Born in Vienna in 1882, the painter and graphic artist Maria Zeiller-Uchatius first studied at the drawing school of the Wiener Frauen-Erwerb-Verein and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien under Felician Myrbach, Friedrich Linke, Rudolf von Larisch and Carl Otto Czeschka. Her style was composed of influences from the Vienna Secession and Japonism. She illustrated magazines, such as "Der liebe Augustin" (1904) and designed toys, as well as decorative papers. From 1907 she taught at the art and carving school in Sankt Ulrich in the Grödnertal, where she met her future husband, Ottmar Zeiller, with whom she eventually made wooden toys. Her works were exhibited, among others, at the Vienna Art Show in 1908 and 110 years later at the Lower Belvedere, Vienna in the exhibition "City of Women. Women Artists in Vienna 1900-1938".