The show was occasioned by her American family’s bequest of a part of her impressive oeuvre.

One of Josef Hoffmann’s and Michael Powolny’s students at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, Wieselthier was the most prominent representative of a Wiener Werkstätte Ceramics wholly influenced by women artists. From 1927 she headed the production facility, where she developed a new form of ceramic sculpture of heretofore unknown expressivity.

The MAK exhibition had access to significant objects from European collections as well as from her estate in the USA, some never exhibited before now. Through the archive of the Wiener Werkstätte, the MAK already possessed incomparable sources and objects from her life and work, which now have been substantially augmented through the gift to the museum of her entire works on paper bequest; and which allow her career in the USA, little known on these shores, to be traced.