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Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, before 1906
Family grave monument , before 1906

Ilse Beatrix Amalia von Twardowski-Conrat (born January 20, 1880 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † August 9, 1942 in Munich ) was an Austrian sculptor .

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Ilse Beatrix Amalia von Twardowski-Conrat's parents were the Jewish merchant Hugo Conrat (born June 2, 1845 - March 22, 1906) and his wife Ida (1857–1938). Her father converted to the evangelical faith with his family in 1882 and changed his name from Cohn to Conrat. He was a merchant and music lover and known to many artists of his time. Early on he had the gypsy songs set to music by Johannes Brahms (op. 103) recorded. The sister Erica Tietze-Conrat became the first Austrian art historian with a doctorate. The botanist and microbiologist Ferdinand Cohn (1828–1898) was her uncle.

Her parents' house was a meeting point for artists. Here she met artists such as Johannes Brahms, Ferruccio Busoni , Alexander von Zemlinsky , Fernand Khnopff and Charles van der Stappen. She also received her school education at home. However, in 1896 she went to a girls' high school to do her Matura , and she also received private lessons from Josef Breitner . From 1898 to 1901 she was in Brussels, where she was trained by the sculptor Charles van der Stappen .

From 1897/1898 she made the first drafts for a Brahms bust (Johannes Brahms Museum, Hamburg; Wien Mus.) As well as portrait busts of Empress Elisabeth (today: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), Theodor Gomperz , Alma Mahler-Werfel and Karl Wolfskehl, among others .

From 1901 she took part in international exhibitions in Munich. There she received a gold medal for wet hair . From 1902 to 1905 she had exhibitions with the Vienna Secession . In 1905 she was also found at the Venice Biennale . In addition, she received orders for portraits and tombs:

In 1907 she was represented in a collective exhibition at the Miethke Gallery (Vienna) and in 1908 she created the bronze monument Der ennelendere Gärtner and a monumental bench in the south park of Wroclaw for her uncle .

From 1910 she was Vice President of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ) and co-organizer of the retrospective exhibition “The Art of Women” (1910–1911 in the Secession ). In the same year she married the Prussian officer Ernst August Dobrogast von Twardowski . She traveled with him to the Orient and Europe until 1914 and achieved great success in the annual Roman exhibition in 1914 with the multi-figure washerwoman's fountain (bronze, whereabouts unknown), which was bought by Queen Mother Margaret of Italy . In the same year the couple moved to Munich. In 1917 she designed the tomb of the Twardowski family on the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin (destroyed). The couple had a daughter Elisabeth (born June 15, 1920).

From 1917 she worked for the Allach porcelain factory . Here she created, among other things, vessels, small sculptures, animal figures and chimneys. She was also able to win Ilse Leembruggen (* 1873), daughter of Leopold von Lieben (1835–1915), as a patron. This enabled her to create large-format figures and monuments (e.g. The Nameless ). The works were shown in many exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, London and Paris between 1918 and 1934. Her husband died in 1933 and after the seizure of power in 1935 she was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . She took refuge in inner emigration , destroyed numerous works and moved to Munich-Waldtrudering . When she was about to be deported in 1942, she killed herself.

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SURNAME Twardowski-Conrat, Ilse von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conrat, Ilse Beatrix Amalia von; Cohn, Ilse Beatrix Amalia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1942
Place of death Munich