The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Central European Studies
Charles W. Ingrao, senior editor
Gary B. Cohen, editor
Franz A. J. Szabo, editor
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Julie M. Johnson
Purdue University Press
West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue University Press gratefully acknowledges financial assistance provided for this book by the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the Department of Art and Art History of the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Cover image: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, The Travelers, 1938. Oil on canvas. The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, London. Photograph courtesy of MLVM Trust.
Copyright 2012 by Purdue University. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Julie M.
The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 / Julie M. Johnson.
p. cm. -- (Central European studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-61249-224-7 (epdf) -- ISBN 978-1-61249-203-2 (epub) 1. Women artists--Austria--Vienna--Biography. 2. Art and society--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century. 3. Art and society--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century. I. Title.
N6811.J64 2012
704.042092243613--dc23
[B]
2011047705
I dedicate this book to my daughter Isabel, with love and respect.
Contents
Illustrations
Teresa Ries, Lucifer, ca. 1897.
. Egon Schiele, The Roundtable, 1918.
. Tina Blau, View of Vienna, 1898.
. Tina Blau, Spring at the Prater, 1882.
. Josef Engelhart, The Cherry Picker, 1893.
. August Geigenberger, The Painting Dames in the Mares Exhibition, 1909.
. Tina Blau, Prater Spring, n.d.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, signature block and color woodcut, 1902.
. Josef Hoffmann, installation of Wiener Werksttte objects with Elena Luksch-Makowskys silverwork, 1907.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Self-Portrait with Son Peter, 1901.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Adolescentia, 1903.
. Koloman Moser, installation, 10th exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1901.
. Koloman Moser, installation, 10th exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1901.
. Koloman Moser, installation with Klimt wall, 10th exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1901.
. Koloman Moser, installation, 10th exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1901.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, birth announcement for Peter Luksch, 1901.
. Elisabeth Vige-Lebrun, Self-Portrait: Mother with Child, 1786.
. Koloman Moser, 13th exhibition of the Secession, 1902.
. Alfred Roller, cover of the first issue of Ver Sacrum, 1898.
. Ferdinand Hodler, Deep Emotion, 1901.
. Ilse Conrat, Wet Hair, 1900-01.
. Egon Schiele, Mother and Child (Madonna), ca. 1908.
. Josef Hoffmann, 14th Secession exhibition, 1902.
. Josef Hoffmann, 14th Secession exhibition, 1902.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Death and Time, 1902.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Sadkos Viewing of the Brides, 1902.
. Maximilian Lenz, panel for Beethoven installation, 1902.
. Throne for Beethoven installation, 1902.
. Ferdinand Andri, primitive-looking finials, 1902.
. Josef Hoffmann, 14th Secession exhibition, 1902.
. Josef Hoffmann, 17th Secession exhibition, 1903.
. Josef Hoffmann, 17th Secession exhibition, 1903.
. Josef Hoffmann, 17th Secession exhibition, 1903.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Melpomene frieze, 1905.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Melpomene frieze, 1905.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Melpomene and the Tragic Chorus, 1905.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, The Abbey of Thlme, 1908.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son, 1907.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, The Sauna is Our Second Mother, 1908.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Womans Fate, 1910-12.
. Elena Luksch-Makowsky, detail, Womans Fate, 1911-12.
. Broncia Koller, Interior in Oberwaltersdorf, after 1912.
. Broncia Koller, Seated Nude (Marietta), 1907.
. Broncia Koller, Still Life with Fruit and Parrot, 1910.
. Broncia Koller, My Mother, 1907.
. Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Painter Hans Massmann, 1909.
. Erwin Lang, Nude (Grete Wiesenthal), 1909.
. Broncia Koller, Portrait of Emilie Bittner, 1911.
. Vincent Van Gogh, Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle, 1889.
. Anton Peschka, Portrait of Egon Schiele, 1916.
. Koloman Moser, Kunstschau Painting Room, 1908.
. Koloman Moser, Kunstschau Sculpture Room, 1908.
. Josef Hoffmann, Kunstschau Wiener Werksttte Room; ceramics by Berthold Lffler and Michael Powolny, 1908.
. Alfred Roller, Kunstschau detail, Theater Arts Room, 1908.
. Koloman Moser, Kunstschau Graphic Arts Room, 1908.
. Koloman Moser, Kunstschau Klimt Room, 1908.
. Broncia Koller, The Birdcage, 1907-08.
. Broncia Koller, The Harvest, 1908.
. Installation of the Koller-Shrder exhibition at the Galerie Miethke, 1911.
. Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912.
. Broncia Koller, Arco, 1910-12.
. Broncia Koller, The Last Judgement, 1903.
. Egon Schiele, Portrait of Dr. Hugo Koller, 1918.
. Broncia Koller, Egon and Edith Schiele, ca. 1918.
. Helene Funke, Portrait of a Child (Child from Hungary), before 1910.
. Helene Funke, In the Boudoir, 1908-10.
. Photograph of Helene Funke on her studio terrace, 1913.
. Helene Funke, Still Life with Two Fish, 1920.
. Helene Funke, Still Life with Fruit and Vessels, 1931.
. Helene Funke, Peach Still Life, 1918.
. Helene Funke, Dancers, 1907-08.
. Helene Funke, In the Loge, 1904-07.
. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Loge, 1874.
. Helene Funke, The Dreamers, 1913.
. Helene Funke, Still Life with Rose Basket, 1910-19.
. Helene Funke, Still Life with Pheasant, Hunters Head, and Dog, 1922.
. Helene Funke, Still Life with Tropical Plants, 1910-19.
. Oskar Laske, Ship of Fools, 1923-49.
. Teresa Ries, Death, 1898.
. Teresa Ries, Eve, 1909.
. Teresa Ries, Witch, 1895.
. Teresa Ries, Sleepwalker, before 1894.
. Teresa Ries, Bust of Jaromir Mundy, 1897.
. Teresa Ries, Bust of Hans Wilczek, 1902.
. Teresa Ries, The Invincibles, 1900.
. Teresa Riess studio photographs, 1928.
. Elsa Kalmar von Kveshazi in her studio, n.d.
. Mark Twain in Teresa Riess studio, 1897.
. Teresa Ries, Self-Portrait, 1902.
. Teresa Ries, The Soul Returns to God, 1903.
. Teresa Ries, The Soul Returns to God, 1903.
. Teresa Ries, detail, Sleepwalker, before 1894.
. Teresa Ries, detail, Sleepwalker, before 1894.
. Teresa Ries, Penelope, ca. 1912.
. Ilse Conrat, Wisdom, ca. 1912.
. Ilse Conrat, detail, Wisdom, ca. 1912.
. Ilse Conrat, Laundress fountain in progress, ca. 1914.
. Josef Engelhart, Adam and Eve Fireplace, 1898.
. Poster for opening of Teresa Riess work, 1928.
. Teresa Ries, Eve, 1905.
. Teresa Ries, Witch, 1895.
. Olga Wisinger-Florian, At Breakfast in Karlsbad