Elisabeth Söderberg-Weixlgärtner

Elisabeth Söderberg-Weixlgärtner studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and University of Applied Arts Vienna. Training under Franz Cižek, Karl Sterrer and Wilhelm Dachauer is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Work by Elisabeth Söderberg-Weixlgärtner is recorded in the collections of Belvedere.

Born on 21 January 1912 in Vienna, Elisabeth Pauline Therese Weixlgärtner was the daughter of the art historian Arpad Weixlgärtner (1872–1961) and his wife the artist Josephine Therese (Pepi) Weixlgärtner née Neutra (1886–1981). She was the older of the family's two children. From 1927, when only 15, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, studying under Karl Sterrer, Wilhelm Dachauer and Ferdinand Andri. She graduated as a painter and art teacher in 1932. In 1942, she married the Swedish violinist Karl Söderberg (1893–1949) and moved with him to Sweden. She completed her studies in Stockholm.

After her husband's death, Söderberg taught first in Swedish schools and then at the University of Gothenburg. In parallel, she painted and became increasingly involved in church art, creating altar paintings, stained-glass windows and large copper-enamel decorations. She exhibited in the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair and from 1961 she exhibited with her mother in applied art museums in Vienna, Zurich, Frankfurt and Nuremberg. Her works are in the collections of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, the Vienna Museum and the Israel Museum. Elisabeth Söderberg died in Gothenburg on 9 March 1991.