Margarete Sch%C3%BCtte Lihotzky

Margarete Grete SchtteLihotzky was the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Nazi resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the socalled Frankfurt kitchen.

Margarete Lihotzky was bornJanuary 1897 into a bourgeois family in Vienna. The daughter of a liberalminded civil servant whose pacifist tendencies made him welcome the end of the Habsburg Empire and the founding of the republic in 1918, Lihotzky became the first female student at the Kunstgewerbeschule , where renowned artists such as Josef Hoffmann, Anton Hanak or Oskar Kokoschka were teaching. Lihotzky almost did not get in. Her mother persuaded a close friend to ask the famous artist Gustav Klimt for a letter of recommendation. In 1997, celebrating her 100th birthday and reminiscing about her then decision to study architecture, she remarked that in 1916 no one would have conceived of a woman being commissioned to build a house not even myself.

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