Marianne Woitsch

Marianne Woitsch (born December 12, 1873 in Ottensheim near Linz , † July 24, 1945 in Linz) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Marianne or Marianna Woitsch, the daughter of tax inspector Anton Woitsch and Anna, born. Grubhofer was born in house number 78 in Ottensheim. The sinologist Leopold Woitsch was her brother.

Marianne Woitsch was initially a teacher, but gave up her profession in favor of painting. She completed her artistic training in Munich, Dachau and Karlsruhe with Max Feldbauer , Hans Lesker, Hans von Hayek and Hans Müller-Dachau . She lived in Linz and took part in exhibitions at the Upper Austrian Art Association there since 1917 . She was also part of the circle around Oskar Sachsperger, who ran an “art salon” from 1919 to 1926. In 1935 she received the state prize for her life's work.

plant

Marianne Woitsch was particularly valued as a painter of flower still lifes. But she also painted and drew landscapes and occasionally portraits.

In terms of color design, she undoubtedly benefited from Feldbauer, who developed the subject from his brush script. She mostly worked with a wider brush and captured her motifs without contours. In her still lifes, she sometimes lets the materiality of the arranged objects have a say. Vases and bowls made of shimmering glass stand next to shiny metal candlesticks, for example.

The state gallery of the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz owns several works, including two landscapes from the Dachau Moos and a view of the port of Linz.

literature

• The academic painter Marianne Woitsch. An obituary. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , No. 77 of September 11, 1945.
• Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Supplementary volume 2 L – Z, Vienna 1979.
• Brigitte Heinzl: The painting collection of the 20th century in the art history department of the Upper Austrian State Museum. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 124/1, Linz 1979, pp. 105-134 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
• Lorenz Josef Reitmeier : Dachau the famous painter place. Art and testimony from 1200 years of history. Munich 1989.
• 150 years of the Upper Austrian Art Association 1851–2001. Published by the Landesgalerie at the Upper Austrian State Museum and the Upper Austrian Art Association, Weitra 2001.