Louise Fraenkel-Hahn (1878-1939) was an Austrian painter and founding member of the ''Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs''.
Biography
Fraenkel-Hahn née Hahn was born on 12 July 1878 in
Vienna, Austria.
She attended the
University of Applied Arts Vienna and the ''Münchner Künstlerinnenverein'' (Munich Association of Women Artists).
In 1902 she traveled to Greece, Italy and France where she was exposed to
French Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...
.
Fraenkel-Hahn was a founding member of the ''
Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs'' (Austrian Association of Women Artists, VBKO),
and served as its president from 1923 through 1937.
In 1903 she married fellow artist Walter Fraenkel (1879-1943).
The couple moved to Paris in the late 1930s.
Fraenkel-Hahn died in
Paris in 1939.
Legacy
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
Louise Fraenkel-Hahn - Blumenstrauß in chinesischer Vase.jpg, ''Blumenstrauß in chinesischer Vase''
Louise Fraenkel-Hahn - Flowers in a Blue Vase.jpg, ''Flowers in a Blue Vase''
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1878 births
1939 deaths
19th-century Austrian women artists
20th-century Austrian women artists
Painters from Vienna