Heinrich Boehler

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Alpine landscape by Heinrich Böhler, date illegible
Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge , heliogravure by Heinrich Böhler, 1909

Heinrich Böhler (born August 1, 1881 in Vienna , Austria or Oberweningen , Switzerland ; died February 4, 1940 in St. Moritz , Switzerland) was an Austrian-Swiss painter , photographer, and art collector .

biography

Heinrich Böhler was heir to the Styrian stainless steel works that his father Emil Böhler founded with his brother Albert Böhler . Emil Böhler died in Heinrich's first year of life in January 1882 as a result of an operation. His mother, Eleonore Böhler nee Eibel, came from Switzerland, which is why Heinrich Böhler also obtained Swiss citizenship. Heinrich Böhler received an economic education in England. There he met his future wife. In 1909 he married the American Mabel Forbes (1875-20 August 1963 in Lugano) in Vienna. Josef Hoffmann furnished her apartment at Belvederegasse 30, Vienna IV, rebuilt her house in Baden near Vienna and redesigned the gardens there.

1911–1913 the couple lived in Tokyo and Osaka. Heinrich Böhler and his cousin Richard Böhler ran the “Bohler Brothers & Co. Ltd.” branch established in 1908. Japan Branch ”. Heinrich and Mabel Böhler were enthusiastic about the Far Eastern atmosphere. The years were formative for her understanding of art. From September 1914 Heinrich Böhler took painting lessons from Egon Schiele in his studio in Belvederegasse in Vienna . Heinrich's cousin Hans Böhler was a painter and belonged to Schiele's close circle of friends and exhibited together with them. Heinrich Böhler paid Egon Schiele 200 crowns a month, even after he was called up for military service in June 1915. 1916–1918 Heinrich Tessenow built the country house “Villa Böhler” in St. Moritz for the couple (torn down in 1988/1989). The couple had another residence in Castagnola / Lugano . From 1926 Heinrich and Mabel Böhler lived in St. Moritz. The couple remained childless. After Heinrich Böhler's death in 1940, Mabel Böhler administered his estate. An important part of the Böhler Collection is in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Heinrich Böhler painted and collected art. He owned, among others, Egon Schiele's works Triestiner Fischerboot 1912, Houses with Laundry 1914, Yellow City 1914, House Wall on the River 1915, Mother with Two Children 1915 and Der Häuserbogen 1915. He also took photos with expensive equipment. In 1910 Heinrich Böhler took part in the annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society . Several pictures with Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge as well as a series of pictures with Stacia Napierkowska have been preserved. However, he remained more connected to painting.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Böhler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hilde Berger: Egon Schiele - Death and Maiden . Hollitzer Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-99012-456-7 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ A b Heinz Adamek: Art chords - diagonal: essays on art, architecture, literature and society . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20250-9 , pp. 127 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b L'oro e la danza. La Vienna by Gustav Klimt in the photography by Heinrich Böhler. In: biennaleimmagine.ch. November 25, 2012, accessed September 30, 2018 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Böhler, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss painter, photographer and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria or Oberweningen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1940
Place of death St. Moritz , Switzerland