Katharina Zirner

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Katharina Zirner ( November 24, 1890 in Vienna - October 18, 1927 in Kasauli , India), married Rapaport , was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Katharina Zirner's father, Max Zirner (1857–1918), actually Marton Zirner, was an imperial court jeweler and owner of the “Brothers Zirner” company with branches in Vienna and Budapest . Her mother Gisela geb. Rusk (1869–1930) came from a wealthy and respected merchant family in Vienna who owned several fashion houses. The mother was both entrepreneurial and active in charities. The parents married on March 10, 1889 in the Vienna City Temple .

Katharina Zirner had three brothers: Josef (1889–1915), Walther (1903–1963) and Felix (1905–1943). In 1902 the family moved into the recently completed Villa Zirner in Neue-Welt-Gasse in Vienna- Hietzing , opposite the later synagogue .

Katharina Zirner studied painting with Anton Faistauer , was enthusiastic about theosophy and impressed her contemporaries with colorful and expressive paintings in the style of Expressionism . Together with Frieda Salvendy , she shaped the artist group “ Free Movement ”, which in the immediate post-war years tried to cope with the catastrophe of the First World War in a time-critical manner, also with religious connotations . This group included the painters Georg Ehrlich , Helene Funke , Carry Hauser and Erich Heckel , the composer Josef Matthias Hauer , the architect Adolf Loos and Johannes Itten , the art theorist and founder of the theory of color types . The group found itself in opposition to Art Nouveau and decoration. At the beginning of 1921, the association's fourth group exhibition took place in the Lorenz Art Salon . More than 60 drawings and prints by Hauser, Heckel, Salvendy, Zirner and others were shown. She was also represented in exhibitions of the Association of Austrian Women Artists (VBKÖ).

In 1927 she married a fellow painter, Rudolf Rapaport, who later called himself Rudolf Ray in exile . The couple went on their honeymoon to India . Zirner was pregnant and died that same year a few weeks after the birth of her son Martin. The widower had to flee Austria after the National Socialists came to power. The son suffered from infantile cerebral palsy and died at the age of 17 in Vienna as a result of pneumonia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Unterweger: Zirner Gisela, b. Zwieback. In: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 03.Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , doi : 10.7767 / 9783205793489-025 p. 3648, online , accessed on March 13, 2020
  2. ↑ Lexicon of Austrian provenance research : Galerie Dr. Reichel , accessed December 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zirner, Katharina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rapaport, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1927
Place of death Kasauli