Broncia Koller-Pinell
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Broncia Koller-Pinell (25 February 1863, Sanok - 26 April 1934, Oberwaltersdorf) was an Austrian Expressionist painter who specialized in portraits and still-lifes.
Life
She was born as Bronislawa Pineles to a Sephardic Jewish family in what is now Poland. Her father was a designer of military fortifications.[1] In 1870, they moved to Vienna to start a manufacturing business (where they changed the family name to "Pinell") and she took private art lessons with Alois Delug.[2] In 1885, she had her first public exhibition. For the next five years, she studied in Munich at the "Damenakademie" of the Munich Artists' Association in the studios of Ludwig von Herterich.[1] This was followed by exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, in Munich and in Leipzig.[2]
In 1896, against her family's wishes, she married the electro-physicist Dr.Hugo Koller, who was a Catholic. Their children were raised as Christians, but she never converted.[1] At first, they lived in Salzburg and Nuremberg, but returned to Vienna in 1902. Shortly after, she was accepted as a member of the Vienna Secession.[2] In 1904, she inherited a house in Oberwaltersdorf. The family soon moved there, and she had it decorated by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, associates from the Secession. Shortly after, she set up a salon[3] that was frequented by Egon Schiele, Anton Faistauer and Albert Paris Gütersloh, among others.
Her son, Rupert (1896–1976), became a conductor and was briefly married to Anna Mahler. Her daughter Silvia (1898–1963) was also a painter.
Selected paintings
- Woman with Blue Headscarf
(date unknown) - Silvia Koller with Bird Cage (c.1905)
- Sitting (1907)
- Still-life with Red Elephant (c.1920)
- Portrait of Friedrich Eckstein (1920s)
References
- 1 2 3 Jewish Women's Archive: Biography by Birgit Ben Eli
- 1 2 3 Wacha: "Koller Bronislawa (Bronia)". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 87 f. (Direct links to "p. 87", "p. 88")
- ↑ Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum: Brief biography
Further reading
- Die Malerin Broncia Koller 1863–1934. Exhibition catalog, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Vienna (1980)
- Tobias G. Natter: Broncia Koller Pinell. Eine Malerin im Glanz der Wiener Jahrhundertwende. Exhibition catalog. Jüdisches Museum, Vienna (1993)
- Boris Manner: Broncia Koller-Pinell 1863–1934. Brandstätter, Vienna (2006) ISBN 3-902510-88-9
External links
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- ArtNet: More work by Koller-Pinell
- Wien-Vienna Website: "On the Career of Broncia Koller", a book review by Susanne Neuberger
- Broncia Koller-Pinell @ The Blue Lantern
- Literature by and about Broncia Koller-Pinell in the German National Library catalogue