Erna Engel-Baiersdorf

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Erna Clara von Engel-Baiersdorf (born Baiersdorf de Erdősi ; born September 24, 1889 in Vienna ; † July 30, 1970 in Vancouver , Canada ) was a painter , sculptor , renowned anthropological reconstructor and, in this capacity, worked for the Natural History Museums in Budapest and Vienna as well as curator of the Natural Science Museum in Pécs , Hungary.

Many of her works are kept in the museums mentioned, including the reconstruction of the Neanderthal , which was the standard at the time .

She also modeled merited rabbis from or in Pécs.

Life

Her parents were Councilor Carl Baiersdorf von Erdös and Clara von Baiersdorf, née Redlich.

On July 7, 1944, she was admitted to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and at the end of July 1944 transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp (prisoner number 25086), where she was still imprisoned on December 9, 1944.

Erna Engel-Baiersdorf lived and worked in Vienna, Budapest, Mühlbach / Transylvania, Fünfkirchen / Pécs and Vancouver.

Her first marriage was to Richard Erdősi Baiersdorf, her second marriage (since May 29, 1919) to Dr. Róbert Engel de Jánosi (1883–1943), the second son of Josef Engel de Jánosi .

Reconstruction work (selection)

  • Neanderthals
  • Australopithecus
  • Homo rhodesiensis
  • "Homo Tasmanianus"
  • Ituri Pygmies of the Congo
  • "Homo Aurignaciensis" Combe Capelle
  • "Homo Neolithicus"
  • Work on the "aneolithic race"
  • Anthropological works on Kymeriani, Illyrians, Scythians, Celts, Romans, Huns, Avars, Gepids, Hungarians
  • Anthropological work on people living in the Carpathian Basin
  • Working on ancient reptiles
  • Trachodon, Pteranodon dinosaurs
  • first Dimorphodon sculpture

Fonts (selection)

  • The Method of Reconstructing Human an Animal Remains in Sculpture and in Paintings , by Erna C. von Engel-Baiersdorf, FRAI In: Museum and Art Notes , Second Series. The Art, Historical and Scientific Association of Vancouver BC, Vol. 1, September 1949; there on the cover her sculpture of the flightable, approx. 126 million year old primeval animal Dimorphodon Macronyx
  • The dragon hole. A story from the Diluvium , o. O., o. J. [approx. 1928]

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personal data
SURNAME Engel-Baiersdorf, Erna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel-Baiersdorf, Erna Clara von (full name); Baiersdorf de Erdősi, Erna Clara (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Canadian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1970
Place of death Vancouver