Erica Tietze-Conrat

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Erica Tietze-Conrat (born June 20, 1883 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 12, 1958 in New York ) was an Austrian-American art historian .

Life

Erica Conrat came from an upper-class Jewish family in Vienna who had converted to Protestantism. She was the youngest of three sisters, the oldest of whom, Ilse , became a sculptor. The father Hugo Conrat (actually Cohn) was an avid music lover and was friends with Johannes Brahms . Erica was also highly musical, played the piano and was friends with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schönberg , through whom she met Karl Kraus . She also had a long friendship with Alma Mahler .

Erica Conrat studied art history at the University of Vienna with Franz Wickhoff and Alois Riegl and received her doctorate in 1905 with the dissertation Contributions to the History of Georg Raphael Donner . She was the first woman to graduate from Vienna University with a doctorate in art history. The work was supervised by Franz Wickhoff and Julius von Schlosser . In the same year she married her fellow student Hans Tietze , whom she actively supported in his far-reaching scientific activities throughout her life. The focus of her own research was on baroque sculpture.

The Tietze couple were friends with numerous contemporary artists. In 1909, Oskar Kokoschka painted the double portrait that is now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The sculptor Georg Ehrlich created two bronze busts of Hans and Erica Tietze (today in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna) and numerous portrait drawings of Erica.

In 1938 the couple emigrated to the USA, where Erica Tietze worked on art historical publications until the end of her life after her husband's death.

In autumn 2004 an International Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat Society was founded in Vienna , which has taken on the task of maintaining the entire oeuvre of the art historian couple.

Fonts (selection)

  • The art of women. An epilogue to the exhibition in the Vienna Secession. In: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst , NF 22, 1911, pp. 146–148.
  • Austrian baroque sculpture , Vienna 1920.
  • Oskar Laske , Vienna 1921.
  • Andrea Mantegna , Leipzig 1923.
  • French Renaissance copper engraving , Munich 1925.
  • The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries , New York 1944 (in collaboration with Hans Tietze)
  • Mantegna. Paintings, Drawings, Engravings , London 1955.
  • Georg Ehrlich , London 1956.
  • Dwarfs and Jesters in Art , London 1957.
  • "I then asked myself: what is the 'Viennese School'?" Memories of the student years in Vienna , ed. v. by Alexandra Caruso, in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 59, 2011, pp. 207–218 ( digital version ; presumably from 1958; mainly deals with Franz Wickhoff and Alois Riegl).
  • Diaries , 3 volumes, ed. v. Alexandra Caruso, Böhlau, Vienna 2015.

literature

  • Essays in Honor of Hans Tietze , Paris 1958 (with bibliography of the writings of Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat).
  • Almut Krapf-Weiler: Erica Tietze Conrat (1883–1958) and Alma Mahler-Schindler (1879–1964), an encounter. In: Nothing works without smoke! A celebration for the 50th birthday of Dr. Peter Rauch , Böhlau, Vienna et al. 1992, pp. 77–84.
  • Almut Krapf-Weiler: "Lion and Owl". Hans Tietze and Erica Tietze-Conrat - a biographical sketch. In: Belvedere , 1, 1999, pp. 64-83.
  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 699-703.
  • Almut Krapf-Weiler (Ed.): Erica Tietze-Conrat. The woman in art history. Texts 1906–1958 , Vienna 2007.
  • Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Tietze-Conrat, Erica , In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (eds.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 749-753.

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personal data
SURNAME Tietze-Conrat, Erica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1958
Place of death new York