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This was announced by the Christine König gallery in Vienna, where Spiluttini was under contract, on Friday evening. Spiluttini was born the daughter of a master builder in Schwarzach im Pongau, completed an apprenticeship as a medical-technical assistant and initially worked in nuclear medicine at the Vienna General Hospital. As an autodidact, she eventually turned her passion for photography into a career.
Spiluttini took photographs for renowned architects and artists such as Adolf Krischanitz, to whom she had been married since 1973, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Friedrich Achleitner, Hermann Czech, David Chipperfield and Olafur Eliasson. She was considered one of the best photo artists for architecture in Europe, was a member of the board of the Vienna Secession for many years and was awarded numerous prizes – for example the Austrian State Prize for Artistic Photography in 2016. Since 2014, an illness – Spiluttini suffered from multiple sclerosis – has prevented her from taking photographs. Spiluttini, who donated her artistic legacy to the Architekturzentrum Wien, leaves behind an archive of around 120,000 slides.
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