Franziska Kantor
Franziska Kantor (born July 17, 1903 in Payerbach ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .
Life and artistic career
Franziska Kantor was born on July 17, 1903 in Payerbach. Her mother was Adele Kantor, née Wolf (died 1923), and her father was the businessman Heinrich Kantor (born June 7, 1876 in Vienna; murdered July 7, 1942 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto ).
Kantor studied from 1920 to 1922 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Franz Čižek . After that, from 1923 to 1924, she studied with Adolf Boehm and Rosalia Rothansl in the textile workshop. She is one of the few representatives of Viennese kineticism , her few surviving works show a proximity to Futurism and Expressionism . On December 22nd, 1927 she married the Budapest doctor Aladar Szanto (born on September 12th, 1897, also Szántó) in the Vienna City Temple , nothing is known about her further life.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1921: Exhibition of the Čižek class in the Museum of Art and Industry
Works (selection)
- 1921: longing for love
- 1922: Attempt of a kinetic sculpture (reproduction of the rhythmic sequence of a movement - dancer) , plaster cut
literature
- Franziska Kantor . In: Jewish Museum Vienna (ed.): The better half - Jewish women artists until 1938 . S. 208 (exhibition catalog).
Individual evidence
- ^ Franziska Kantor . In: Jewish Museum Vienna (ed.): The better half - Jewish women artists until 1938 . S. 208 (exhibition catalog).
- ^ Franziska Kantor . In: Belvedere Vienna (ed.): City of women . 2019, p. 243 (illustration in exhibition catalog).
- ^ Franziska Kantor . In: Jewish Museum Vienna (ed.): The better half - Jewish women artists until 1938 . S. 54 (illustration in exhibition catalog).
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| SURNAME | Cantor, Franziska |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kántor, Franciska |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Payerbach |