Elli Riehl

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Sign to the doll world Elli Riehl (2020)
Elli Riehl's Puppenwelt (2008)

Elli Riehl (born December 19, 1902 in Villach as Eleonore Urban , † September 8, 1977 in Winklern ) was a Carinthian doll maker .

Life

Elli Riehl was born on December 19, 1902 as the daughter of the Bohemian master carpenter Gotthard Urban (* February 5, 1872 in Wildenschwert ; † February 8, 1927 in Villach) and his wife Rosa (* 1875; nee Palese) in Villach and in baptized in the name Eleonore. She had two brothers and a sister. After the beginning of World War I , she attended the community school and then a two-year business school in Klagenfurt . On May 10, 1913, her father murdered Juliana (Julie) Palese (* 1877), his sister-in-law, in her villa. Greed was assumed to be the father's motive ; This was later ruled out, however, as the victim was financially stricken after the construction of her house. In court, the father, who had been in an asylum two years earlier, stated that he wanted to kill himself that evening with the revolver of a traveler living in his house in a nearby forest. Since he had not found the courage to do so, he had decided to visit his sister-in-law, who he would have shot in an insane state. In the years that followed, his father continued to run his carpentry shop, where he was repeatedly the victim of break-ins.

In the 1920s she attended a drawing course with the painter Leopold Resch , who was born in Lower Austria and grew up in Carinthia . As a child, Riehl preferred to play with dolls, but also pursued other leisure activities. So she observed nature, in which she also spent a lot of time with her dog, went hiking and began to write. Due to the death of his father and the resulting deterioration in the economic situation of his father's carpentry, Riehl was forced to earn money at a young age in order to be able to support the family. Among other things, she embroidered for the women's welfare organization during this time. Due to the difficult financial situation and the bankruptcy of the carpentry shop, which her mother had continued after her father's death, Riehl finally lost her parents' house in 1932. A year earlier she had married the railway official Otto Riehl († 1945) and had considered working as a teacher.

One noticed her technical talent when she gave the son of a befriended family a self-made doll in the form of a Carinthian halter boy due to lack of money. Due to the attention to detail and the difference to conventional dolls of that time, Riehl received orders for dolls. The most common motifs included mountain farmer children and “people next door”. As early as 1934, she had her first exhibition at the Vienna Spring Fair, where she showed 26 children's dolls and fairy tale characters on her own, loan-financed stand. The exhibition brought her a great success, so that she was fully booked for two years afterwards. In 1937 she began delivering to a Viennese wholesaler, at which point her mother and sister already supported her in production in order to be able to process the orders and support the two who had previously lost their jobs. After the outbreak of the Second World War , the demand for Riehl's dolls fell sharply, whereupon she began to work on folk types and costume dolls, which were sometimes intended for the winter relief organization. During this time she created an Old Carinthian wedding procession on behalf of the Gauleitung under Friedrich Rainer , which was intended as a birthday present for the Führer . Hitler in turn handed over the wedding procession to the Carinthian local history museum for safekeeping and a photo album on which the entire procession can be seen in group and individual shots became Hitler's direct possession. What happened to it after World War II is not known; To this day (as of 2020) the wedding procession is considered lost.

As a wage calculator, she was then called up for military service by the Wehrmacht , before her doll-making was soon considered more important again and she could concentrate more on the production of such dolls. During the Second World War, she set up a local history museum in 1943. After the war and the death of her husband, who also died in 1945, Riehl moved in with a mountain farmer friend in Buchholz at a meeting on Lake Ossiach . There she worked in the fields during the day and took care of the manufacture of her dolls in the evening, again using mountain farmers' children as motifs. During this time she also met the former head of the Villach court, Dr. Rudolf Kraus († 1972), who was her partner until his death. During this time she also received orders from the United States , including making Christ and the 12 Apostles in doll form. In 1950 Riehl moved to the neighboring village of Winklern , where she began to make her adult people as dolls. A year later, her dolls were shown as part of a general exhibition of the Carinthian Professional Association of Visual Artists in Klagenfurt. In 1969 she was given a flower garden behind the farmhouse on the farm of the Berger family, commonly known as Printschler, in order to recover from her work. After the death of her partner, Riehl, who worked as a doll artist for 45 years, set up a small doll museum in her apartment in 1973, which is still run today (as of 2020) as Puppenwelt Elli Riehl . For her museum, she created a second Carinthian wedding procession consisting of around 130 different figures in 1974/75, which can be seen in full in the museum to this day. On September 8, 1977, Riehl died at the age of 74 in Winklern; her grave of honor is at the entrance to the parish church Treffen.

Their typical dolls - mostly 5 to 15 cm tall, detailed and expressive - are described as "folkloric miniatures from domestic work and leisure life". She often created ensembles from several dolls, including the nativity scene of the parish church , which was donated in 1976 , in which she also incorporated a self-portrait. Riehl donated many of her original dolls to a foundation while she was still alive. Today (as of 2020) Riehl is often seen as a “social critic with a needle and thread”. Their dolls were often given to politicians and guests as official gifts from Carinthia.

reception

Memorial plaque for the honorary citizen in Treffen (2020)

Her name is still widely known in Carinthia. The Carinthia-Verlag from Klagenfurt has published the Elli-Riehl calendar with their dolls as a motif every year since 1972 . Photos of their dolls are also printed in books. There is an Elli-Riehl-Strasse in Maria Saal . The Austrian Neofolk band Elli Riehl has named itself after the artist.

Your exhibition Puppenwelt Elli Riehl was expanded in several stages. In addition to her originally furnished study, she also shows around 700 of her dolls. For the redesign - major renovations took place in 1990 and 1999 - the private, family-run museum was awarded the Museum Seal of Quality of the State of Carinthia in 2000. Elfriede Berger, who belongs to the Berger farming family, has been the museum director for over 40 years (as of 2020). On June 21, 2014, a community square at the driveway to the Puppenwelt was named Elli-Riehl-Platzl ; there is also a glass memorial plaque here. In 2017 the dolls in the collection were re-inventoried, with folklorist and ethnologist Petra Streng leading the project.

At the parish church, where her honorary grave is, there is now a memorial plaque to remember the honorary citizen of the meeting.

Today (as of 2020) there are already numerous replicas of their dolls.

A picture mark for Elli Riehl was designed by the artist Felix Kraus , her brother Rudolf Kraus, her partner. The logo Riehl ( Elli Riehl Seal ) and the word mark Elli Riehl are official and officially certified as Union brand in the Office of the European Union Intellectual Property registered.

literature

Web links

Commons : Elli Riehl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elli-Riehl-Puppenwelt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2008 ; Retrieved April 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ elli-riehl-puppenwelt.at ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elli-riehl-puppenwelt.at
  3. ↑ From the jury. Common murder .. In:  Free votes. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , September 19, 1913, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on August 23, 2020
  4. ↑ Carinthia. Villach .. In:  Grazer Tagblatt / Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine countries / Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Morgenblatt. Morning edition of the Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Abendblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Grazer Tagblatt / (Süddeutsches) Tagblatt with the illustrated monthly “Bergland” , February 10, 1927, p. 13 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb, accessed on August 23, 2020
  5. ↑ a b (The murder in Villach.). In:  foreigners sheet of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet and tag news of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet / foreigner sheet with Vedette / foreigner sheet with military supplement Die Vedette , May 14th 1913, p. 12 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fdb, accessed on August 23, 2020; given here as Gottfried ; the sister-in-law mistakenly called Irma
  6. ↑ a b Murder in Bismarckstrasse .. In:  Free votes. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , May 14, 1913, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on August 23, 2020; here as Gottfried indicated
  7. ↑ From the jury. Common murder .. In:  Free votes. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , September 19, 1913, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on August 23, 2020
  8. ↑ a b Villach. (Delivered to the regional court.). In:  Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , May 18, 1913, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / knz, accessed on August 23, 2020
  9. ^ Drive belt theft. In:  Free votes. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , May 29, 1918, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on August 23, 2020
  10. ↑ Villach. (A fugitive Russian thief.). In:  Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , June 4, 1918, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / knz, accessed on August 23, 2020
  11. ^ Villacher news. Big break-in in the Urban joinery.). In:  Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , March 6, 1920, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / knz, accessed on August 23, 2020
  12. ↑ [Bankruptcies. . ] In:  Grazer Tagblatt / Grazer Tagblatt. Organ of the German People's Party for the Alpine countries / Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Morgenblatt. Morning edition of the Neues Grazer Tagblatt / Neues Grazer Abendblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Grazer Tagblatt / (Süddeutsches) Tagblatt with the illustrated monthly magazine "Bergland" , March 12, 1931, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb, accessed on August 23, 2020
  13. ^ From the Carinthian Official Gazette. . ] In:  Alpenländische Rundschau. Non-political weekly for the entire Alpine countries / Alpenländische Rundschau , March 28, 1931, p. 19 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / alp, accessed on August 23, 2020
  14. ↑ a b A Carinthian farmer's wedding. In:  Alpenländische Rundschau. Non-political weekly for the entire Alpine countries / Alpenländische Rundschau , August 5, 1944, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / alp, accessed on August 23, 2020
  15. ↑ Elli Riehl Str. In: google.at. Google Maps, accessed February 12, 2018 .
  16. ↑ New Masters. (No longer available online.) Carinthia Chamber of Commerce, archived from the original on July 12, 2001 ; Retrieved April 6, 2015 .
  17. ↑ elli-riehl-puppenwelt.at ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elli-riehl-puppenwelt.at
  18. ↑ a b c d Interesting facts from the doll world on the official website of the doll world Elli Riehl , canceled on August 23, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Riehl, Elli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urban, Eleonore (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doll maker
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach , Carinthia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1977
Place of death Winklern , Carinthia , Austria