Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
| Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky | |
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January 23, 1897 Vienna |
| Died | January 18, 2000 (aged 102) Vienna |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Alma mater | University of Applied Arts Vienna |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Wilhelm Schütte |
| Design | Frankfurt kitchen |
Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky (January 23, 1897, Margareten bei Wien, Austria-Hungary – January 18, 2000) was the first female Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Nazi resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called Frankfurt kitchen.
Margarete Lihotzky was born 23 January 1897 into a bourgeois family in Margareten, (since 1850 a part of) Vienna. Her grandfather Gustav Lihotzky was a mayor of Czernowitz, Ducal Bukovina, and her mother Julie Bode was relative of Wilhelm von Bode. Her father was a liberal-minded civil servant Erwin Lihotzky, 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 (today University of Applied Arts Vienna), 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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