Emilie Flöge

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Emilie Flöge (oil painting by Gustav Klimt, 1902), Wien Museum
Memorial plaques on the Casa Piccola house
Grave of Emilie Flöge in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Emilie Louise Flöge (born August 30, 1874 in Vienna ; † May 26, 1952 there ) was an Austrian designer , fashion designer and entrepreneur . She was the partner or muse of the painter Gustav Klimt .

Life

Emilie Flöge was one of three daughters of the master turner and meerschaum pipe manufacturer Hermann Flöge (1837-1897). She first learned to be a seamstress . At the age of 30 Emilie Flöge established herself as a fashion designer. From 1904 she ran the Viennese haute couture salon “Schwestern Flöge” together with her sisters Helene and Pauline . The salon was located in the Casa Piccola house at the beginning of Mariahilfer Strasse in the center (house no. 1b). The house was named after the coffee house Casa Piccola , which had been established there and was run by Lina Loos ' father from 1897 to 1918 . The coffee house was a meeting point for many creative people.

The Salon Schwestern Flöge was designed in Art Nouveau style by the architect Josef Hoffmann . Emilie Flöge presented model clothes that corresponded to the fashion taste of the Wiener Werkstätte . On her trips to London and Paris , she also found out about the latest fashion trends from Coco Chanel and Christian Dior .

In her prime, Emilie Flöge employed up to 80 dressmakers. After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich (1938), however, Flöge lost her most important customers. She had to close the fashion salon, which had previously become the leading fashion meeting place for Viennese society. Emilie Flöge now worked in her house at Ungargasse 39, where she lived on the top floor until her death.

In the last days of the Second World War , Flöge's collection of costumes and valuable items from the Klimt estate were burned here.

Emilie Flöge found her final resting place in the family grave of the Flöge sisters in the Protestant section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (8 + Allee 4).

Flöge and Klimt

Flöge was a fascinating person of Viennese bohemian and fin de siècle . She became the partner of the painter Gustav Klimt. Klimt was the brother-in-law of her sister Helene and previously a frequent guest in the parents' house. He painted them on many of his pictures from 1891. Experts believe that he portrayed Emilie Flöge and himself as lovers in his most famous picture, The Kiss .

In 1902 she was portrayed by Klimt alone, but she did not like the finished picture. Klimt promised to portray her again, but it never came to that. In 1908 the painting, which was not loved by the family , was sold to the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, now the Vienna Museum , where it can be seen. Flöge remained Klimt's muse; the two spent the summer of 1910–1916 together at the Attersee .

Klimt designed some “ reform clothes ” for Flöge's salon . These were dresses propagated by women's rights activists and designed by artists of the Vienna Secession from 1898 onwards . They were worn without a corset , hung loosely from the shoulders and had comfortable wide sleeves. But there were too few customers for this new type of clothing. That's why Flöge earned her money with conventional fashion. Klimt repeatedly portrayed ladies of the upper class Viennese society, u. a. Adele Bloch-Bauer , Eugenia and Mäda Primavesi , Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt , Friedrike Maria Beer and Johanna Staude, and was therefore able to bring wealthy customers to his partner. Gustav Klimt died in 1918.

In the spring of 2006 the feature film “ Klimt ” had its premiere, in which Emilie Flöge by Veronica Ferres and Gustav Klimt by US actor John Malkovich are portrayed.

Designs from the Sisters Flöge salon

  • Reconstruction of a dress from the Schwestern Flöge salon (1909)

  • Bathing dress owned by Emilie Flöges, design: Salon Schwestern Flöge (around 1910)

Appreciation

  • 2016 Street name Emilie-Flöge-Weg in Vienna, Favoriten
  • On the occasion of its three-year existence, in 2016 the Klimt Foundation, as the operator of the Gustav Klimt Center , commissioned the Upper Austrian author Clara Gallistl to produce the play “Sweet Viennese Darkness / Deep Bright Lake”. In the play, the aged Emilie Flöge from Vienna in the 1930s casts a longing look back at the time of the famous summer retreat and Secessionism .

exhibition

  • 2012: The Emilie Flöge collection of textile samples . Austrian Museum of Folklore , Vienna. Catalog.
  • 2016: Emilie Flöge - reform of fashion, inspiration of art . Special exhibition in the Gustav Klimt Center on the Attersee

literature

Web links

Commons : Emilie Flöge  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lore Brandl-Berger u. a .: Women in Hietzing. Walks and a documentary. (PDF; 5.1 MB) In: wien.gv.at. 2017, p. 40 , accessed October 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Vienna names the street after Maria Lassnig , orf.at, April 8, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ emilie-floege.com
  4. ↑ Press release at ots.at
  5. ↑ Special exhibition at ots.at
personal data
SURNAME Fly, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flöge, Emilie Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian designer, fashion designer and entrepreneur, partner of the painter Gustav Klimt
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1952
Place of death Vienna