Bettina Holzapfel-Gomperz

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Bettina Holzapfel-Gomperz (* 1879 in Vienna , † 1948 in Bern ) was an Austrian sculptor and writer .

biography

Bettina Gomperz was born as the daughter of the classical philologist Theodor Gomperz (1832–1912) and Elise Sichrovsky (1848–1929). Her brother Heinrich Gomperz (1873-1942) became known as a philosopher , her other brother Rudolf Gomperz (* Vienna 1878-1942 Trostenez concentration camp) was the leading pioneer of ski tourism in St. Anton am Arlberg . Since Bettina paid little attention to current conventions even as a child , she developed into a loner. She was very fond of her cousin Franziska von Wertheimstein (1844–1907), who was 35 years her senior , and became a close confidante. After her death, Bettina inherited the Villa Wertheimsteinsome pictures: Saint Hieronimus , presumably by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , to whom the Death of Mary was also ascribed, as well as landscape with city by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde and female saints floating above the clouds , Venetian , 16th century . Coming from an assimilated Jewish family, she was baptized a Protestant on July 16, 1903 at the request of her father . Bettina spoke four languages, but was unable to educate herself in the way the male family members could. She suffered her entire life as a result, her interests lay in mathematics , spatial measurement and construction. At the age of 14 she was taught by Ludwig Michalek , who promoted her talent in sculpture, watercolor painting and as a draftsman. Her father consulted the portrait painter Franz von Lenbach , who advised him to learn from antiquity . Her father then took her with him on trips to Greece and Italy . Later she encouraged this enthusiasm for art , poetry and music in her daughters as well.

In 1903 she married the Jewish cultural psychologist and philosopher Rudolf Maria Holzapfel (1874–1930). Bettina saw it as her task to support her husband's ideas with money and her labor, but to put her own artistic work on hold. After his death, she saw it as her main task to spread his ideas of pan-idealism . She also designed the burial chapel for her husband. The common children were

  1. Myrrha Holzapfel (* 1905), she was the editor of: "Kompositionen", from the estate of Rudolf Maria Holzapfel, Universal Edition Vienna Leipzig 1932
  2. Monika Holzapfel (1907–1995), author , honorary professor for animal psychology , behavioral research and animal biology at the University of Bern . She was the first woman in Europe to run a zoo ( Tierpark Dählhölzli in Bern) and the first woman to join the International Union of Directors of Zoological Gardens (IUDZG, now WAZA ) , which was founded in 1946. , has been recorded.

Works

literature

  • Rudolf Maria Holzapfel : Holy Eternity. Poetry. From the estate, ed. by Bettina Holzapfel. DVA, Stuttgart / Berlin 1932.
  • Contributions by Rudolf Maria and Bettina Holzapfel, Wladimir Astrow, Hans Zbinden and Hans Rhyn: Wandlung. Sheets for pan-idealistic construction. Issue May 1 / June 1934. 48 pp.
  • New opportunities for development for art and plan for a physiognomic institute. Francke, Bern 1935
  • Face of the Great Creator. Planned and initiated by Bettina Holzapfel. Continued and ed. by Heinz Balmer . Birkhäuser, Basel 1961 ( introduction , PDF file, 245 kB).
  • As in a quiet pond. Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-8520-2057-3
  • Reisnerstrasse 13. My youth in Vienna at the turn of the century. From the estate, ed. by Monika Meyer-Holzapfel and Cedric Hausherr. Österreichische Verlagsanstalt & Schroll, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-7031-0513-5

sculpture

  • Spanish woman, bust in plaster, 1897
  • seated dreamer with bowed head, plaster of paris, 1912
  • seated dreamer with supported head, clay, 1912
  • Face created out of imagination, clay, early 1920s, only preserved as a photograph
  • Rudolf Martin Gomperz, half-bust in bronze, between 1920 and 1929

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa Wertheimstein
  2. ^ Anna L. Staudacher: Because of the Jewish religion - Findelhaus: Zwangstaufen in Wien 1816–1868, 2 volumes, Peter Lang, 2004, ISBN 3-6313-5198-4 . P. 431
  3. ↑ Klaus Amann, Hubert Lengauer, Karl Wagner: Literarisches Leben in Österreich 1848–1890, Böhlau Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-2059-9028-5 , p. 157
personal data
SURNAME Holzapfel-Gomperz, Bettina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomperz, Bettina; Crab apple, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Bern