Frieda Salvendy

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Frieda Salvendy (born January 4, 1887 in Vienna ; died 1968 in Malvern , England ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

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Frieda Salvendy was born on January 4th, 1887 in Vienna. The Salvendys family comes from Neustadt an der Waag (now Néve Mésto nad Vahom in Slovakia, then Hungary). Salvendy grew up there. In 1902 Frieda Salvendy came to Vienna for school education. In 1912/1913 she studied at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar with Albin Egger-Lienz and Felix A. Harta . Her works have been documented since 1914. From 1920 to 1938 the artist lived in Vienna- Hietzing .

Salvendy was actively represented in the artists' association "Free Movement" (1918–1922). The group, which in addition to Katharina Zirner , Helene Funke, also includes painters Carry Hauser and Georg Ehrlich , composer Josef Matthias Hauer , Adolf Loos and Johannes Itten , saw itself as an opposition to Art Nouveau and decorative art .

Salvendy's works have repeatedly been seen in the exhibitions of the Association of Austrian Women Artists and the female artists' association “ Wiener Frauenkunst ” founded in 1926 . In 1922 she took part in an exhibition by the artists' association " Hagenbund ". In 1928 she was one of only a few women to be accepted as an extraordinary member of the "Hagenbund".

She went on numerous study trips to the countries of the Adriatic region, as well as to Italy, southern France and Slovakia. In the summer months from around 1930 to 1937, she spent time painting at Anna Lesznai's estate in Körtvélyes / Hrusov . She mainly painted landscapes from the Adriatic region and Slovakia, as well as still lifes with mostly strong colors, after 1950 often flower watercolors , as a graphic artist she mainly created landscape lithographs , sometimes in cycles (e.g. Vienna motifs , or the castles and ruins of the Scales ).

The art critics Hans and Erika Tietze were among their sponsors . The artist's works polarized contemporary art criticism because of their expressive, powerful style. In autumn 1938 or early 1939 Salvendy emigrated to England (Malvern / Worcestershire), where she died in 1968 - completely forgotten as an artist.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1922: Participation in an exhibition of the Hagenbund
  • 1931: collective exhibition in Prague

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literature

  • Frieda Salvendy . In: Jewish Museum Vienna (ed.): The better half - Jewish women artists until 1938 . S. 213 (exhibition catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to other information also in 1965
  2. ↑ a b c Frieda Salvendy . In: Jewish Museum Vienna (ed.): The better half - Jewish women artists until 1938 . S. 213 (exhibition catalog).
  3. ^ Austrian National Library: Women in Movement 1848–1938: Wiener Frauenkunst.
personal data
SURNAME Salvendy, Frieda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1968
Place of death Malvern (Worcestershire)