Emilie Mediz-Pelikan

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Karl Mediz, 1902. Jack Daulton Collection, Los Altos Hills, California.

Emilie Mediz-Pelikan (born December 2, 1861 in Vöcklabruck , † March 19, 1908 in Leubnitz-Neuostra near Dresden ) was an Austrian painter . The artist Karl Mediz was her husband.

Life

View from the Dürnstein castle ruins, around 1900
Sunset, 1907/08

Emilie Pelikan was the daughter of a civil servant and came from Upper Austria . In 1883, at the age of 21, she became the last private student of the landscape painter Albert Zimmermann . When he worked in Salzburg from 1877/78 , she accompanied him there, because her earliest known pictures with motifs from Bavaria and the Salzburg region date from 1884. He probably also encouraged her to follow him to Munich in 1885 . She stayed mainly in the Dachau artists' colony , where she was friends with Adolf Hölzel and Fritz von Uhde . In 1889 and 1890 he stayed in Paris and in the Belgian artist colony Knokke . In Dachau she met the painter Karl Mediz from Vienna , whom she met again in Knokke. The two went to Vienna in 1891 and married, but had no artistic success there. In 1893 Emilie Mediz gave birth to her daughter Gertrud in Krems an der Donau ; the later painter Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz (1893–1975). After a few stays in Dresden, the artist couple moved there entirely in 1894.

Travels took Emilie and Karl Mediz to Tyrol , Italy and the Adriatic . At the turn of the century, artistic success gradually set in. In 1898 she was represented at the first art exhibition of the Vienna Secession , in 1901 at the International Art Exhibition in Dresden. In 1903 she and her husband had a collective exhibition at the Vienna Hagenbund . In 1904 she showed graphic works in the Dresden royal court art dealer Richter , in 1905 and 1906 she exhibited in the Berlin Künstlerhaus. At the age of 47, Emilie Mediz-Pelikan died completely unexpectedly of cardiac paralysis.

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Emilie Mediz-Pelikan was one of the most important artists in Austria around 1900. In addition to graphics, she was mainly concerned with landscape painting . Already oriented towards the artistic development in Germany and Holland at an early age, she began with open-air painting in the Impressionist style, but found more and more peculiar symbolist works that express a mystical natural philosophy with which she, like her husband, was successful. In general, the artistic collaboration between Karl and Emilie Mediz has been very intensive.

During her lifetime, the artist received recognition from numerous prominent painters and from the art critic Ludwig Hevesi , who said of her picture, Ginsterfeld , “one has never seen such an impressionist theater in Munich”. After her death, which her husband could only cope with with great difficulty and whose artistic strength subsequently diminished noticeably, she was forgotten, as was Karl Mediz. The estate of both was administered by the State Art Collections in Dresden , but the heiress prevented exhibitions. When the GDR became the administrator of the estate, there was a willingness to hand over the pictures and graphics to Austria, but it took many years before this actually happened. A first exhibition in 1986 in the Upper Austrian State Museum brought back memories of the artist couple for the first time. After that, however, it took a few more years before it was rediscovered in the 21st century. Since then, pictures can be found again and again in exhibitions in established museums and the prices for works by the two of them at auctions are rising noticeably.

  • Moorland (Vienna, Belvedere , inv.no.7246) 1886, oil on canvas, 43 × 60 cm
  • Fishing boats on the banks of the Danube (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.7245), 1890, oil on canvas, 30 × 54 cm
  • Dunes with sea thorn near Knokke (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.7247), 1890, oil on canvas, 40.5 × 56 cm
  • Blooming chestnuts , (Vienna, Belvedere, inv.no.543), 1900, oil on canvas, 132 × 184 cm

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personal data
SURNAME Medical pelican, Emilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vöcklabruck
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1908
Place of death Leubnitz-Neuostra near Dresden