Cooper Hewitt says...
Maria Jungwirth, a painter, graphic artist, and designer, studied in Vienna at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) from 1914–17 under Oskar Strnad, Alfred Roller, Franz Čižek, and Josef Hoffmann. She learned enameling from the noted enamel and ceramic painting specialist Adele von Stark and trained as a guest student of Alfred Coßmann at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Graphic Teaching and Research Institute) for etching and copper engraving. Jungwirth primarily designed textiles and enamelwork for the Wiener Werkstätte as well as copper engraving, postcards, and bookplates. She participated in numerous exhibitions, and was a member of many art and design organizations including the Austrian Werkbund, and artist organizations in the Steiermark and Salzburg. Jungwirth won a silver medal at the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life).
Literature: Werner J. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte. Kunst und Handwerk 1903 - 1932 mit 213 Künstlerbiographien im Anhang. Vienna: Brandstätter, 1982, 261.
Josef Reisinger. Die Kupferstecher der Coßmannschule. Vienna: 1950, 128.
