Nora Exner

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Nora Exner , married von Zumbusch (born February 3, 1879 in Vienna ; † February 18, 1915 there ) was an Austrian graphic artist, sculptor and ceramicist.

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Fish , woodcut 1903

Nora Exner came from one of the most famous academic families in ancient Austria. She was the daughter of Adolf Exner (1841-1894) and his wife Constanze Grohmann (1858-1922). 

She studied from 1902 to 1905 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Alfred Roller , Kolo Moser and Franz Metzner , and also in Munich and Rome. Since 1906 she was married to the dermatologist Leo von Zumbusch .

Together with her one year younger cousin , Hilde Exner , and Franz Fiebiger , she designed woodcuts of animals for a picture book. She showed sculptures at the Vienna Art Show in 1908 . In 1913 she exhibited at the Miethke gallery in Vienna.

Like her cousin, the artist devoted herself to caring for the sick and wounded during the First World War - and, like Hilde Exner, became irredeemably infected. She was buried in an honorary grave at the Dornbacher Friedhof .

literature

  • Maria Auböck (text contributions), Maria Marchetti (ed.): Vienna around 1900. Art and culture . (Exhibition catalog). Brandstätter, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85447-097-5 , p. 502.
  • Deborah R. Coen: Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-11172-8 .
  • Andrea Elisabeth Sebald: The criminal biologist Franz Exner (1881-1947). A scientist's tightrope walk through the era of National Socialism . Legal history series, Volume 380, ZDB -ID 553472-0 . Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna (among others) 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57975-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sebald: The criminal biologist Franz Exner , p. 29. - Text (family tree) online .
  2. ↑ Frauke Severit (ed.): I was all of that. Politicians, artists, eccentrics of Viennese modernism . Böhlau, Vienna (inter alia) 1998, ISBN 3-205-98922-8 , p. 132.
  3. ^ Grave site Nora von Zumbusch , Vienna, Dornbacher Friedhof, Group 9, No. 32A.

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personal data
SURNAME Exner, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nora von Zumbusch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1915
Place of death Vienna