Biography

Hilde Jesser, born in Marburg in 1894, studied at the art school for women and girls from 1912 to 1914 and at the same time worked as a trainee teacher at the arts and crafts school of the KK Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna. From 1914 to 1917, as a regular student at the Kunstgewerbeschule, she was also able to attend the specialist classes for architecture with Josef Hoffmann and sculpture with Anton Hanak. As early as 1916, Dagobert Peche brought her into the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte. There she designed over 200 lace, fabric and wallpaper patterns, decors for furniture and glass, jewelry, leather goods, ceramics and commercial art. External clients included the Viennese companies J.&L. Lobmeyr and the Augarten porcelain factory. In 1922 Jesser received a teaching position at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and was appointed full professor there in 1935. She retired in 1966. Jesser was a member of the Austrian Werkbund, the Association of Austrian Women Artists and Viennese Women's Art. She died in Vienna in 1985.

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Objects by Hilde Jesser