Amelia Sarah Levetus

Amelia Sarah Levetus (born October 22, 1853 in Birmingham ; † June 9, 1938 in Vienna ) was a British-Austrian art historian , author and involved in popular education .

Life

Amelia Levetus came from a Jewish family based in England . The Levetus brothers work as jewelers and silversmiths on Vittoria Street. Her father Lewis is a volunteer in the Jewish community. The mother Celia published the "Sabbath Journal" with her sister Marion at a young age. The siblings wrote a volume of poetry and two works on Jewish history.

Amelia attended King Edward's School, the Midland Institute, and Mason College in her hometown. She studied economics at the universities of Birmingham , St. Andrew's , Cambridge and Aberdeen . In 1891 she moved to Vienna. Two years later she was admitted to the University of Vienna as an extraordinary student .

At the invitation of economists Eugene Peter Schwiedland (1863-1936) she held two public lectures on 1897 as the first woman at the University of Vienna Engros - cooperatives . Her essays on the economic self-help of workers in England and Scotland appeared in a French specialist journal.

She died unmarried on June 9, 1938 in Vienna XIX., Peter Jordanstraße 82 and was born on June 15, 1938 in the urn grove at the Vienna Central Cemetery , Department 8, Ring 2, Group 6, Grave No. 175 buried.

Art criticism and art funding

Amelia Levetus worked as a journalist for contemporary art in Vienna, for applied arts and modern design.

In 1902 she wrote an article for the art magazine "The Studio", published in London, Paris and New York, about the latest exhibition of the Vienna Secession . She reported on paintings by Gustav Klimt and Franz Stuck and the woodcuts by Emil Orlik inspired by a trip to Japan . In the same year a report on Austrian design followed at the international exhibition for decorative arts in Turin. In 1905 the landscape paintings by Karl Mediz (1868–1945) and Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (1861–1908) were presented to the public . The next issue was about arts and crafts schools in Austria, antique furniture , including dolls furniture from the 16th century from the Albert Figdor collection . In July 1906 the focus was on peasant embroidery. Levetus introduced interior designers and the artisan Otto Prutscher , who had studied at the arts and crafts school and taught at the graphic teaching and research institute . In December 1906 an article about Austro-Hungarian farmhouse furniture followed. In June 1908 an article appeared on the Viennese painter and etcher Ludwig Michalek . She presented the arts and crafts offspring of the "Imperial Arts and Crafts School" at the Stubenring .

In 1903 the "John Ruskin Club" was founded in the Ottakring Volksheim in the Ottakring workers' district and Ms. Levetus was elected President. The model for the club was John Ruskin , professor of art history at Oxford, founder of a museum, drawing school and evening school for craftsmen.

Works

• Imperial Vienna. An Account of Its History, Traditions and Arts. Lane, London 1905. Full text

literature

• Franz Planer (Hrsg.): The year book of the Viennese society: Biographical contributions to Viennese contemporary history. - Vienna: Planner, 1929
• Bernard Dolman (Ed.): Who's Who in Art: a Series of Alphabetically-Arranged Biographies of the Leading Men and Women in the World of Art To-day (Artists, Collectors, Critics and Curators). - London: Art Trade Press, 1934
• Wilhelm Filla, Miss AS Levetus - art historian and popular educator. Portrait of a cross-border pioneer . In: Searching for traces. Journal for the history of adult education and science popularization, 12th year, 2001, issue 1–4, pp. 24–39.

Web links

• Amelia Sarah Levetus. 1858–1938 (adulteducation.at)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It erroneously appears under the name "Levetics" both in the Vienna directory of those who died on June 19, 1938 and in the database of people buried in Vienna.