Eugenie Breithut-Munk

Eugenie Breithut-Munk (* July 12, 1867 in Vienna ; † July 21, 1915 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist . She made portraits - and genre paintings , figurative drawings and etchings and one of the bookplate - artists of the Art Nouveau .

biography

Eugenie Munk learned drawing at the General Drawing School for Women and Girls from Franz Pönninger , was a student at the Vienna School of Applied Arts at the KK Austrian Museum, among others from Karl Karger and later from Alois Delug . She went to Munich to attend the women's academy , where she became a student of Ludwig Schmid-Reutte under the founder Bertha von Tarnóczy . With a scholarship, she was able to make study trips to Paris and London . In 1892 she exhibited for the first time in Paris in the Austrian department of the "Exposition des arts de la femme".

From 1900 Eugenie Breithut-Munk lived freelance in Vienna and was married to the Austrian sculptor and medalist Peter Breithut (* June 12, 1869 Krems, † June 3, 1930 Mannheim).

In 1901, Eugenie Breithut-Munk was co-founder of the group of eight women artists , initiated by Olga Wisinger-Florian in 1900 , which endeavored to make the works of women artists accessible to the public. In addition to Breithut-Munk and Wisinger-Florian, the founders of the group also included Marie Egner , Marianne von Eschenburg (1856–1937), Susanne Granitsch (1869–1946), Marie Müller (1847–1935), Teresa Feodorowna Ries (1874? - 1956?) And Bertha von Tarnóczy. The group of eight female artists exhibited at one to two year intervals from 1900 to 1909 in the Pisko art salon in Vienna. They invited other artists as guests to these exhibitions , such as Josefine Swoboda (1861–1924), Marie Arnsburg and Hermine von Janda . The art salon founded by Gustav Pisko (1866–1911) in 1895 , first Parkring 2, Vienna I. , from 1906 in Vienna III. , Lothringerstraße 14, was one of the most important art salons in Fin de Siècle Vienna . In fact, the "eight" full members in late imperial Austria were among the best-known and most successful artists. In 1906 the "Eight Lady Artists of Vienna" were represented at an exhibition in London's Earl's Court .

In 1908 Eugenie Breithut-Munk lived in Vienna VI. in Magdalenenstraße 39 and took part in the art show on Heumarkt, with Gustav Klimt as President of the Exhibition Committee and under the overall planning of Josef Hoffmann . In previous years she had often participated in exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus and with the Vienna Secession in the Vienna Secession building .

One of her students was the Austrian Elisabeth Jung (1884–1942).

Works (selection)

Children's dance (1905)

• Allegory on “Ceramics” and “Ore Foundry” , 1893, wall painting, Museum of Applied Arts , Vienna
• Bookplate Agnes Guttmann , London, 1900
• Bookplate Rudolf Fischer (Professor), Innsbruck, 1900
• Children's dance , 1905, Belvedere Winterpalais , Vienna
• Street in Vienna , 1906
• Street in Emden , 1906
• Street in Amsterdam , 1906
• Austrian farmers , 1908
• Ophelia , oil on canvas, 1909

literature

• Marianne Baumgärtner: The Association of Writers and Women Artists in Vienna: (1885–1938) , Böhlau, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-205-79702-9 , p. 338.

Web links

Commons : Eugenie Munk  - Collection of Images

• Eugenie Breithut-Munk in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library
• Eugenie Munk , on RKD

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary. In:  Neue Freie Presse , July 24, 1915, p. 18 (online at ANNO ).
2. ^ Manfred Neureiter (Ed.): Lexikon der Exlibriskünstler (M., Gr, .Z.), 4th, revised, expanded and corrected edition, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86460-394-5 , p. 467 .
3. ^ Peter Breithut in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
4. ↑ Article: Eight artists and their guests , Der Bund. Volume 1, No. 3 (1906).
5. ^ ARIADNE - project "Women in Movement" - "Group of Eight Artists, Vienna". In: ac.at. www.onb.ac.at, accessed on August 1, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Biography Josefine Swoboda (1861-1924) , on biographien.ac.at, accessed on August 1, 2016.
7. ^ Eight female artists and their guests (exhibition in Salon Pisko) , New Women's Life. 14th year, No. 1 (1902).
8. ^ Anton Hirsch: Die Bildende Künstlerinnen der Neuzeit , Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart, 1905, pp. 75–96.
9. ^ Imp. Royal Austrian exhibition: London, Earl's Court, 1906, Notice: Eight Lady Artists of Vienna , pp. 109-117; Eugenie Breithut-Munk: Street in Emden and Street in Amsterdam (watercolor) - for sale, p. 113.
10. ^ Provisional catalog of the Vienna Art Show 1908, p. 91.
11. ↑ XX. Exhibition by the Association of Austrian Artists Secession, Vienna, 1904. ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Julie M. Johnson: The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900 , West Lafayette, 2012, ISBN 978-1-55753-613-6 , p. 382. (digitized) Google Books
13. ^ KE Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg: German and Austrian library mark ex-libris , Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, 1901, p. 471: Ex-libris Agnes Guttmann, London, and Professor Rudolf Fischer, Innsbruck, 1900
14. ↑ Children's dance, oil on canvas, 1905, purchase 1096 Kunstsalon Pisko ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ XXVII. Exhibition of the Association of Austrian Artists Secession Vienna, Room VII., Eugenie Breithut-Munk: Straße in Vienna , 1906
16. ^ Austrian farmers, Eugenie Breithut-Munk, Kunstschau Wien 1908, room 12
17. ↑ Kunstsalon Pisko: auction of paintings by old and modern masters from the property of Dr. L .... g O .... l, Vienna , 1909, p. 6