Miljeva Ypsilanti

Miljeva Ypsilanti (born November 13, 1917 in Zagreb ; † June 25, 2013 in Lochau ) was an Austrian doctor and art patron.

Life

Miljeva Augusta Nevenka Ypsilanti was born in 1917 as the daughter of the Austrian officer Edmund Scholze and Countess Nevenka Tkalcic. She was related to the Yugoslav kings through her mother, and as a child she played with the future Peter II. Karađorđević . Due to the separation of her parents - the father married another five times - she came to Vienna at the age of twelve to live with her paternal grandparents, where she also grew up. After graduating from high school , she was one of the few women at the time to study medicine at the University of Vienna , where she also met her first husband, Albert Fuchs . In 1940 their only child, Marbod, was born. During her time in Vienna she made friends with a number of well-known Viennese artists and, through her contacts in Yugoslavia, helped a number of Jewish Viennese to emigrate.

After completing her studies, she worked as a psychiatrist , mainly with addicts. She continued to cultivate contacts and friendships in artistic circles and began to build a small collection of modern art. She was also passionately interested in classical music and interacted with well-known greats of the time, such as Friedrich Gulda . After separating from her first husband, she married the Austrian Baron Wolfgang Böck-Greissau, manager and inventor of the "cute cube", a forerunner of the Rubik's Cube . She moved with him to Würzburg for a few years , but returned to Vienna after separating from him.

She did not return to her medical profession, but instead practiced the art trade, mainly as a hobby. Since the 1960s she had close contacts with representatives of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism and was the model for a number of works. So there are of Kurt Fiala "The soul of Miljeva fox", and his "Clouds Palace" was painted for them. By Kurt Regschek there is a portrait and a triptych with three-time imaging of her head, and Ernst Fuchs has painted them.

Together with her first husband, she organized art exhibitions in Vienna and his hometown Bregenz and sponsored several young artists. She was a great friend of the Bregenz Festival and the Bregenz Forest, where she had rented a historic farm. So she moved her center of life more and more to Vorarlberg . She was also very interested in the works of the Bregenz Circle around Helmut Fetz , of which a portrait of her also exists.

A few years after her first husband remarried, she married her old friend Alexander (III.) Prince Ypsilantis , among others the father of the artist Georg Ypsilanti , in Vienna. Despite her age, her entrepreneurship continued. She had always enjoyed traveling and, even in old age, went on long-distance trips, such as to China and Central America, from where she brought back some works by local, modern artists.

Only after the death of her third husband did she withdraw more and more. From 2009 until her death she lived in the Jesuheim in Lochau near Bregenz.

swell

• Birgit Bolognese-Leuchtenmüller, Sonja Horn (ed.): Daughters of Hippocrates. 100 years of academic women doctors in Austria . ÖÄK-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901488-06-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/kurt-fiala-born-1929-in-vienna-the-soul-of-mi-1-c-3mt8u22e9u
2. ↑ http://austria-lexikon.at/af/Wissenssammlungen/Bibliothek/Regschek/Kurt_Regschek_und_die_Wiener_Schule
3. ↑ http://www.oktogon.at/Regschek/bio_regschek.htm
4. ↑ http://todesangebote.vol.at/typo3temp/pics/49843_big_2166dac3cf.jpg
5. ↑ http://www.peopoly.com/.../ypsilanti-miljeva--dr-med--bregenz_1fb7y.html