Adalbert Seligmann

Adalbert Franz Seligmann , as a feature writer Plein-air. and AFS (born April 2, 1862 in Vienna ; † December 13, 1945 there ) was an Austrian painter and art critic .

Don Quixote

Grave of Adalbert Seligmann and his parents with a Latin inscription in the Döblingen cemetery

Life

The son of the Viennese medical historian Romeo Seligmann was a part of the intellectual circles of Vienna from his youth. In 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . The history painter , who was particularly valued as a teacher at the turn of the century, also wrote art reviews and feature articles for the Neue Freie Presse and dealt with the relationship between writers such as Goethe and Franz Grillparzer and the visual arts. Seligmann made particular merits as one of the co-founders of the women's art school, which later became the Vienna Women's Academy . For Ella Elise Zwieback-Zirner he designed an allegorical room decoration for her apartment at Kärntner Straße 11/15, corner of Weihburggasse. Seligmann's probably best-known painting depicts the surgeon Theodor Billroth operating in the lecture hall in front of the assembled auditorium . Seligmann kept Beethoven's skull fragments taken over from his father until 1936 in his apartment in Vienna, from then until the end of the war in 1945 he kept them hidden in an unknown location. Regardless of his partly Jewish origins, Seligmann survived the Nazi regime and the war in Vienna unscathed. In 1990, through his heirs, the skull migrated to San José (California) to the Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University . Larger parts of Seligmann's estate are in the Vienna Library in the City Hall .

In 1958, Seligmanngasse in Vienna- Liesing (23rd district) was named after him. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, an exhibition was held in the reading room of the Vienna Library in the City Hall in December 1962 .

Web links

Commons : Adalbert Seligmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon
• Painting "Theodor Billroth operates" by Adalbert Seligmann
• Seligmann family and Beethoven's skull
• Reference to the holdings of the Vienna Library

literature

• [OV = Adalbert Franz Seligmann:] Behind life. A monthly for a few. Vienna: Emil M. Engel 1897. (Printed as manuscript, 23 pages)
• Adalbert Franz Seligmann: Critical studies of Plein-air. , Vienna 1904
• Adalbert Franz Seligmann: Der dying Expressionism , in: Neue Freie Presse , No. 20281, February 13, 1921, pp. 1-4 ( ANNO ).
• Adalbert Franz Seligmann (Ed.): Leopold Carl Müller . An artist's life in letters, pictures and documents , Vienna 1922
• Ch. Gruber / M. Haja, Seligmann Adalbert Franz , in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon , Vol. 12 (Lfg. 56, 2002), p. 152f ( online ).
• Maximilian Kaiser (Ed.): Adalbert Franz Seligmann. Essays and Reviews (1918–1933) , Vienna 2015 ISBN 978-3-7386-1693-4
• Maximilian Kaiser: The Vienna Discourse on the Avant-garde. Reconstruction and analysis of the discourse network, dissertation University of Vienna, 2017.