Erika Abels d'Albert

Erika Abels d' Albert, (born Erika Abel, born November 3, 1896 in Berlin, † 1975 in Paris) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and Modeentwerferin.

Life and work

Erika Abels, the later the stage name Erika ( Abel ) d' Albert grew up, grew up in a middle-class, art-loving family. Her father, Ludwig Wilhelm Abel (1867-1937), was an art scholar, writer and executive editor of the satirical magazine 1898 The Ship of Fools, her mother, Anna Emilie Mewes, came from near Berlin.

Her artistic education she received in Vienna in the private painting school of Irma von Duczynska (1869-1932) and Elza Kövesházi - Kalmár (1876-1956) and Felix Albrecht Harta in ( 1884-1967 ). Early age of 16 she performed with a group show (portraits, still life, fashion designs, file) for the first time to the public. In the following years she put in the house of the young artists shaft ( former gallery Miethke, 1919) at the Künstlerhaus Vienna, at the Galerie St. Lucas (1920 and 1922 ), the Museum for Art and Industry in the Theseus temple popularly garden. In 1930 she participated in the exhibition of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria ( VBKÖ ) part. In the early 1930s, she emigrated to Paris and also took part in exhibitions there. She presented in 1935 at the Galerie Gregoire Schustermann and 1938 at the Salon d' Automne. After their further artistic activity at the present time is not tangible.

About the oeuvre of Erika Abels d' Albert today almost nothing is known. She painted portraits, still lifes and nudes. In the original, only three works are detectable. The Wien Museum owns her oil painting streetcar from 1919, the Albertina will find a charcoal drawing head of a middle-aged woman (1924 ) and a crayon drawing Seated Rückenakt ( 1921). Occasionally the artist's works are offered in the auction trade.

Erika Abels d' Albert died in 1975 impoverished in Paris.