Vera Deér

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Vera Deér (born March 3, 1912 in Budapest , † July 29, 1994 in Baden near Vienna ) was a Hungarian-Austrian sculptor .

Life

Vera Deér was born as the daughter of Hermann August Dér (* 1878) and Elsa Laura Dér. Kohn (* 1879) was born as their third daughter. The family carried the name Deutschländer until 1918. The parents were arrested in Budapest in 1944 because of their Jewish origin. Nothing is known about their further fate to this day. In June 1930 Vera Deér passed her Matura examination at the girls' school Szilagyi Erzsebet in the II district in Budapest . She then attended Olga Szentpál's private dance and gymnastics school, which taught according to the method of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze . Gymnastic types of exercise were based on rhythmic-musical sensitivity, the lessons also included art-historical and aesthetic education, which was modeled on ancient Greece . This training not only founded Vera Deér's turn to the theater at first , but later also to sculpture . In 1934 she was accepted into the Drama Academy in Budapest by the actor and drama teacher Ódry Árpád. Engagements in 1935/36 in Szeged , 1936/37 in Pécz and further tour commitments were to follow. Her sister Marianne (1905–1971), who would later have success as a painter, brought her into contact with the visual arts at an early age.

Vera Deér married the doctor Andreas Tibor Stefan Soóky on April 19, 1941 . The marriage was divorced on September 3, 1946.

While searching for her apparently deported parents, Vera Deér was imprisoned by the German occupying forces in Budapest in July 1944 . Her release shortly after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 , led her back to brief uncertainty among the German occupation authorities. Vera Deér lived underground until the end of the war .

From 1946 she worked for two years as a spokesperson for Hungarian radio until she emigrated to Austria in 1948. On August 9, 1948, a unit at the headquarters of the United States Forces in Austria confirmed that it had been registered in the US Zone Vienna. To secure her existence, she took over the management of the old people's home for refugees House Norway in Steindorf am Ossiacher See from 1951 to 1953 .

In August 1965 Vera Deér was able to move into a studio at Steindlgasse 2 in the 1st district of Vienna, which was located between the Zum Weißen Storch pharmacy , Tuchlauben 9, and the Gösser Bierklinik , Steindlgasse 4, with the glass front facing northeast towards Kleeblattgasse. She was to keep this studio with two cabinets until the end of her life. In the last years of her life she spent the winter months in Baden near Vienna. Vera Deér was buried in the mountain cemetery of the municipality of Gloggnitz at the foot of the Semmering. In addition to her name, the tombstone also bears that of her parents in their memory. On the stone is a cast of Statue I, which was completed in 1987.

Studies and works

In 1955 Vera Deér applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and was accepted into the master school for sculpture by Fritz Wotruba . Five years later, on July 1, 1960, she received her diploma as an "Academic Sculptor". At the same time, Alfred Hrdlicka , Joannis Avramidis and Erwin Reiter studied with Fritz Wotruba .

After completing her studies, she first set up a small studio in an apartment in a community building in Vienna-Floridsdorf . The garden administration of the City of Vienna also gave her the assurance that she would carry out larger sculptural works in a nearby municipal depot. For a short time she was accepted as an intern in the Dombauhütte of St. Stephen's Cathedral. A copy of the hands and head of the figure popularly known as the toothache Christ , which is placed in a niche behind the apse of St. Stephen's Cathedral, is made in stone. While still in Floridsdorf, she began a torso made of red Salzburg marble. In 1962 the Austrian Ministry of Education acquired a head from a Baden conglomerate . From the city of Vienna she received an order for a drinking fountain in a day care center, which she realized. A white marble shaped as a ball is set on a black marble cube.

Her sculptural estate with drawings, written documents, correspondence and some certificates from her parents has been preserved.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition

  • March 10, 1991-24. April 1991 New gallery. State and municipal art collections Kassel, Vera Deér sculpture and drawings

Group exhibitions

  • January 17, 1968 Galerie Würthle Vienna, The Head. Graphic picture sculpture
  • 0March 3, 1977-17. March 1977 The Collegium Hungaricum and the Austro-Hungarian Association, memorial exhibition of the painter Marianne Dér (1905–1971)
  • June 16, 1982-22. August 1982 Kasseler Kunstverein, torso as a principle
  • December 17, 1982-30. January 1983 MŰCSARNOK BUDAPEST, TISZTELET A SZÜLŐFÖLDNEK (HOMAGE À LA TERRE NATALE)

literature

  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel (ed.): Vera Deér, sculpture and drawings. Exhibition March 10 to April 24, 1991. Catalog and exhibition: Marianne Heinz, design: Karl Oskar Blase. Weber and Weidemeyer, Kassel 1991, ISBN 3-925272-29-1
  • Marianne Dér (1905–1971), Retrospective. Exhibition catalog Galerie Nationale Hongroise, Budapest, Août 1973

Web links

  • Vera Deer on artnet.de, accessed February 3, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel (ed.): Vera Deér, sculpture and drawings. Exhibition March 10 to April 24, 1991. Catalog and exhibition: Marianne Heinz, design: Karl Oskar Blase. Book and art publisher Weber and Weidemeyer GmbH, Kassel, ISBN 3-925272-29-1 , p. 26 .
  2. ^ Kortárs Magyar Művészeti Lexicon I – III. | Digitális Tankönyvtár. Retrieved February 3, 2019 (Hungarian).
  3. ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel (ed.): Vera Deér, sculpture and drawings. Exhibition March 10 to April 24, 1991, pp. 12, 34 .
  4. ↑ Ibid., P. 14 .
  5. ↑ Ibid., Pp. 13, 33 .
personal data
SURNAME Deér, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1994
Place of death Baden near Vienna