Marie Egner

Marie Egner ( born August 25, 1850 in Bad Radkersburg, Styria, † March 31 1940 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.

Life

The Styrian Marie Egner first studied in Graz when drawing teacher Hermann von Brunn king and then went to Dusseldorf where she was from 1872 to 1875 a student of Carl Jung's home ( 1830-1886 ). 1882, she came to Vienna, where she settled with her mother. Here she was until 1887 a pupil of Emil Jakob Schindler, in whose circle painted in the summer months at Plankenberg in Lower Austria. Study visits led them through Europe where she was in England from 1887 to 1889. After that first successes came a; Egner had exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus in Germany and England. A painting school for women in 1910 she had to give up for health reasons. After the First World War, she was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria ( VBKÖ ), organized in 1926 a major exhibition for Marie Egner. In 1930 she lost her eyesight and increasingly withdrew from public life.

Performance

Marie Egner was next to Tina Blue, Olga Wisinger - Florian Koller and Broncia the most important Austrian artist around 1900., You will be assigned a student of Emil Jakob Schindler Austrian mood impressionism. Thematically, it dealt largely with the landscape painting in oil and watercolor as well as floral pieces. Their motives emerged from nature in plein- air painting.

Works (selection)

  • Cornfield near St. Georgen bei Melk ( St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 4536 ), 1895, oil on cardboard, 55 x 74.6 cm
  • Blooming poppy field in Styria (Graz, Neue Galerie Graz), 1896
  • Autumnal forest in Purkersdorf (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 127/ 81), 1900, oil on cardboard, 30.5 × 36.8 cm
  • Spring on the Danube with a view to Melk Abbey (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. 248/ 85), 1906, oil on canvas, 53 × 71 cm
  • In the pergola (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 1546), 1910, oil on cardboard, 68 x 86.7 cm
  • Dunes in Brittany (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 2920 ), around 1910, Tempera on paper, 48.5 × 66.8 cm
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