Anny Schröder Honor Festival

Anny Schröder-Ehrenfest (born May 16, 1898 in Vienna ; † April 11, 1972 in Bad Segeberg ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and textile artist.

life and work

Anny Schröder-Ehrenfest was the daughter of art professor Severin Schröder. From 1913 to 1916 she attended the kk Kunstgewerbeschule of the KK Austrian Museum. From 1914 to 1915 she was in the specialist class for architecture with Oskar Strnad , in 1915 she studied in the specialist class of the architect Josef Hoffmann and from 1915 to 1916 in the workshops for enamel work with Adele von Stark . From 1917 to 1925 she worked at the Wiener Werkstätte , where she made various products: enamel , fabrics, metalwork, glass, commercial graphics, advent calendars, lace, tulle blankets, jewelry, ceramics , boxes covered with dunked silk, with a silhouette under glass on the lid, Playing cards. She also worked on the portfolios Die Mode (1914/1915) and The Life of a Lady (1916).

In 1918 she married Otto Ehrenfest, from whom she divorced in 1924. In 1919 she worked in Halle an der Saale as an artist and lecturer at the city's craft and applied arts school. After 1922 she stayed several times in the center of the German jewelry industry in Pforzheim . In 1924 she visited Istanbul for 5 months , where she made various paintings. In 1933 she was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Graphics. From 1930 to 1938 her center of life was in Berlin . There she took part in the Berlin women's art movement and joined the "Free Association of Graphic Artists in Berlin", of which she was second chairman until 1932. From 1933 to 1935 she taught at the private teaching institution of the “Association of Women Artists in Berlin”. In 1943 she moved to Pforzheim, where she was evacuated in 1945 because of bombing raids on an estate near Demmin. Since her apartment in Pforzheim was bombed out, she lost large parts of her property, including her artistic works, and from 1945 moved to Bad Segeberg.

From 1926 to 1938 she was an extraordinary member of the “ Hagenbund ”, as well as a member of the “ Österreichischer Werkbund ”, the “Central Association of Visual Artists” and the “Wiener Frauenkunst”, for which she was also involved in the organization and conception of exhibitions. She illustrated for various publishers, including De Coster, Till Eulenspiegel and the works of Charles Sealsfield . Her works are still offered in art dealers today.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1915: fashion exhibition
• 1922: German Trade Show Munich
• 1926: Berlin
• 1927: "Viennese women's art"
• 1929: Vienna
• 1930: "How does the woman see", Vienna
• 1946: Hamburg
• 1951: Collective exhibition in the Suermondt Museum in Aachen and in the Municipal Museum in Remscheid

literature

• Andreas Hillert: Anny Schröder. 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12730-3 .
• Schröder-Ehrenfest Anny. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2979 ( PDF ).

Web links

• Biography of Anny Schröder-Ehrenfest
• Rediscovery of an almost forgotten artist.
• Short biography of Anny Schröder-Ehrenfests on the website of the Wiener Galerie bei der Oper
• Anny Ehrenfest-Schröder on artnet