Luise Kremlacek

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Luise Kremlacek ( May 13, 1904 in Vienna - September 7,  1990 there ) was an Austrian art dealer who devoted her entire professional life, a total of 62 years, to the Galerie Würthle in Vienna , across all political breaks .

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Luise Kremlacek attended a business school. In 1920 she was hired as an office worker in the art dealership Würthle & Sohn Nachf. In Vienna's Weihburggasse , not far from St. Stephen's Cathedral . She worked under the authorized signatory , then partner and finally sole owner Lea Bondi-Jaray , who had converted the art dealership into a modern gallery with a focus on young Austrian artists. Exhibitions on Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele took place in 1920 . Persecuted as a Jew as a result of the Nuremberg Laws , Lea Bondi-Jaray had to emigrate on April 7, 1939 and has lived in London ever since. The Salzburg art dealer Friedrich Welz aryanized the gallery and renamed it "Galerie Welz". Kremlacek remained employed as an employee during Bondi-Jaray's forced absence. After the Second World War she was appointed acting manager of the gallery in the course of the reversal of the " Aryanization " until it was restituted to Bondi-Jaray in 1948 . In 1953 Fritz Kamm and Fritz Wotruba took over the gallery, after which Hans Dichand was the owner. After several changes of ownership, Kremlacek worked as managing director until 1982. In a letter to Welz, the art historian Bruno Grimschitz reported on the change from Bondi to Kamm and Wotruba: “It was passed on like an inventory item!” In the last few years of her work, she had received such high recognition from artists as “Frau Luise” of customers acquired that she was considered the "gray eminence" of the Viennese art scene. She was known as a clever, fair businesswoman who stood up for the gallery's artists. In Profil magazine she was referred to as “the famous art dealer” who “held many strings in her hand” with regard to classical modernism. The draftsman Paul Flora posthumously called her a "mythical creature".

In 1982 she retired. She died in Vienna at the age of 86 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery.

There is a pastel drawing of a portrait of Luise Kremlacek by Josef Dobrovský from 1944.

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On June 20, 1991, 60 sheets from the collection of the late Luise Kremlacek were offered in the Dorotheum in Vienna . The works put up for auction included drawings by Egon Schiele of dubious provenance. They originally belonged to the Heinrich Rieger collection , who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis together with his wife. It was a portrait of a woman in three-quarter profile (1917) and church, houses, house, houses, mountain range in the background (1917). and Female Nude with Shirt Pulled Up (1914).

Award

literature

Luise Kremlacek, Hans Dichand (Ed.): 60 Years Galerie Würthle 60 Years Modern Art in Austria Volumes 1 and 2, Galerie Würthle, Vienna 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luise Kremlacek , in: Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografiA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. K , V&R, published online 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1808
  2. ↑ Roswitha Juffinger: Salzburger Landessammlungen 1939-1955 , DomQuartier Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-901443-28-2 , p. 94
  3. ↑ Gert Kerschbaumer: Master of Confusion. The business of the art dealer Friedrich Welz , Verlag Czernin, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3-7076-0030-8 , p. 105
  4. ↑ Gabriele Anderl, Alexandra Caruso (ed.): "Nazi art theft in Austria and the consequences", Studien-Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3706519564 , p. 164
  5. ^ Bernadette Reinhold: The Würthle Gallery. Fritz Wotruba and his exhibition program , in: Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Antonia Hoerschelmann (eds.): Gustav Klimt to Paul Klee, Wotruba und die Moderne (on the exhibition in the Albertina, Vienna, December 20, 2003 - March 14, 2004), edition Minerva, Wolfratshausen 2003, ISBN 978-3-932353-83-3 , pp. 70-81
  6. ^ Profile (Vienna): Hans Dichand was very ambitious as an art collector and even more discreet. Report by Sebastian Hofer, June 26, 2010
  7. ↑ Paul Flora: She was a mythical creature. Memories of Mrs. Luise , in: Galerie Würthle, founded 1865, Vienna 1995 (published on the occasion of the anniversary exhibition of Galerie Würthle, June 8th – July 1st, 1995), p. 43. Quoted in: Kristian Sotriffer: Wien-Zug und zurück. Fritz Wotruba, the Kamm family and the development of a collection , Kamm Collection Foundation, Zug , accessed on July 11, 2020
  8. ↑ Vienna cemeteries: Luise Kremlacek grave search , historical grave search , accessed on July 11, 2020
  9. ↑ Portrait Luise Kremlacek , Artnet , accessed on February 5, 2020 (with a black and white reproduction)
  10. ↑ Lisa Fischer: Somewhere. Vienna, Theresienstadt and the world. The Heinrich Rieger Collection , Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7076-0255-5 , p. 135
  11. ↑ Stephan Templ: The Disappeared Collection , DER STANDARD, print edition, March 5, 2002
  12. ↑ Female nude with the shirt pushed up, also the woman with the shirt pushed up , in: Lost Art , February 6, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kremlacek, Luise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1990
Place of death Vienna