Karl Mayländer

Karl Mayländer (died early 1940s) was a Jewish businessman and art collector who was deported from Vienna to Lodz, in German occupied Poland, by the Nazis during the Second World War and later died in the Holocaust.

Mayländer was an art collector and critic who was a member of the board of the Volksheim Ottakring (later the Volkshochschule Ottakring), an adult education school which also hosted art exhibitions. Mayländer acquired the work of many young Austrian artists, including many drawings by Egon Schiele whom he knew personally.

Art by Schiele owned by Mayländer has been the subject of restitution claims by his descendant in New York, Eva Zirkl, and in 2016 the Leopold Museum in Vienna agreed to return two watercolour paintings by Schiele to Zirkl.