Who influenced the style of the Wiener Werkstätte (WW) from the moment it was founded in 1903? Names that immediately come to mind are those of the great male artists Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche. Yet, from the outset, women artists were also involved in the WW’s creations. Their number grew constantly until the company’s liquidation in 1932, and especially in the interwar years Mathilde Flögl, Maria Likarz, Felice Rix, or Vally Wieselthier defined the look of the WW with fantastic fabric patterns and expressive ceramics. In the course of our research, about 180 female artists were identified and approximately half of these are represented in this exhibition.
Educated at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and employed at the WW by Hoffmann, the women designed fabrics, fashion, home accessories, toys, and commercial art and, in addition, also took over the field of ceramics where they were able to work purely artistically. Furthermore, they also developed exceptional murals for interiors—be it flats, restaurants, or exhibition spaces. Although highly recognized at their time, the women artists were mostly forgotten after the end of the WW. The catalog and exhibition want to give them a face and raise awareness for an oeuvre that was involved in constituting the unique position of the Wiener Werkstätte between Art Nouveau and Bauhaus.
Curator: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Guest Curator: Elisabeth Schmuttermeier
Exhibition Design: Claudia Cavallar, Lukas Lederer
WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE
Martha Alber • Mea Angerer • Adele Appoyer • Hilda Ascher • Gudrun Baudisch • Eilfriede Berbalk • Fritzi Berger • Helene Bernatzik • Ilse Bernheimer • Margret Bilger • Charlotte Billwiller • Camilla Birke • Else Birnbacher • Emilie Bittner • Irene Blahy • Grete Blatny • Edith Blau • Hilde Blumberger • Nelly Brabetz • Gertrud Brandt • Maria Vera Brunner • Hertha Bucher • Lotte Calm • Hedwig Denk • Mizzi Donin • Lida Doxat • Brunhilde Dreher • Alice Ehmann • Christa Ehrlich • Lucie Fell • Karoline/Lotte Fink • Alice Fischer • Else Flech • Mathilde Flögl • Gertrude Foges • Beatrix Foltin • Marie Freund • Olga Freund • Eva Frieberger • Mizi Friedmann • Lotte Frömel-Fochler • Helene Gabler • Hermine Ginzkey • Ella Graf • Gabriele Hackl • Marie Händler • F. J. Häsel • Lilly Hahn • Lotte Hahn • Margarete Hamerschlag • Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka • Bianca Hausig • Irene v. Herget • Clara Herzig • Heddi Hirsch • Leopoldine Hirsch • Maria Hochstetter • Gertrud Höchsmann • Maria Josefa Hödl • Ingrid Ipsen • Sofie Iszkowska • Lilly Jacker • Lilly Jacobsen • Hede Jahn • Hilda Jesser • Helene John • Maria Jungwirth • Margarete Kempf • Adalberta Kiessewetter • Annalise Knapp • Olga Kneiser • Mela Koehler • Leopoldine Kolbe • Erna Kopriva • Valentine Kovačič • Eva Kowarcz • Rose Krenn • Lisa Kümmel • Dina Kuhn • Helene Kurz • Klara Kuthe • Frieda Lagus • Elisabeth Leisching • Marianne Leisching • Anna Lesznai • Maria Likarz • Lizzy Lindner • Melitta Löffler • Fritzi Löw • Marta Loewin • Kató Lukáts • Elena Luksch-Makowsky • Lydia Lunaczek • Paula Lustig • Grete Luzzatto • Louise Eleonore Maaß • Maria Makasy • Valerie Mautzka • Ella Max • Grete May • Maria Mayreder • Johanna Meier-Michel • Gabi Möschl • Ditha Moser • Antonie Mutter • Grete Neuwalder • Gertrude Neuwirth • Rosa Neuwirth • Emilie Niedenführ • Amalie Nowotny • Erna Pamberger • Marianne Perlmutter • Valerie Petter • Camilla Peyrer • Angela Piotrowska • Josefine Podboy • Minka Podhajská • Klara Posnanski • Fritzi Pracht • Maria Pranke • Carmela Prati • Erna Putz • Hertha Ramsauer • Grete Reichle • Margarete Reinold • Felice Rix • Kitty Rix • Anna Rothziegel • Emmy Rothziegel • Ena Rottenberg • Marta Ruben • Juliana Ryšavy • Margarete Sattler • Susanne Sautter • Reni Schaschl • Ilse Schenk • Anna Schmedes • Hedwig Schmidl • Else Schmidt • Maria Schober • Gabriele Schramm-Brisker • Mizzi Schreiner • Anny Schröder • Ida Schwetz-Lehmann • Jutta Sika • Emilie Simandl • Susi Singer • Julia Sitte • Olga Sitte • Camilla Sodoma • Marie Sorer • Luise Spannring • Grete Sperl • Agnes Speyer • Marie Stadlmayer • Eva Stammbusch • Elli Stoi • Luise Stoll • Else Stübchen-Kirchner • Dora Suppantschitsch • Amalie Szeps • Melanie Taussig • Alice Teichtner • Maria Tlusty • Therese Trethan • Maria Trinkl • Emilie Vogelmayer • Mizzi Vogl • Emma Wabak • Getrud Weinberger • Hermine Weiss • Christine Weißenberg • Marie Weißenberg • Vally Wieselthier • Hanna Wintersteiner • Anny Wirth • Marie Wohlmann • Grete Wolf • Marianne Zels • Nora Zuckerkandl • Emmy Zweybrück
![<BODY><div>MAK Exhibition View, 2021</div><div>WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE</div><div>in the front: Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Johanna Staude (dressed in an item of clothing made from the WW fabric [Leaves] by Martha Alber), 1917/18</div><div>MAK Exhibition Hall</div><div>© MAK/Georg Mayer</div><div> </div></BODY>](/jart/prj3/mak-resp/images/cache/7b7982b0e9a4db00244ebebda9307711/0x118EB4A2FCB09B3132F9544F35FEB12B.jpeg)
