Marianne Hitschmann-Steinberger (Austrian, 1877 - 1919)
Marianne Hitschmann-Steinberger (Austrian, 1877 - 1919)
Marianne Hitschmann-Steinberger (Austrian, 1877 - 1919)
Marianne Hitschmann-Steinberger was an Austrian Jewish artist who studied with Adolf Böhm and Friedrich König (both members of the Vienna Secession). She is mainly known as bookplate (ex libris) artist and illustrator of children’s books and postcards. In 1919 she died at the age of 32 of pneumonia in the flu pandemic, followed three days later by the death of her husband.