Likarz, Maria: – Fashion design on both sides.

Lovely sketches for a dress for a women, on the other side the head of a woman with a hat: charcoal with aquatint in grey and brown. – Maria Likarz (born March 28, 1893 in Przemysl; † November 10, 1971 in Rome) married. Strauss was a designer, graphic artist and employee of the Wiener Werkstätte. – From 1908 to 1910, Likarz went to the art school for women and girls in Vienna, where she was a student of Otto Friedrich, among others. She studied art at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Josef Hoffmann, Rosalia Rothansl and Anton Kenner from 1910 to 1914. While she was still studying, she worked as a graphic designer for the Wiener Werkstätte. – From 1912 to 1914 and from 1920 until its dissolution in 1931 she worked at the Wiener Werkstätte. She designed postcards, advertisements, posters, wrapping paper, stationery and marbled paper (tunk paper). She later devoted herself more to ceramics and enamel before turning to fashion. Her work has been shown many times in exhibitions. – A bit dusty, edges ocassionaly with some wrinkles and a few minor tears. – Vollmer V, 374; Fuchs II, 113; Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte 172 ff.; ‘Wiener Charme’ Katalog des germanischen Natinalmuseums 1984, p. 29 ff. (extensive). – Original works by Likarz are hard to find.