Friederike Klauner

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Friederike Klauner (born December 6, 1916 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † September 27, 1993 there ; also Friderike Klauner ) was an Austrian art historian . From 1973 to 1981 she was director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum .

Life

Friederike Klauner began to study history and German at the University of Vienna in 1935 . Two years later she switched to art history as a major and kept history as a minor. In 1941 she did her dissertation with Hans Sedlmayr and Camillo Praschniker on living space in Vienna's Biedermeier period .

Klauner then worked as a research assistant in the State Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna until 1943 . From 1943 to 1944 she worked at the library of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Vienna. From 1945 she worked at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, initially as a research assistant, from 1948 as a regular research assistant and from 1954 as curator . With Ortwin Gamber and Willibrord Neumüller she reorganized the picture gallery of Kremsmünster Abbey from 1963 to 1965 . In 1967 Klauner was appointed director of the picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. She received the title of Court Councilor .

In 1973, Friederike Klauner became the first woman in this position to be the director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. During her tenure, she opened the Ephesus Museum as well as new installations of the imperial carriage castle Schönbrunn and the Ambras Castle Art Museum in Innsbruck . She had a café-restaurant set up in the main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In addition, she tried to organize special tours for children. She retired in 1981.

Klauner died in 1993 at the age of 76 and was buried in the Neustift cemetery . In 2004, Friederike-Klauner-Gasse in Vienna- Strebersdorf was named after her.

Fonts

  • The living space in Vienna's Biedermeier period . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1941.
  • The church of Melk Abbey . Deuticke, Vienna 1946.
  • On the landscape of Jan Brueghel the Elder Ä. Årsbok National Museum, Uppsala 1952.
  • The picture gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Four centuries of European painting . Residence, Salzburg / Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7017-0203-9 .
  • From heaven through the world to hell. Content and meaning of paintings . Residence, Salzburg 1987, ISBN 3-7017-0504-6 . (With Günther Heinz .)

literature

  • Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Klauner, Friderike (Friederike) . In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - effect . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 373-376 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Klauner, Friderike (Friederike) . In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - effect . Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 373-374 .
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry for Science and Research (Ed.): 963 / AB XIII. GP - query response. II-2059 of the supplements to the stenographic minutes of the National Council . January 19, 1973 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed March 3, 2020]).
  3. ^ Almuth Spiegler: Thinking about pioneers. In: The press . March 5, 2009 .;
  4. ↑ Friederike Klauner in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at, accessed on March 3, 2020.
  5. ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, earlier names . 9th edition. Pichler, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-85431-687-9 , pp. 97 .
personal data
SURNAME Klauner, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klauner, Friderike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1993
Place of death Vienna