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Margarete Hamerschlag visited around 1910, the youth school class of Franz Čižek and studied from 1917 at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts under Bertold Löffler, Oskar Strnad and Eduard Wimmer-Wisgrill. From 1920 she made illustrations for books of the Wiener Werkstätte, with which she had first successes. The young artist also became editorial member of the magazine Wiener Mode and designed costumes. In 1922 she married the architect and Loos student Joseph Berger. The artist lived from 1924 to 1934 in the artists' colony on Rosenhügel. In 1927 she participated in the first Viennese art exhibition. A commission her husband had obtained to build a hotel in Haifa led the couple to Palestine in 1934 before they finally emigrated to London in 1936, where their son was born the same year. In her new home, Hamerschlag worked as a portraitist, book illustrator and art teacher for young people. With the Anschluss of Austria also broke the contact to her home and she changed her last name to Berger-Hamerschlag. In England, she continued her previous artistic success, participated in numerous exhibitions and wrote novels, short stories and an autobiography in addition to her painting.


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