Leopoldine Springschitz

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Leopoldine ("Lee") Springschitz (born March 17, 1914 in Vienna ; † November 26, 2004 there ) was an Austrian art historian and museum director .

life and work

Carinthian State Gallery in Klagenfurt

After attending primary and secondary school in Vienna and graduating from high school, Springschitz studied philosophy, linguistics and art history at the University of Vienna from 1933 to 1938 . In preparation for her dissertation, she spent two semesters doing research at the Herder Institute in Riga . In 1938 she received her doctorate on the subject of "The Baltic poet Werner Bergengruen " in Vienna.

Between 1938 and 1952 Springschitz worked, among other things, as a publisher's editor, editor, cultural journalist and cultural critic in Vienna and Klagenfurt . After moving to Klagenfurt, she worked for the Klagenfurt newspaper published by Kleinmayr-Verlag . Edith Kleinmayr ran an art gallery on Alten Platz, in which Maria Lassnig (1948) and Arnulf Rainer (1951) were exhibited for the first time. From 1952 Springschitz designed programs for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation , State Studio Carinthia.

In 1952 she was initially an exhibition assistant, then a curator at the Carinthian State Museum in the Art and Numismatics section. With the support of the director Gotbert Moro , she mainly designed exhibitions of modern art . In 1956, she was appointed director of the Kärntner Landesgalerie (now the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art ), which was reopened in the castle and headed it until 1975.

For the XXXVII taking place from June 18 to October 10, 1976. The Venice Biennale was Lee Springschitz's commissioner for the Austrian pavilion. She was also the first woman to be entrusted with this task. The selection of the artists shown by her, Rudolf Hoflehner , Rudolf Kedl , Wolfgang Walkensteiner and Reimo S. Wukounig , did not go without criticism in the press.

Springschitz was the editor and author of numerous papers and articles on ancient numismatics and contemporary Austrian art. On her retirement she received the Carinthian state title Real Hofrat i. R. awarded.

Fonts

  • 3. Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Thracia, Macedonia, Peonies, Dreer Collection in the State Museum for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1990. ISBN 3-900575-06-1
  • Slovenian painting from Baroque to Impressionism: from the National Gallery in Laibach , Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt 1973
  • Hoflehner, Kedl, Wukounig, Walkensteiner: XXXVII. Biennale di Venezia 1976, Austria, Gistel & Cie, Vienna 1976
  • Catalog of the Kärntner Landesgalerie , Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt 1966
  • Arnold Clementschitsch , Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt 1957
  • Viennese fashion through the ages: A contribution to the cultural history of Old Vienna , Wiener Verlag, 1949

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Rumpler, Ulfried Burz (ed.): Carinthia: from the German border mark to the Austrian federal state , Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1998, ISBN 978-3-20598792-5 , p. 616
  2. ^ Agnes Husslein-Arco, Matthias Boeckl: Eremiten-Kosmopoliten: modern painting in Carinthia 1900-1955 , Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Springer, Heidelberg, 2004 ISBN 978-3-21121405-3 , p. 439
  3. ^ Austria and the Venice Biennale 1895–2011 on the website of the Venice Biennale
  4. ↑ Arnulf Rainer said about Springschitz's selection: ... at least half is the deepest epigonal province, which of course is wrong at a world exhibition . In: profil , Volume 7, Wirtschaftstrend Zeitschriftenverlag, 1976
personal data
SURNAME Springschitz, Leopoldine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Springschitz, Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2004
Place of death Vienna