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Jutta Sika

Austrian artist

Jutta Sika (17 September – 2 January ) was an Austrian graphic designer, artist, fashion designer, and an educator.

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Early life and education

Sika was born on 17 September in Linz, Austria. Her father, Alfred Sika, had worked as an inspector for the state-controlled railway system. Around the same year that she was born, the family moved to Vienna. Sika had always had an interest in the arts and in , she began to pursue her studies at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.[1] She remained there for two years before continuing her education at the School of Applied Arts, where she went to study costume design from to and then returning from to [2]

Career

Sika was one of the founding members of "Wiener Kunst im Hause", a group formed in that was composed of former students who had attended Kunstgewerbeschule Wien.

This group then rebranded itself as Wiener Werkstätte, shifting their attention towards creating Gesamtkunstwerk, a unified system that embraced the concept of a total work of art and all around a unified design for interiors. Sika was also a skilled ceramicist[3] and glass designer working for well-known ceramics and glass manufacturers.

Jutta sika biography of abraham lincoln In the s she had her own workshop in Vienna and, among others, created several plastic female figures made of terra-cotta for the peristyle of the Presidential Palace in Ankara designed by Clemens Holzmeister. Felice Rix was born in Vienna in and died in Kyoto in Koloman Moser was born in Vienna in and died there in But the times after WW I were not easy.

Later she went on to design women's fashion for multiple fashion firms, creating accessories and embroidery designs for Austrian fashion brands such as Schwestern Flöge and Wiener Stickerei. She then worked as a graphic designer, working for a Christmas tree decoration firm, tea packaging and making postcards. In , she began to put all of her energy towards paintings when she developed an interest in creating floral subjects.

She also worked as a teacher, becoming a professor for a drawing class at Gewerbliche Fortbildungschule in Vienna from to During the Second World War she spent the remainder of her time teaching at an girls' secondary school.[4]

She died on 2 January in Vienna.[2]

Work

Many of Sika's works are in the collections of museums in the United States including the Museum of Modern Art,[5] the Art Institute of Chicago,[6] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[7]

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