Bertha of Tarnóczy

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Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg (Hungarian: Tarnóczy Berta) (born April 1, 1846 in Innsbruck , † March 6, 1936 in Pörtschach am Wörther See ) was an Austrian painter and art teacher whose oeuvre included landscape painting , still lifes and portraits .

Life

Alleys in Malcesine, around 1900/1905

Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg was born in Innsbruck in 1846 as the daughter of the Imperial and Royal Court Councilor and Finance Director Karl Ludwig von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg. She was the niece of the Archbishop of Salzburg Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy . She attended school in the Sacré Coeur Riedenburg monastery . Her talent for drawing was already noticed there. At first she accompanied her father on many trips until she took copying lessons from Anton Hansch in Salzburg from 1875/76 . She went to Munich in 1877 , took private lessons there and studied at the female department of the School of Applied Arts with Jeanna Bauck and Theodor Her . When the Munich Artists' Association was founded in 1882 , she was not only one of the founding members, but the initiative to found it also went back to her.

Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg moved to Vienna in 1886 for family reasons . In Vienna she studied with Emil Jakob Schindler and she met Olga Wisinger-Florian . She went on study trips to Italy and Holland , she also exhibited her works in various European cities, including the Salzburger Kunstverein. At the state exhibition in Pest in 1885 and at the exhibition in Agram in 1891 she was awarded an honorary diploma.

Since Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg was of noble descent, she taught students from noble families and, after the death of Michaela Pfaffinger in 1898, took over the management of the painting school in Linz founded by Pfaffinger . She headed this until 1919. She was one of the most famous art teachers of her time and some of her well-known students are Else Martys and Vilma Eckl .

In 1901 she founded the group of eight women artists in Vienna with Eugenie Breithut-Munk , Marianne von Eschenburg , Marie Egner , Susanne Granitsch , Marie Müller , Teresa Feodorowna Ries and Olga Wisinger-Florian . The group of eight artists exhibited at one to two-year intervals in the Pisko art salon in Vienna, and they invited other artists to these exhibitions as guests.

Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg was a member of the Association of Writers and Artists Vienna and the Association of Austrian Women Artists .

She died on March 6, 1936 in Pörtschach am Wörther See.

Web links

Commons : Bertha von Tarnoczy  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aristocratic families from Reisz Ede , accessed on July 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg in Austrian Biographical Lexicon , accessed on July 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d Marianne Baumgartner: The Association of Writers and Artists in Vienna: (1885-1938) . Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79702-9 , pp. 381 ( books.google.com ).
  4. ^ ARIADNE - project "Women in Movement" - "Group of Eight Artists, Vienna". In: ac.at. www.onb.ac.at, accessed on July 24, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Tarnóczy, Bertha von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg, Bertha von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1936
Place of death Pörtschach am Wörther See