Helene Winger

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Helene Winger , b. Stein (born March 18, 1884 in Vienna ; † March 31, 1945 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Helene Stein was born as the fourth child of the Viennese publisher Markus Stein and his wife Nanette on March 18, 1884 in Vienna. Like her siblings Richard , Paula, Emma and Erwin , she was originally of Jewish faith and was later baptized into the Evangelical Confession HB .

Nothing is known about Helene Stein's education to this day; she appeared as a painter in the 1910s. The assumption was made that she was inspired to choose her career “through contact with numerous artists in her family's art salon” - including Oskar Kokoschka , Arnold Schönberg and Adolf Loos .

Around 1920 Helene Stein married the officer Richard Johann Winger (1873–1924) from Hamburg , with whom she had two sons, Richard (1919–1991) and Wolfgang (1921–1987). During the Nazi regime, according to whose terms she was “ fully Jewish ”, Helene Winger remained intact - probably also because she was the widow of a decorated Austro-Hungarian officer - but had to hand over her property to her children.

Helene Winger died on March 31, 1945 in Vienna and was buried in the grave of her parents Markus and Nanette Stein in the Döblingen cemetery .

plant

Helene Winger was a member of the Association of Austrian Women Artists and exhibited at the Stockholm Kunsthalle (1917) and the Vienna Künstlerhaus (1919). "The influence of the French Fauvists can be seen in Helene Winger-Stein's work, which is characterized by light, light colors ."

Work examples:

  • "Resting", around 1912
  • "Girl portrait", around 1914 (probably Maria Charlotte Stein )
  • "Netzflickerinnen", before 1917
  • "Girl with a Jug", before 1917
  • "Apple seller", around 1918/19

literature

  • Christopher Dietz: Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Maria Charlotte Sweceny. Letters 1938-1945. Vienna: Böhlau 2013, pp. 367–370
  • Tamara Loitfellner: Austria's forgotten female painters . www.frauenkunst.at, accessed on November 16, 2011 (with examples of works)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See on this and in the following: Christopher Dietz: Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Maria Charlotte Sweceny. Letters 1938-1945. Vienna: Böhlau 2013, pp. 367–370
  2. ↑ On January 19, 1886, see Anna Staudacher: Jüdisch-Protestantische Convertiten in Wien 1782-1914. Part 2. Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Peter Lang 2004, p. 96, FN 172
  3. ↑ Ch. Gruber and J. Mentschl: Entry “Stein Richard, Verleger”. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950. Vol. 13 (60th delivery: Staudigl – Stich [2008]). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences 2003–2009, pp. 153–154
  4. ^ Registration records of the Vienna City and State Archives
  5. ↑ Property traffic office of the Reichsgau Vienna: Letter to Ernst Geutebrück (copy in possession of Tamara Loitfellner, Mödling). Vienna, March 7, 1940
  6. ↑ Tamara Loitfellner: Austria's forgotten female painters . www.frauenkunst.at, accessed on November 16, 2011
  7. ↑ Ibid.
personal data
SURNAME Winger, Helene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stein, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1945
Place of death Vienna