Heddi Hirsch

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Heddi Hirsch , née Hedwig Hirsch , married Heddi Hirsch-Landesmann (born April 9, 1895 in Vienna ; died April 9, 1947 in Cambridge ) was an Austrian fashion and textile designer , illustrator and graphic artist . She was a member of the artist community of the Wiener Werkstätte .

life and work

On April 4, 1895, Hedwig was the youngest daughter of Hermine, b. Ebstein and Bernhard Hirsch born in Vienna. Her father was the owner of a textile wholesaler. After completing her school education, she began a four-year course at an art school for women and girls in Vienna in 1910 . In 1913 she enrolled in addition to courses at the graphic teaching and research institute . From 1914 she studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . Her teachers included u. a. the sculptor Franz Barwig d. Ä. , the painter and designer Franz Čižek and the architect and designer Josef Hoffmann .

Heddi Hirsch specialized in the design of fabric samples and the illustration of fashion designs. During the First World War she worked on Otto Lendecke's fashion magazine Die Damenwelt . Heddi Hirsch participated in Viennese fashion exhibitions with her own designs. Since 1917 she has designed fabrics, clothes and accessories , etc. as a freelance and later as a permanent employee in the fashion department for the Wiener Werkstätte . a. Hats. One of her economically most successful fabric designs was the floral fabric design 'Lymphe', which was produced in countless color combinations for the Wiener Werkstätte. In addition, she illustrated for the artist community, u. a. the fashion designs by Gertrud Brandt, Dagobert Peche , Maximilian Snischek, Eduard Joseph Wimmer-Wisgrill and Marianne Zels. She designed the graphic designs for catalogs, advertisements and posters for the Wiener Werkstätten.

On June 6, 1919, she married Felix Landesmann, who came from Ústí nad Labem and who moved to the management of his father's company. After the death of Bernhard Hirsch, Felix Landesmann took over the management in 1931. After the “ Anschluss” of Austria , the reprisals against the Jewish citizens in Vienna steadily increased. Hedwig's brother-in-law, Paul Kaufmann, was arrested and taken to Dachau concentration camp . The Hirsch-Landesmann family made great efforts to leave the country as quickly as possible. While the family of Heddi's sister Bertha managed to emigrate to the United States , Heddi was able to travel to England with her husband and mother Hermine on August 15, 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War . The family was housed in separate accommodations in Cambridge , where they spent the wartime under simple circumstances. Felix Landesmann fell ill towards the end of the war. In order to worry about the accommodation and care of the elderly and sick mother, Heddi Hirsch-Landesmann was looking for treatment options and accommodation for the mentally ill husband.

On her 52nd birthday, Heddi Hirsch-Landesmann committed suicide in Cambridge out of desperation over her husband's incurable disease. She was buried in Cambridge City Cemetery.

Her fabric designs for the Wiener Werkstätten can now be found in renowned art and design museums at home and abroad. a. at the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum .

Fabric samples for the Wiener Werkstätte (selection)

Printed silk, dance couple design (Wiener Werkstätte, 1915); Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Printed silk border, dance couple design (Wiener Werkstätte, 1915); Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Fabric 'dancing couple' (1915)
  • 'Rock crystal' fabric (1915)
  • 'Krupp' fabric (1917)
  • Fabric 'Nedschibe' (around 1917)
  • 'Blue Fox' fabric (around 1920)
  • 'Lymph' fabric (around 1923)

Web links

Commons : Heddi Hirsch-Landesmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cally Blackman: 100 years of fashion illustration . Laurence King, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-85669-462-9 , pp. 44 .
  2. ↑ Ilse Korotin: BiografiA: Lexicon of Austrian women . 1st edition. Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1307 .
  3. ^ Angela Völker: Wiener Mode & Modefotografie . Ed .: Austrian Museum for Applied Art. Schneider-Henn, Munich 1984, p. 138 .
  4. ↑ a b Museum of Applied Arts: Heddi Hirsch. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  5. ^ Industrie-Compass: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary . Compassverlag, 1931, p. 1466 .
  6. ^ Claims Resolution Tribunal Case No. CV96-4849: Bertha Kaufmann, Hedwig Landesmann and Hermine Hirsch. (PDF) Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Leo Baeck Institute (Ed.): Unger Family Collection 1939-1971 . New York July 30, 1960, p. 1116 ff .
  8. ↑ Staal met Bedrukte zijde, dessin couple, Wiener Werkstätte, 1915. Retrieved on March 4, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ Heddi Hirsch | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hirsch, Heddi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Hedwig (maiden name); Landesmann, Hedwig (married name); Hirsch-Landesmann, Heddi (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile and fashion designer, illustrator and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1947
Place of death Cambridge