Olga Fialka

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Olga von Fialka (born April 19, 1848 in Theresienstadt , Austrian Empire ; died December 17, 1930 in Nagybánya , Romania ) was an Austro-Hungarian painter , wife of Károly Ferenczy and mother of the artist Valér Ferenczy ( etcher ) and the twin siblings Béni Ferenczy ( Sculptor ) and Noémi Ferenczy ( image maker ).

Life

Olga Fialka was the daughter of the Austrian officer Moric Fialka (1809–1869) and Caroline Hanslick. Her father, who also had literary interests, was ennobled for his military services and at the end of his career was transferred to Krakow . There Olga had her first artistic impressions in Jan Matejko's studio . She studied painting in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts under August Eisenmenger .

Fialka received orders from German publishers for book illustrations , especially for fairy tale books.

She was a cousin of Károly Ferenczy, who was fourteen years her junior, with whom she set off in 1884 on an educational trip of several years to Italy to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli . The following year both returned and married. After the birth of her son Valér in 1885, Olga largely gave up painting in favor of family responsibilities. The family lived in Szentendre from 1889 , in Munich from 1893 and moved to the Nagybánya artists ' colony in 1896 . After Károly's death in 1917, Olga stayed with her daughter Noémi in Nagybánya, which became Romanian after 1918.

The Károly Ferenczy Museum was established in Szentendre in 1951 , which not only shows works by Károly Ferenczy, but also the works of Olga and the three children, as well as keeping the bequests.

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Richard Leander : Daydreams by French chimneys. Fairy tale . With pictures by Olga von Fialka. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1878.
  • Fairy tales from the Wilhelmine era. Fairy tales and Schwänke by Rudolf Baumbach and Richard von Volkmann-Leander . With 76 textile. by Paul Mohn and Olga von Fialka. Weltbild, Augsburg 2009.
  • Hermann Fischer : Seven Swabians. Biographical characteristics . Bruckmann, Munich 1879.
  • Julius Sturm : fairy tales . Pictures by Olga von Fialka. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1881.

literature

  • Gy. Szucs: Fialka, Olga . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 39, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22779-5 , p. 310.
  • Jenő Murádin: Ferenczy Károlyné Fialka Olga . In: Művészettörténeti értesítő . No. 24, 1975, pp. 92-96.
  • István Genthon: The Ferenczy Family. Exhibition in Buda Castle . Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest 1968.

Web links

Commons : Olga Fialka  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moric Fialka. In: Otto's Encyclopedia . Volume IX. Prague 1895, pp. 157–158 (cs).
  2. ↑ a b c Gy. Szucs: Olga Fialka . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , 2004, p. 310.
personal data
SURNAME Fialka, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fialka, Olga von; Ferenczy-Fialka, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Theresienstadt , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1930
Place of death Nagybánya , Romania