Culture
Famous Artists from Austria
List of the most popular artists from Austria, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries artists have been among the world's most important people, helping chronicle history and keep us entertained with one of the earliest forms of entertainment. Whether they're known for painting, sculpting, etching or drawing, the famous Austrian artists on this list have kept that tradition alive by creating renowned pieces of art that have been praised around the world. You can find useful information below about these notable Austrian artists, such as when they were born and where their place of birth was.
Artists here include everyone from Wilhelm J. Burger to Josef Eduard Teltscher.
This list answers the questions, "Which famous artists are from Austria?" and "Who are the most well-known Austrian artists?"
For further information on these historic Austrian artists, click on their names. If you're a fine art lover use this list of celebrated Austrian artists to discover some new paintings that you will enjoy.- Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, Woman with a Daffodil, Girl with a White Dog
- Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
- Associated periods or movements: Contemporary art, Realism, Realism, Surrealism, Expressionism
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Art Forms: Painting
Lucian Michael Freud, OM (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was ...more - Denken, Der rote Blick, Blue Self-Portrait
- Birthplace: Vienna, Leopoldstadt, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Der Blaue Reiter
- Nationality: Austria, United States of America
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, US also ; German: [ˈʃøːnbɛɐ̯k] (listen); 13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian, and later American, composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and ...more - Chair
- Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
- Nationality: Austria, United States of America
Richard Joseph Neutra was an American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered among the most important modernist architects. - Portrait of Edith Schiele In A Striped Dress, Self Portrait with Black Vase, Self-Portrait
- Birthplace: Tulln an der Donau, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Expressionism, Vienna Secession
- Nationality: Austria, Czech Republic
- Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
Egon Schiele (German: [ˈʃiːlə] (listen); 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work ...more - The Kiss, Danaë, Beethoven Frieze
- Birthplace: Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Art Nouveau, Symbolist literature, Vienna Secession
- Nationality: Austrian Empire
- Art Forms: Painting
- The Card Cheat, Vathek, Water Spirit
- Birthplace: Severozápad, Litoměřice, Czech Republic
- Associated periods or movements: Expressionism, Symbolist literature
- Nationality: Austria
- Art Forms: Painting
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and ...more - Globulant, Autofahrer in der Nacht, Rain of Blood Dropping into Japanese Waters in an Austrian Garden
- Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
- Nationality: Austria, New Zealand
Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist and architect. Born Friedrich Stowasser in Vienna, he became one of the best-known contemporary Austrian artists by the end of ...more - Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegfried George Hackenschmied, known later as Alexander Hammid (17 December 1907, Linz – 26 July 2004, New York City) was a Czech-American photographer, film ...more
- Beautiful Victim, Mouse I, Head of a Child
- Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Hyperrealism, Installation art
- Nationality: Republic of Ireland, Austria
- Art Forms: Photography, Installation art, Painting
Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide ...more - Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (born 2 February 1959 in Mexico City as Hubertus Rudolph zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg; Spanish pronunciation: [uˈβeɾt̪us ruˈðolf su oẽnˈloe.lãŋxẽmˈbuɾɣ]) is a ...more
- For the political scientist, see Ernst B. Haas and for Swiss rower see Ernst Haas (rower).Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color ...more
- Self-Portrait, Doctor Emma Veronika Sanders, Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat
- Birthplace: Pöchlarn, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Expressionism, Vienna Secession
- Nationality: Austria
- Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. - Self-Portrait, Portrait of Lady Louisa Leveson-Gower, Ferdinand IV
- Birthplace: Chur, Switzerland
- Associated periods or movements: Neoclassicism
- Nationality: Austria
- Art Forms: Painting
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann (30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. ...more - The timeguards, Danceperformence Hauptplatz Linz, photo sculpture
- Birthplace: Haslach an der Mühl, Austria
- Nationality: Austria
- Art Forms: Sculpture
Manfred "KILI" Kielnhofer (born January 28, 1967 in Haslach an der Mühl) is an Austrian painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. - Paul Flora (6 June 1922 – 15 May 2009) is known for his black ink line drawings. "Flora was one of Europe’s most profiled illustrators since the 1960s. He worked for British newspapers The Times and ...more
- Nine Lives (Aerosmith album, cover art), OK Go (cover art)
- Birthplace: Bregenz, Austria
- Nationality: Austria
Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962 in Bregenz, Austria) is a New York-based graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer. Sagmeister co-founded a design firm called Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. with ...more - Flagpole Painter, Transvestite in Paddy Wagon, Woman
- Birthplace: Zolochiv, Ukraine
- Nationality: Austria, United States of America, Austria-Hungary
- Art Forms: Photography
Arthur (Usher) Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), known by his pseudonym Weegee, was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography in New York ...more - Peter Weibel (German: [ˈvaɪbəl]; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual ...more
- Etude d'expression (Study of Expression)
- Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
- Associated periods or movements: Dada
- Nationality: Austria
- Art Forms: Collage
Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional ...more - Friedrich von Schmidt was an architect who worked in late 19th century Vienna. Von Schmidt was born in Frickenhofen, Gschwend, Württemberg, Germany. After studying at the technical high school in ...more
- Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (ennobled in 1900; 23 August 1840 – 24 November 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter.
- Martin Arnold (born 1959 in Vienna, Austria) is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive deconstruction of found footage. Arnold's films are intensely cut sequences in which several seconds ...more
- Albert Schickedanz was an Austro-Hungarian architect and painter in the Eclectic style. Schickedanz was born in Biala, Galicia, to an ethnic German family. He studied at his home town and at ...more
- Othmar Schimkowitz (2 October 1864 in Tárts, Komárom County – 24 April 1947 in Graz) was a Hungarian-born architectural sculptor who worked on the greatest landmarks of the Vienna Secession.
- Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 13 April 1945) was a prominent art nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was one of the artists of the Vienna Secession who ...more
