Maria Mizzaro

Maria Mizzaro 1999

Maria Mizzaro , born as Maria Wimmer , (* February 23, 1925 in Vienna ; † November 7, 2009 in Vienna) was an Austrian scientific graphic artist and photographer for zoology .

Life

Maria Mizzaro finished her training as a graphic artist at the graphic teaching and research institute in Vienna in 1942. In the following year she was obliged to work as a technical draftsman in Berlin. She then worked in the same position until May 1945 at Kapsch and Sons in Vienna. In July 1945 she began her work at the Zoological Institute of the University of Vienna . Increasingly, there were also photographic tasks and the preparatory preparation of the (mainly anatomical) objects to be depicted. A one-year maternity leave enabled her to accept an invitation from the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 1958-59 as a Senior Scientific Illustrator . In 1964 she married Ing. Mario Mizzaro. In 1976 she was given the professional title of Professor . From 1982 to 1995 Maria Mizzaro was able to pass on her professional experience in scientific illustration to zoology students as part of a teaching assignment at the University of Vienna. She was also interested in the historical development of zoology in Vienna.

Maria Mizzaro died in November 2009 in Vienna. The funeral took place on November 16, 2009 at Baumgartner Friedhof (group 26, number 793).

Honors

• 1987 Decoration of Honor from the University of Vienna
• 1996 Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

Co-authored works

• Luitfried Salvini-Plawen , Maria Mizzaro: 150 years of zoology at the University of Vienna . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Austria. Volume 136 (1999), pp. 1-76.
• Maria Mizzaro-Wimmer, Luitfried Salvini-Plawen: Practical Malacology. Contributions to the comparative anatomical treatment of the molluscs: Caudafoveata to Gastropoda-'Streptoneura' . Vienna: Springer 2001. ISBN 3-211-83652-7 .
• Wilhelm Marinelli , Anneliese Strenger : Comparative anatomy and morphology of vertebrates . Vienna: Deuticke 1953–1973 with 283 illustrations based on original drawings by Maria Wimmer-Mizzaro.

literature

• Friedrich Schaller : Mizzaro, Maria. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien / Köln / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 514-517 (this short biography also contains a detailed list of the publications illustrated by Maria Mizzaro).