Eugenie Schwarzwald

A progressive Polish philanthropist, writer and pedagogue, she developed education for girls in Austria and was one of the most learned women of her time.

[1] Eugenie Nußbaum left home in 1895 and studied German and English literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Zurich.

For example, Oskar Kokoschka gave lessons in drawing, Arnold Schoenberg taught music and composition and Adolf Loos lectured on architecture.

Among the famous students of the Schwarzwald schools were the art historian Emmy Wellesz[3] and the ethnologist Marianne Schmidl, who would become the first woman to receive a doctorate in ethnology from the University of Vienna.

[5] Like many of her contemporaries, she organised a literary salon where she invited Kokoschka, Loos or Schoenberg as well as the novelists Elias Canetti and Robert Musil.