1. Egon Schiele (1890)

Austrian Artist

Austrian Expressionist painter known for his dramatic sketches and self-portraits. His best-known works included "Seated Woman with Bent Knee," "Death and Maiden," and "The Family." He was considered one of...

2. Valie Export (1940)

Austrian Artist

Multimedia artist whose best known works included socio-politically themed installations and performance-art pieces.

3. Franz West (1947)

Austrian Artist

Austrian sculptor who created the work The Ego and the Id and won the Otto Mauer-Preis award in 1986.

4. Franz Rosei (1947)

Austrian Artist

Austrian sculptor and draughtsman who works with a variety of materials, including marble, limestone, and bronze.

5. Stefan Sagmeister (1962)

Austrian Artist

Graphic designer behind Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. with Jessica Walsh. He has designed album covers for musicians like Lou Reed, OK Go, and The Rolling Stones. 

6. Hana Usui (1974)

Austrian Artist

Hana Usui is a Japanese artist. Hana Usui was born in Tokyo in 1974 and studied art history at Waseda University and Japanese calligraphy. In 2000 she moved to Vienna...

7. Maria Bach (1896)

Austrian Artist

Emilie Marie Baroness von Bach was an Austrian pianist violinist composer and artist.

8. Carola Unterberger-Probst (1978)

Austrian Artist

Carola Unterberger-Probst aka or Carola Unterberger is an internationally known Austrian media artist and philosopher of art. In addition to video installations and experimental films her work contains Objet d'art...

9. Deborah Sengl (1974)

Austrian Artist

Deborah Sengl is an Austrian painter and artist. She attended the University of Applied Arts Vienna and received a diploma in 1997. Sengl is the daughter of the painter Peter...

10. Sacha Kolin (1911)

Austrian Artist

Sacha Kolin was an artist of the mid-20th century. Kolin was born in Paris on May 9 1911 to Ukrainian Jews Julius and Malwina Kolin. She spent parts of her...

11. Alma Mahler (1879)

Austrian Artist

Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife successively of composer Gustav Mahler architect Walter...

12. Werner Schwab (1958)

Austrian Artist

Schwab was an Austrian playwright and visual artist.

13. Arnulf Rainer (1929)

Austrian Artist

Arnulf Rainer is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. In his early years Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950 he founded the Hundsgruppe...

14. Robert Hammerstiel (1933)

Austrian Artist

Robert Hammerstiel is an Austrian painter and engraver. Hammerstiel is internationally recognized through numerous awards. He is also a Honorary member of the Vojvodinian Academy of Sciences and Art. He...

15. Rosina Wachtmeister (1940)

Austrian Artist

Rosina Wachtmeister is an Austrian artist maker of for instance cat sculptures and portraits. Her Das Lied von der Liebe is a book whose graphics illustrate the biblical Song of...

16. Christian Attersee (Unknow)

Austrian Artist

Christian Ludwig Attersee is an Austrian artist.

17. Renate Bertlmann (1943)

Austrian Artist

Renate Bertlmann is an Austrian artist.

18. Thomas Reinhold (artist) (Unknow)

Austrian Artist

Thomas Reinhold is an Austrian painter one of the initiators of so-called “New Painting”.

19. Gottfried Helnwein (1948)

Austrian Artist

Gottfried Helnwein is an Austrian born Austrian-Irish fine artist painter photographer installation and performance artist.

20. Elmar Peintner (1954)

Austrian Artist

Elmar Peintner is an Austrian contemporary artist. Peintner lives and works in Imst Tyrol Austria.

21. Erwin Wurm (Unknow)

Austrian Artist

Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg Austria. Since the late 1980s he has...

22. Otto Zitko (1959)

Austrian Artist

Otto Zitko is an Austrian artist who lives and works in Vienna.

23. Ulrike Müller (1971)

Austrian Artist

Ulrike Müller is an artist born in Brixlegg Austria in 1971. Mülller's practice has been described as addressing contemporary feminist and Genderqueer concerns extending from the feminist movements of the...

24. Helmut Lang (artist) (1956)

Austrian Artist

Helmut Lang is an Austrian artist who lives and works in New York and on Long Island. When he was five months old Lang's parents divorced and sent him to...

25. Josef Bauer (artist) (1934)

Austrian Artist

Josef Bauer is an Austrian artist.

26. Arik Brauer (1929)

Austrian Artist

Arik Brauer is an Austrian painter draughtsman printmaker poet dancer singer and stage designer. He resides in Vienna and Ein Hod Israel. Brauer is a co-founder of the Vienna School...

27. Siegfried L. Kratochwil (1916)

Austrian Artist

Siegfried Leopold Kratochwil was an Austrian painter and poet. Born in Karlstift Lower Austria he later moved to Vienna and became one of the best-known Austrian Naïve artists by the...

28. Krayem Awad (Unknow)

Austrian Artist

Krayem Maria Awad is a Vienna-based painter sculptor and poet of Syrian origin. He was born in Basir and later moved to Austria where he studied from 1968 telecommunications engineering...

29. Wolfgang Paalen (1905)

Austrian Artist

gang Paalen was an Austrian-Mexican painter and theorist.

30. Roberta Lima (1974)

Austrian Artist

Roberta Lima is an Austrian-based video and performance artist. Roberta Lima studied Architecture and Urban Planning at Unisinos in southern Brazil and then went on to complete her graduate studies...

31. Mercedes Helnwein (1979)

Austrian Artist

Mercedes Helnwein is an artist writer and filmmaker. Her father is Austro-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein. She and her brothers Cyril Ali and Wolfgang Amadeus often modeled for their father's work...

32. Martina Schettina (1961)

Austrian Artist

Martina Schettina is an Austrian artist.