Margarete Hamerschlag

Margarete Hamerschlag (May 10, 1902, in Vienna – April 5, 1958, in London[1]) was an Austrian artisan, painter, author and illustrator.

From 1911 (according to other sources as early as 1908[1]), she attended the Juvenile Art Class of Franz Cižek and studied from 1917 at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule with Bertold Löffler (printing), Oskar Strnad (stage design) and Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill (fashion).

Even after the First World War, women only had the opportunity to exhibit as a guest in the artists' associations; membership was still denied.

In 1950, she began to teach in youth clubs[3] and published her experiences there in 1955 in her most famous work Journey into a fog with own illustrations.

In addition, in many encyclopaedias, auction catalogs, even in art historical treatises her name was now typically misspelled Hammerschlag (with two m’s).