Eugénie Heger-Gasser

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Eugénie Heger-Gasser
Eugénie Heger-Gasser , portrait in “The Humorist” from October 20, 1899

Eugénie Heger-Gasser (born December 18, 1861 in Freiberg , Neu Titschein district in Moravia , † unknown) was an Austrian academic portrait painter .

Life

Eugénie Heger was born as the daughter of Antonia and Albert Heger, district officials in Freiberg. She attended the arts and crafts school at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts with Siegmund L'Allemand , as well as at the painting school of Ludwig Minnigerode of the Austrian museum. She also studied at the art schools in Paris, Berlin, Dresden and Munich and enjoyed training in Italian and Dutch master galleries. In 1894 she married the arms manufacturer Johann Gasser (1847-1896) in Vienna, with whom she had a daughter, Eugénie Gasser (* 1895). In 1918 she married Baron Alfred von Catinelli. Johann Gasser owned an arms factory in Ottakring and a soft iron foundry in St. Pölten . Both places were also the residential addresses of the couple, which is why the well-known painter was also gladly seen by the St. Pölten people as a St. Pölten woman. After Johann Gasser's death, Eugénie Heger-Gasser married the Imperial and Royal Captain Count Karl Berchtold (1862–1915) in 1906 and then took the name Countess Eugénie Berchtold Freiin von und zu Ungarschütz, Frätting and Püllitz. Countess Eugénie Berchtold had an address in Vienna until 1914. In 1918 she was mentioned in various newspapers at the wedding of her daughter, then her trace is lost.

Works (selection)

Eugénie Heger-Gasser in her studio
Eugénie Heger-Gasser in her studio. Photo: kuk Hof-Photographer A. Huber (Sport & Salon, 1902)
  • Franz Keim (poet), chest and head, painting (oil / canvas 66 × 54 cm) (Eugénie Heger 1890),
  • Study head of a girl (oil / canvas, 55 × 43 cm), 1890
  • Emperor Franz Josef I in full figure for the Imperial Hall of the Grand Hotel Pittner in St. Pölten
  • Emperor Franz Josef I. for the conference hall of the Emperor Franz Josef Hospital in Vienna
  • Erich Graf von Kielmansegg (governor of Lower Austria), full-length portrait
  • Clementine von Sachsen-Coburg for the city hall of Sofia
  • Archduke Rainer of Austria
  • Baron Ludwig Possinger von Choborski (1825–1905, administrative officer, governor of Lower Austria)
  • Babette Devrient-Reinhold (castle actress)
  • Princess of Ghyka ( Transylvania ) (oil / canvas 210 × 125 cm), 1901
  • Madonna (oil / canvas 50 × 41 cm)
  • Madonna and Child (oil / canvas 85 × 68 cm)
  • Venus (oil / canvas 198 × 114 cm)
  • Female nude study (oil / canvas 81 × 45 cm)
  • Resting Venus (oil / canvas 147 × 206 cm), copy after Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder

Exhibitions (selection)

Grand Hotel Pittner (St. Pölten 1900) with the painting Emperor Franz Josef I by Eugénie Heger-Gasser
Grand Hotel Pittner "Kaisersaal" (St. Pölten 1900) with the painting Emperor Franz Josef I by Eugénie Heger-Gasser

In October 1899 an exhibition took place in her studio at Porzellangasse 54 in the 9th district of Vienna . From March 6, 1901 to March 31, 1901, she organized the portrait and study exhibition in the horticultural halls in Vienna. Among other things, a painting by Emperor Franz Josef I was shown there. At that time this painting was already in the possession of the hotelier Franz Pittner and adorned the imperial hall of the Grand Hotel Pittner in St. Pölten . Erich Graf von Kielmansegg , governor of Lower Austria and in 1895 Prime Minister of Cisleithanien , who was also portrayed by Eugénie Heger-Gasser, was also a visitor to this exhibition at the time .

Activities as a countess

Under her married name, Countess Eugénie Berchtold, she worked in the Association for Extended Women's Education (Women's Movement) (1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1913), for the exhibition “Das Kind” as patroness of this exhibition in Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna 9th district , Alserbachstrasse (1907) and in the Vienna Housewives Association (women's movement, 1909).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The humorist: Eugénie Gasser-Heger. In: ANNO-ÖNB. Der Humorist, October 20, 1899, accessed on February 9, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Wiener Salonblatt (HF): Eugenie Heger-Gasser (photo and short biography). In: ANNO-ÖNB. Wiener Salonblatt, November 26, 1899, accessed on February 9, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ St. Pöltner Bote: Painting exhibition "Painter Heger-Gasser a St. Pöltnerin". In: ANNO-ÖNB. St. Pöltner Bote, March 14, 1901, accessed on February 12, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ University of Heidelberg: Dorotheum Vienna. In: Heidelberg University. Dorotheum Vienna (auction list), March 1920, accessed on February 12, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Neues Wiener Tagblatt: Governor Count Kielmannsegg visits painting exhibition. In: ANNO-ÖNB. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, March 15, 1901, accessed on February 12, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Sport & Salon: ART. In: ANNO-ÖNB. Sport & Salon, January 18, 1900, accessed on February 9, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Heger-Gasser, Eugénie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian academic portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg , Neu Titschein district , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH after 1918