Edith Wahl

Edith Wahl is an Austrian artist born in Lower Austria. After graduating from the Teacher Training Academy in Wachau near Krems in 1971, she moved to Vienna, where she worked as an art teacher from 1971 to 1983.

She further developed her artistic skills at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing particularly on drawing and portraiture. Alongside her teaching career, she worked on commissioned projects, especially portrait paintings, and conducted watercolour painting courses.

In 1992, she held her first solo exhibition, Streiflichter 1, which marked an important milestone in her artistic career. During the same period, she became involved in book illustration, creating covers and illustrations for several music publications released by Universal Edition in Vienna and London.

Her work also extended to book design. For Michael Korth's book Wer steckt dahinter?, she created a series of portrait illustrations depicting notable figures from the fields of art, science and literature. The book was published by Eichborn in 1992.