is an Austrian artist and curator.
Rudolf Otto von Ottenfeld was an Austrian military painter, a founding member of the Vienna Secession and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.
Heimo Zobernig is an Austrian artist who works in a variety of media from painting and sculpture to site specific installation and design.
Johannes Benk was an Austrian monumental sculptor.
Friedrich Schilcher was an Austrian portrait, genre, and history painter, and decorative designer.
Ludwig Michalek was an Austrian portrait painter, graphic artist and copper engraver.
