Alice Berger Hammerschlag née Berger was an Austrian artist. She settled in Belfast and while creating abstract paintings also had a number of creative and administrative roles in Northern Ireland.
Upon moving to Belfast she had a successful career in book design, mostly illustrating and writing children’s books for publishers in the United States, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Britain and Ireland. This was accompanied by other graphic design work. She continued to pursue her own painting practice which started to become abstract from 1947.
She was a permanent member of staff of the Lyric Players Theatre, painting and designing sets for their Dublin and Belfast productions.
