Adele Esinger

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Adele Esinger (born December 22, 1844 in Salzburg ; † January 6, 1923 there ) was an Austrian painter and theater actress.

Life

Adele Esinger was born as the daughter of the regimental doctor Johann Esinger. She enjoyed her training with Friedrich Zeller and Bernd Weinmann , with Adalbert Waagen in Munich, Heinrich Funk in Stuttgart (1873–1874), Hans Fredrik Gude and Wilhelm Schirmer in Karlsruhe (1874–1875). The Viennese landscape painter Anton Hansch was also an important teacher in the last year of his life. She took over the entire estate from the latter.

In the last quarter of the 19th century, Adele Esinger was one of the frequent exhibitors in the Salzburger Kunstverein . That was certainly something special, as these associations were a male domain. Adele Esinger also helped found the Munich female artists' association in 1882. She mostly made oil paintings with landscape motifs from Salzburg and the surrounding area. Examples of her pictures are “Partie in der Fürsten-Allee”, “Mill near Salzburg”, “Remains of a landslide near Golling”, “Tree part in Kleingmain”, “Gollinger Wasserfall”, “Alpensteig in the Salzburg Mountains” or “Shores of the Traunsee ". In her later years - her mobility was already limited - she preferred rose motifs.

In addition to painting, she was also an avid actress. Their first appearance took place in 1889 in the Munich Academic Association. She also gave acting lessons and before the First World War she devoted herself to charity events for the benefit of child and youth welfare.

Her house on Mönchsberg (No. 6), in which she lived with her sister Hermine Esinger until the end of her life , was always a meeting place for artists and important personalities on Fridays. The women's rights activist Irma von Troll-Borostyáni and the artist Berta von Tarnóczi also frequented this place . The path to art remained difficult for her and her life ended in economic hardship.

literature

• Hildegard Fraueneder: Femininity and Art. In: Salzburger Kunstverein (ed.): 150 years of the Salzburger Kunstverein. Art and the public 1844-1994. Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-901264-11-6 , pp. 79-113.
• Adolf Haslinger; Peter Mittermayr (Ed.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon. Residenzverlag, Salzburg 2001, ISBN 3-7017-1129-1 .
• Guido Müller: Adele Esinger (1884-1923). Painter, also actress. In: Peter F. Kramml, P. Franz Lauterbacher, Guido Müller (eds.): Maxglan. Hundred years of parish 1907-1007 - Salzburg's second largest city cemetery. With 120 biographies of well-known, remarkable and famous people. Parish Maxglan, Salzburg 2007, OCLC 300030208 , pp. 208-209.