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FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

Focus


It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

2024/06/18 - 2025/01/05
Vienna Furniture Museum
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
included in museum admission

FROM HER: FURNITURE BY WOMEN

It was not until the twentieth century that women in Austria gradually gained access to higher artistic and technical studies, opening up opportunities for independent employment as architects, craftswomen and designers.

On the gallery of the Vienna Furniture Museum you can see exhibits by female designers from the interwar period to the present day.

The works are by:

  • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897 - 2000)
  • Anna-Lülja Praun (1906 - 2004)
  • Eva Riedl (1931 - 1996)
  • Heidemarie Leitner (*1944)
  • Luisa Wammes (*1960)
  • Ursula Klingan (*1963)
  • Tina Lehner (*1968)
  • Nin Prantner (*1971)
  • POLKA Designstudio (Marie Rahm, *1975 und Monica Singer, *1975)
  • Kathrina Dankl (*1981) und Lisa Elena Hampel-Plasser (*1981)
  • Lisa Stolz (*1988)
  • Dóra Medveczky (*1990)

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