Fritzi Ulreich

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The war bridge near Belgrade , 1915

Fritzi Ulreich (more rarely Friederike Ulreich , born November 19, 1865 in Klosterneuburg ; † April 10, 1936 there ) was an Austrian landscape , genre and war painter .

life and work

Biographical data about one of the few women war painters in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War is little known to date. Fritzi Ulreich was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian officer and had a severe physical handicap. As one of only six female war painters , she was accepted into the art group of the Austro-Hungarian War Press Quarter in 1914 , in whose service she remained until 1918. In the first year of the war, 1914, she went to the south-eastern front (Balkan front) in Belgrade, where she painted the destroyed or dilapidated fortifications and repeatedly soldier graves. She donated the wages she received for these works to the kuk Invalidenfond. Some of these paintings were also assigned to the then Imperial and Royal Army Museum (today: Army History Museum ), in whose collection of paintings the pictures are still to this day.

For the period shortly before and after the First World War, it is certain that Fritzi Ulreich worked in Vienna and lived at Burgring No. 5. The oil painting was abandoned at the 279th art auction of the Vienna Dorotheum on November 16 and 23, 1917 ; at the 283rd art auction on March 21, 1918 the painting The Court Concert , signed and dated 1912, was offered. On November 9, 1935, the painting Tivoli near Rome , signed and dated 1910, was auctioned at the Albert Kende art auction in Vienna .

Works (excerpt)

  • The War Bridge near Belgrade , 1915, oil on canvas, approx. 50 × 100 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna
  • Submerged steamer Fertö , 1914/18, oil on canvas, approx. 40 × 80 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century , Vienna 1979, supplementary volume 2, page K 140.
  • Liselotte Popelka: The muses were not silent , in: Adalbert-Stifter-Verein (ed.): Muses to the front. Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918 . Part 1 (Articles), pp. 64–78.
  • Ilse Krumpöck: Suffragettes or shotgun women? War painters in the First World War , in: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Hrsg.): Viribus Unitis. 1998 annual report of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna, 1999, pp. 44–53

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liselotte Popelka: The muses were not silent, in: Adalbert Stifter Verein (ed.): Muses to the front. Writer and artist in the service of the Austro-Hungarian war propaganda 1914-1918. Part 1 (Articles), pp. 64-78
  2. ↑ Walter Reichel: "Press work is propaganda work" - Media Administration 1914-1918: The War Press Quarter (KPQ) . Communications from the Austrian State Archives (MÖStA), special volume 13, Studienverlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7065-5582-1 , p. 184.
  3. ^ Heinrich Fuchs, The Austrian Painters of the 19th Century, Vienna 1979, Supplementary Volume 2, Page K 140
  4. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 166
personal data
SURNAME Ulreich, Fritzi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulreich, Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian war painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Klosterneuburg
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1936
Place of death Vienna