Karoline Hafner

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Karoline Hafner-Scholz (born April 8, 1898 in Vienna ; † November 26, 1984 there ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Karoline Scholz was a student of Richard Harlfinger . She was a member of the Association of Austrian Women Artists.

As the wife of the painter Rudolf Hafner , it was not easy for her to assert herself with her work. Very often her pictures were shown with great success in her husband's exhibitions.

Karoline Hafner-Scholz at work

From 1924 she regularly took part in exhibitions, e.g. B. in the Künstlerhaus Theseustempel, in the Kunsthalle Zedlitzgasse, in Stockholm, in Bozen, in the Lower Austrian State Exhibition, in the Palais Palffy, in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna etc. Your pictures are in the possession of domestic and foreign collections and museums. The Lower Austrian State Museum alone owns 39 of her works.

Hafner-Scholz's pictures are occasionally shown at themed exhibitions. B. at the special exhibition of the Vienna Museum Artists in Austria in the Hermes Villa. The artist couple also shared a deeply felt love for nature in their artistic work and is strongly expressed in all of the painter's pictures.

The pictures are mainly mountain landscapes. They reflect the Austrian landscape, whereby the connection of what is seen is also always associated with an unmistakable mood and makes up the special charm of these images.

Karoline Hafner-Scholz also painted genre pictures . She painted farmhouses, kitchens and parlors, as well as people at work.

K.Hafner-Scholz: Farmhouses in Seefeld

Another motif of her pictures are flowers, the diversity of which she expressed emotionally but precisely represented.

While Rudolf Hafner painted rather strong and pasty, she represented the lyrical note. Her flower pictures show her safe and easy brushwork in watercolors . She was also an unerring portrait painter.

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  • Archive of the Künstlerhaus
  • Documents from the Museum of the City of Vienna, (now the Vienna Museum ), and the Lower Austrian State Museum.
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters. Years of birth from 1881–1900. Vienna 1976.
  • Art to the people. Magazine for friends of the fine arts. Issue 7/8, 1949.
personal data
SURNAME Hafner, Karoline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholz, Karoline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1984
Place of death Vienna