Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen

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Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen (also: Grete Martiny , born July 8, 1893 in Przemyśl , † August 18, 1976 in Graz ) was an Austrian sculptor , painter , children's book author and illustrator .

Biographical

Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen was born in Przemyśl as the daughter of Ludwig Friedrich Freiherr von Holzhausen and the painter Olga von Holzhausen (née Metzger). From 1910 she studied landscape painting with Alfred Zoff at the Landeskunstschule Graz . On December 28, 1921 she married Nikolaus von Martiny , who founded the Radstadt art ceramics Martiny in Radstadt in 1920 - since 1924 Alpine art ceramics Liezen . Their daughter, the artist Elisabeth Charlotte Martiny , was born in 1929. The family had lived in the Kreuzhäusler villa in Liezen since 1925 .

Since their marriage, Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen had worked in her husband's ceramics business in Radstadt and Liezen as a sculptor of Expressionist ceramic figures. Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen wrote and illustrated various children's books, a. a. The bear children and the Stolzohr family. A rabbit story . (Verlag Walter Flechsig, Dresden 1940/41).

In 1952 she moved to Graz, where she mainly worked as a portraitist and commercial graphic artist. Her works, "often in strong, contrasting colors, are influenced by symbolism, art nouveau and expressionism."

Awards

  • 1922 silver medal for an oil painting at an art exhibition in Salzburg
  • 1930 Austrian State Prize

literature

  • Cultural department of the state capital Graz: Olga Holzhausen - Margarethe Martiny-Holzhausen - Elisabeth Charlotte Martiny: Three generations of women painters . Graz City Museum 1992/93, ISBN 3-900764-13-1 .
  • Susanna Partsch : Holzhausen, Margarete . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 354 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.liezen.at/jsp/chronikds.jsp?report=ChronikPersonen&id=7091
  2. ^ Irmgard Gollner: Alpenländische Kunstkeramik Liezen . Association Schloss Trautenfels, Trautenfels 1990; Palina Hunger: From expressive to alpine art ceramics Liezen . Hottenroth, Scheibbs 2016. ISBN 978-3-9501412-5-2
  3. ↑ Susanna Partsch00: Holzhausen, Margaret . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 354 f.
personal data
SURNAME Martiny-Holzhausen, Margarethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martiny, Grete; Holzhausen, Margarethe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor, painter, children's book author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Przemyśl
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1976
Place of death Graz