Dora Wibiral

Dora Wibiral (born in Graz in 1876 ; died in Weimar in 1955 ) was an Austrian craftswoman , writer and teacher at the Weimar School of Applied Arts .

Life

Her father Franz Wibiral was the founder of the Kupferstichkabinett at the Joanneum in Graz. After a short stay at the Kassel Art Academy , she moved to Weimar and became a master student of Henry van de Velde . In 1908 she became a teacher of ornamentation and color theory at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts, newly founded by van de Velde . From 1919 to 1920 she taught writing and design at the newly founded State Bauhaus in Weimar. Dora Wibiral was not a full-time teacher at the Bauhaus and taught in private rooms that were still available to her from the days of the arts and crafts school.

Dora Wibiral had a close friendship with the artist Dorothea Seeligmüller (1876–1951), with whom she lived in Weimar until her death. Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff , who was friends with them, called them “inseparable friends” and described them as “musically, painterly and handicrafts gifted, literarily well educated” and “humanly valuable”.

literature

Christina Ada Anders: "For the time being I have to stay alive". Alfred Ahner - From the letters and diaries of the Weimar artist (1890–1973) . Georg Olms Verlag, 2014, p. 183.
Michael Siebenbrodt & Lutz Schöbe: Bauhaus 1919–1933 Weimar-Dessau-Berlin . Parkstone International, p. 250.
Henry van de Velde: Henry van de Velde. Story of my life . Piper Verlag, Munich, 1962.

Web links

State Archive Thuringia - Main State Archive Weimar, State Bauhaus Weimar, No. 79

Individual evidence

↑ Dora Wibiral (Biographical details) , britishmuseum.org, accessed on September 13, 2019 (English).
↑ History of the collection . museum-joanneum.at, accessed on September 13, 2019 ("In 1923, under Karl Garzarolli-Turnlackh, the Kupferstichkabinett, founded in 1901 by Franz Wibiral.").
↑ Max Nehrling1919–1921 student at the Bauhaus , bauhaus.de, accessed on September 13, 2019 (“A year later, Nehrling then enrolled at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Weimar, where he took color lessons from Dorothea Seeligmüller as well as the ornament apprenticeship with Henry van de Velde and in the lessons of Dora Wibiral. ”).
↑ Volker Wahl: The Master Council Protocols of the State Bauhaus Weimar 1919 to 1925 , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, 2001, p. 389.
↑ Christina Ada Anders: "For the time being I have to stay alive". Alfred Ahner - From the letters and diaries of the Weimar artist (1890–1973) . Georg Olms Verlag, 2014, p. 183 ("In their shared apartment on Belvederer Allee they worked together artistically until their death (...).").
↑ Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff: In the change and in the transformation of time. A life from 1878 to [1963] . Edited from the estate by Reinhard R. Doerries. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, p. 201.

personal data
SURNAME	Wibiral, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian craftswoman, writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz
DATE OF DEATH	1955
Place of death	Weimar

[1] Dora Wibiral (Biographical details) , britishmuseum.org, accessed on September 13, 2019 (English).

[2] History of the collection . museum-joanneum.at, accessed on September 13, 2019 ("In 1923, under Karl Garzarolli-Turnlackh, the Kupferstichkabinett, founded in 1901 by Franz Wibiral.").

[3] Max Nehrling1919–1921 student at the Bauhaus , bauhaus.de, accessed on September 13, 2019 (“A year later, Nehrling then enrolled at the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Weimar, where he took color lessons from Dorothea Seeligmüller as well as the ornament apprenticeship with Henry van de Velde and in the lessons of Dora Wibiral. ”).

[4] Volker Wahl: The Master Council Protocols of the State Bauhaus Weimar 1919 to 1925 , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, 2001, p. 389.

[5] Christina Ada Anders: "For the time being I have to stay alive". Alfred Ahner - From the letters and diaries of the Weimar artist (1890–1973) . Georg Olms Verlag, 2014, p. 183 ("In their shared apartment on Belvederer Allee they worked together artistically until their death (...).").

[6] Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff: In the change and in the transformation of time. A life from 1878 to [1963] . Edited from the estate by Reinhard R. Doerries. Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, p. 201.