Complete List of Female Pioneers in Architecture
204 women received architectural education in Vienna between 1913 and 1937/1938 A total of 204 women who studied architecture in Vienna between 1913 and 1937/1938 were surveyed, 93 of them at the School of Arts and Crafts, 103 at the Technical University and 16 at the Academy of Fine Arts. These figures include both women […]
Martha Bolldorf-Reitstätter
Birth name: Reitstätter
Other names: married Bolldorf von Grazigna
Born: 18. February 1912, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary
Died: 13 June 2001, Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education
1926: Internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Clemens Holzmeister
1930- 34: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as the first regular student in the master class of Clemens Holzmeister
Ella Briggs
Birth name: Baumfeld
Other names: Briggs-Baumfeld
Born: 5 March 1880 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: 2 June 1977, Enfield, Middlesex, Great Britain
Religion: Mosaic, from about 1918 Protestant
Emigration: 1936 to London, GB
Education
3 years art school for women and girls
1901-1906 Kunstgewerbeschule Wien, painting class with Koloman Moser
1916-1918 Technische Hochschule Wien, as guest student
1918-1919 Staatsrealschule Salzburg
1918-1920 Technische Hochschule München, graduation with diploma main examination
Waltraud Blauensteiner
Birth name: Vogel
Born: 25 September 1906, Wigstadtl, Silesia, Austria-Hungary
Died: unknown
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education
1925 – 1929: University of Vienna, Art History
1929 – 1933: Technische Hochschule Wien, Architecture
Hermine Frühwirth
Birth name: Frühwirth
Born: 30 March 1909, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: 11 April 1991, Vienna, Austria
Religion: Roman Catholic, resigned
Education
1928-1933 Technische Hochschule Wien, Architecture
1933-1935 Technische Hochschule, Art History Department with Prof. Moritz Dreger
Helene Koller-Buchwieser
Birth name: Buchwieser
Other names: 1st marriage: Kitschelt, 2nd marriage: Koller
Born: 26 November 1912, Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: 4 March 2008, Hinterbrühl, Lower Austria
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education
1932 – 1933 apprenticeship as a bricklayer
1932 – 1937 Technische Hochschule Wien, major in Architecture
Friederike Niedermoser
Birth name: Domnosil
Born: 13 October 1904, Vienna, Austria
Died: 24 October 2000, Vienna
Religion: Roman Catholic
Education
1919 – 1922 Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna
1922 – 1925 Kunstgewerbeschule, Architecture class of Prof. Oskar Strnad
Leonie Pilewski-Karlsson
Birth name: Pilewska
Other names: Pilewski, Karlsson
Born: 22 February 1897 Winniki, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died: 1992, Stockholm, Sweden
Religion: Mosaic
Emigration: 1938 to Sweden
Education
1915-1916 Technische Hochschule Wien, ‘listener‘, Descriptive Geometry
1915-1917 University of Vienna, Faculty of Philosophy, study of Chemistry
1917 Technische Hochschule Wien, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, guest student
1917-1918 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Mechanical Engineering
1918-1922 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Structural Engineering/Architecture
Eugenie Pippal-Kottnig
Birth name: Kottnig
Born: 10 January 1921, Anscher, Grube, USSR
Died: 21 July 1998, Vienna
Religion: Russian Orthodox, then Roman Catholic
Education
1935 – 1940 Kunstgewerbeschule Wien, Architecture class Prof. Franz Schuster
Lilia Skala
Birth name: Sofer
Other names: married Polak-Sofer, in the USA: Skala
Born: 28 November 1896 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died: 18 December 1994, Long Island, New York, USA
Religion: Roman Catholic
Emigration: 1939 to the USA, with her family
Education
1915-1920 Technische Hochschule Dresden, Structural Engineering department, 10 semesters
1920/21 Kunstgewerbeschule Wien, Architecture class of Oskar Strnad, guest student 1 semester