Jutta sika biography definition

Austrian artist

Jutta Sika (17 September 1877 – 2 January 1964) was an Austrian graphic designer, artist, fashion designer, and an educator.

Early life and education

Sika was born on 17 September 1877 in Linz, Austria. Her father, Alfred Sika, had worked as an inspector for the state-controlled railway system.

Jutta sika biography definition

Around the same year that she was born, the family moved to Vienna. Sika had always had an interest in the arts and in 1895, she began to pursue her studies at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna.^[1] She remained there for two years before continuing her education at the School of Applied Arts, where she went to study costume design from 1897 to 1902 and then returning from 1913 to 1914.^[2]

Career

Sika was one of the founding members of "Wiener Kunst im Hause", a group formed in 1901 that was composed of former students who had attended Kunstgewerbeschule Wien.

This group then rebranded itself as Wiener Werkstätte, s