Helene von Taussig (1879-1942) was an Austrian painter.
Biography
von Taussig was born on 10 May 1879 in
Vienna, Austria.
Born into a prominent Jewish family, she was the fifth of 12 children.
In 1910 she traveled with fellow artist
Emma Schlangenhausen to Oschwand, Switzerland where they studied painting with
Cuno Amiet. From 1911 through 1914 von Taussig studied at the
Académie Ranson
The Académie Ranson was founded in Paris by the French painter Paul Ranson (1862–1909), who himself studied at the Académie Julian, in 1908. in
Paris. During
World War I she served in the Red Cross on the Isonzo front. After the war she settled in the
Anif area of
Salzburg with Emma Schlangenhausen and .
In 1923 von Taussig converted to
Catholicism.
In 1934 she moved into a studio designed by .
Because of her Jewish ancestry von Taussig was deported to the
Izbica Ghetto
The Izbica ghetto was a Jewish ghetto created by Nazi Germany in Izbica in occupied Poland during World War II, serving as a transfer point for deportation of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Bełżec and Sobibór exterm ...
in Poland in 1942 where she died in on 21 April 1942.
Legacy
In 2012 many of her paintings were returned to her heirs by the
Salzburg Museum as part of the ''Federal Act on the Restitution of Artworks from Austrian Federal Museums and Collections''.
The heirs subsequently sold eleven of the nineteen paintings back to the Salzburg Museum.
von Taussig is memorialized by a ''
stolperstein'' in Kirchenplatz, Anif, which was installed in 2014.
Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition ''City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938'' at the
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
Gallery
Helene von Taussig – Dame mit gelbem Hut 1920.JPG, ''Dame mit gelbem Hut'', 1920
Helene von Taussig - Aktstudie 1932.jpg, ''Aktstudie'', 1932
Helene von Taussig - Der Tänzer Harald Kreutzberg.jpg, ''Der Tänzer Harald Kreutzberg
Harald Kreutzberg (December 11, 1902 – April 25, 1968) was a German dancer and choreographer associated with the Ausdruckstanz movement, a form in which the individual, artistic expression of feelings or emotions is essential. Though largely fo ...
'', 1933
References
External links
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Further reading
The restitution case of Helene von Taussig (1879-1942)
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1879 births
1942 deaths
20th-century Austrian women artists
Artists from Vienna
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism
Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust
People who died in Izbica Ghetto