The art historian Iris Meder has died

On November 5th, renowned art historian Iris Meder (*1965 in Pforzheim, Germany) passed away in Vienna after a battle with a serious illness. Meder studied art history at universities in Stuttgart and Vienna, where she settled permanently in 1990. She was a member of the board of the Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA), a collaborator with the Jewish Museum in Vienna, and primarily the author of numerous publications and exhibitions on Central European modern and contemporary architecture. She contributed to the preservation of several significant monuments of Viennese modernism. In her publications, lectures, and exhibitions, she focused on the works of Josef Frank, Oskar Strnad, Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos. In October 2014, she lectured on Viennese modernism at the Tugendhat Villa.
Not only the Austrian but also the international professional scene is losing one of its most respected, knowledgeable, and actively collaborating historians and critics with the passing of Iris Meder. We will miss Iris Meder.