Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer
Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer , short: Emmy Singer , (born September 8, 1884 in Voitsberg , Styria , † May 12, 1980 in Graz ) was an Austrian graphic artist and painter.
Life
Emmy Singer was born in Styria in 1884. Her father was Carl Singer († 1929 in Graz), mining inspector in Zangtal near Voitsberg, her mother Emma, née Steinlechner. Her parents offered her a solid education (outside the academy, which was then inaccessible to women) in Berlin , Graz, Vienna , Dachau and, above all, Munich . Here she learned drawing and etching from the most famous etcher in the German-speaking world, Prof. Oskar Graf from Freiburg. She was one of the few artists who at the time owned their own copper plate press.
Emmy Singer first became known as the illustrator of the three West Styria books by Hans Kloepfer , the children's and house fairy tale book by Viktor Geramb and a series of large etchings from the glacier regions of the main Alpine ridge, where she sustained severe fractures when she fell from a particularly daring location. From 1913 to 1916 she worked intensively on the creation of the Styrian Folklore Museum in Graz. In 1926 she married the mining engineer Gustav Hiesleitner, with whom she (42 years old) had a son. The family survived the Second World War in Graz. The artist's late works (from trips to Southeast Europe on which she accompanied her husband) can be found in the Austrian Ethnographic Museum in Kittsee Castle in Burgenland.
In 1972 Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer became an honorary citizen of the township of Semriach . During his lifetime, Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer was honored with over ten state and federal awards as well as with over twenty important exhibitions. Since her death on May 12, 1980, six special exhibitions of her works have taken place. The Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz commemorated the 25th anniversary of her death in 2005 with two special exhibitions: her farm drawings collection in the Folklore Museum and views of the area and landscapes in the Neue Galerie.
literature
- E. Lasnik and P. Strnad (Eds.). Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer. Pictures from bygone days - farmsteads, places, landscapes. 234 images on 224 pages. Verlag für Collectors , Graz, 2005. ISBN 3-85365-211-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Emmy Hiesleitner-Singer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emmy - the book with a summary of the content of the monograph on Emmy Singer in several languages.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiesleitner-Singer, Emmy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Singer, Emmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian graphic artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voitsberg , Styria |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1980 |
| Place of death | Graz , Styria |