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Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 1. Vienna:
Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1981 (with diaries and memoirs)
Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 2. Vienna:
Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1993 (with diaries and memoirs)
Arcadja Auctions: More works by Egner
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Marie Egner
''Frauen in Bewegung'' @ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Biography, Literature and Works by Marie Egner
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Marie Egner (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg
Bad Radkersburg (; sl, Radgona; archaic hu, RegedeDivald, Kornél. 1931. ''Old Hungarian Art''. London: Oxford University Press, p. 117.) is a spa town in the southeast of the Austrian States of Austria, state of Styria, in the Districts of Aus ...
- 31 March 1940, Vienna
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) was an Austrian painter.
Life
Egner was born on 25 August 1850 in Bad Radkersburg, Austria. She took her first drawing lessons inGraz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...
with Hermann von Königsbrunn,Geschichte NÖ: Brief biography/ref> then went to
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from 1872 to 1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim. In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach
Neulengbach is a municipality in the district of Sankt Pölten-Land in Lower Austria.
Population
Historical personalities
In 1911, the twenty-one year-old artist Egon Schiele met the seventeen-year-old Walburga (Wally) Neuzil, who lived with ...
, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler
Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler.
Life
He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...
until 1887. A study trip to England followed from 1887 to 1889. Shortly after, her first exhibition was held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. She also exhibited in Germany and England.
Egner exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago
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in Chicago, Illinois. Along with Tina Blau
Tina Blau, later Tina Blau-Lang (15 November 1845 – 31 October 1916) was an Austrian landscape painter.
Life
Blau's father was a doctor in the and was very supportive of her desire to become a painter. She took lessons, successively, with ...
and Olga Wisinger-Florian
Olga Wisinger-Florian (1 November 1844 27 February 1926) was an Austrian impressionist painter, mainly of landscapes and flower still life. She was a representative of the Austrian "" (Mood Impressionism), a loose group of Austrian impression ...
she was part of the Austrian ".
Egner established an art school for women, but had to give it up in 1910, for health reasons. After World War I, she became a member of the Austrian Association of Women Artists
The Austrian Association of Women Artists (German: Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs; VBKÖ) was founded in 1910. The VBKÖ is located at Maysedergasse 2/4, Vienna 1010, its founding headquarters. The association supports improv ...
(VBKÖ). In 1926, the group held a major retrospective exhibition of her work. After 1930, she began to lose her eyesight and withdrew from public life.
She died on 31 March 1940 in Vienna.
Legacy
Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition ''City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938'' at theÖsterreichische Galerie Belvedere
The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.
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References
Further reading
* Werner Fenz: ''Marie Egner 1850-1940. Landschaften, Blumenbilder''. Exhibition catalog. Graz: Neue Galerie, 1979Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 1. Vienna:
Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1981 (with diaries and memoirs)
Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 2. Vienna:
Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1993 (with diaries and memoirs)
External links
Arcadja Auctions: More works by Egner
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Marie Egner
''Frauen in Bewegung'' @ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Biography, Literature and Works by Marie Egner
{{DEFAULTSORT:Egner, Marie 1850 births 1940 deaths 19th-century Austrian painters 20th-century Austrian painters 19th-century Austrian women artists 20th-century Austrian women artists Austrian women painters