Emmy Wellesz

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Grave of Emmy and Egon Wellesz in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Emmy Wellesz , née Emilie Franziska (Emmy) Stross, (born January 8, 1889 in Vienna ; † June 13, 1987 there ) was an Austrian art historian .

Life

Emmy Stross was the daughter of the Jewish textile entrepreneur Ludwig Stross (1852–1913) and his wife Vilma, b. Propper (1861-).

She attended Eugenie Schwarzwald's private girls' school and from 1907/08 studied art history at the University of Vienna with Franz Wickhoff and Max Dvořák . In 1908 she married the composer and musicologist Egon Wellesz (1885–1974). The latter, who had just left Judaism, returned to the Jewish faith in order to be able to marry her. She interrupted her studies and had two daughters, Magda (1909-2006) and Elisabeth (1912-1995). On May 2, 1916, she was baptized as a Protestant. In 1918 she resumed her studies and received her doctorate in 1921 under Josef Strzygowski with the dissertation “ Gandhara in the context of comparative art research”.

She lived with her family in the Kaasgraben 36/38 house built by Josef Hoffmann in the “artists' colony on Kaasgraben”. In July 1938 the family emigrated to Great Britain, where her husband became a professor at Oxford University . She supported her husband in his research and continued to do research herself.

Publications (selection)

  • Buddhist art in Bactria and Gandhara . In: Josef Strzygowski: Customer, Essence, Development, An Introduction . A. Holzhausen, Vienna 1922, pp. 137–151.
  • The Buddhist Art of Gandhâra (= Library of Art History 73). Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
  • An Indian sheet of Islamic miniature painting . In: Josef Strzygowski Festschrift. Offered by his students for his 70th birthday. Klagenfurt 1932, pp. 178-182.
  • Akbar's religious thought reflected in Mogul painting (= Ethical and religious classics of East and West ). G. Allen & Unwin, London 1952.
  • The Vienna Genesis (= The Faber Library of illuminated manuscripts 5). Faber & Faber, London 1960.

literature

  • Dorothea Duda: Emmy Wellesz . In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 79, 1989, pp. 339–342 (with list of publications).
  • Dorothea Duda: Addendum to WZKM 79 (1989) Bibliography by Emmy Wellesz (p. 340 f.) . In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 83, 1993, p. 247.
  • Karl Johns: The long shadow of Emmy Wellesz, with a translation of her 'Buddhist art in Bactria and Gandhāra' . In: Journal of art historiography No. 19, December 2018 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Obituary from the company Noe Stroß AG of the united textile factories. Liebauthal and Weißwasser .
  2. ^ Genealogical page .
  3. ^ Certificate of Baptism .
personal data
SURNAME Wellesz, Emmy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1987
Place of death Vienna