Nora Scholly

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Nora Scholly (born April 11, 1905 in Pressburg (also Pressburg, today: Bratislava ); † October 21, 1965 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian academic painter, children's book author and publisher. A hallmark of her literary activity was that she often gave animals, trees and flowers a human face in her books and thus alluded to the unity of man and nature. Her book and art business as well as the publishing house were based in the Upper Austrian town of Bad Ischl.

Career

Nora Scholly was born in 1905 in Pressburg, which at that time belonged to the Hungarian half of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy . She came from an old Austrian officer family. In 1920 the family (father Major Hans Scholly, mother Emmy, sister Edith and 15-year-old Nora) moved to Bad Ischl. After completing compulsory school, Nora graduated from the Vienna Women's Academy and the Graphic Research Institute Vienna . In Bad Ischl, in the guest house of the former summer residence of Emperor Franz Joseph I, known as the Kaiservilla , she took an apartment and began to work as a freelance artist there.

Scholly later worked for the publishing house ars sacra (Jos. Müller) in Munich. From 1939 on, she started publishing her first children's books with this publisher. After the Second World War she came back to Bad Ischl. In 1948 she opened her book and art shop on Kreuzplatz. Subsequently, she founded the Scholly publishing house. In 1955 the company moved to Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Strasse, and the business premises were next to the parish church of Bad Ischl . She died of a stroke on October 21, 1965 on her way to work.

Author and painter

Nora Scholly wrote a total of 16 children's books from the late 1930s to the 1960s. Due to her training as an academic painter, the books were also illustrated by herself. In her books she often gave animals, trees and flowers a human face. In this way Scholly tried to bring the unity of man and nature closer to the children.

Her greatest literary success was the book Heartbeat Small Things , published in 1954, with 30,000 copies sold . She donated the net proceeds for the construction of the Pfandl parish church , also known as Maria an der Straße parish church . The church was built from 1958 in the Bad Ischl district of Pfandl . Thanks to the donation of their sales proceeds to the parish, all bricks for the church could be purchased.

During her lifetime, her books were mainly published by Scholly-Verlag Bad Ischl and by ars sacra (Jos. Müller) in Munich. Between 1965 and 2000, some works were posthumously reissued by ars Edition in Munich.

Another focus of her work was sacred art. In 1948, for example, Scholly designed the altarpiece of the newly built Josefi Chapel in the parish church of St. Thomas near Waizenkirchen . She created other altarpieces in the Marienkirche Untergeng and in the parish church Losenstein . The flag of the parish church Bad Ischl, as a motif the protective coat Madonna, is also from her. Her other frescoes and paintings were also predominantly related to the mother of Jesus. Nora Scholly created a painting for the house chapel of the Linz bishop's court (official seat of the bishop).

The world shop is now located at the address where Scholly ran her bookshop in Bad Ischl. In October 2005, an exhibition about Nora Scholly was held on the occasion of her 100th birthday. In November 2019, the regional newspaper Ischler Woche published a brief review of her life's work.

Artistic works

  • Frescoes for the school in the SOS Children's Village St. Anton on Glocknerstrasse
  • Frescoes for the secondary school in Bramberg
  • Large angel as a wall decoration in the former “Stephaneum” building of the brothers of the Christian schools in Bad Goisern on Lake Hallstatt
  • Altarpieces in the churches of St. Thomas near Waizenkirchen, Untergeng in the Mühlviertel (municipality of Eidenberg), Losenstein in the Ennstal
  • Painting in the so-called "Pfarrscheider Chapel" in the village of Rußbach (municipality of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut)
  • Image of Mary in the house chapel of the "Bischofshof" in Linz (official and residence of the Upper Austrian bishop)
  • Painting in a chapel in Traxlegg.

Books

  • Wolkenkinder (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1939, new edition 1955)
  • Fir trees (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1939, new edition 1954)
  • Water droplets (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1939, Scholly Verlag 1952)
  • Sun rays (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1940, new edition 1955, further edition 1960)
  • Snow and Ice (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1941, new edition 1956, ars edition 2000)
  • Kasperl in the forest (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1941)
  • Flunki Knisterlein (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1942)
  • Colorful summer meadow (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1942)
  • Road to Heaven (Catholic Scripture Mission 1947)
  • Sternlein (Scholly Verlag 1949)
  • Das Herrgotts ABC (Steyler Verlagbuchhandlung 1953, Scholly Verlag 1953)
  • Heartbeat of small things (Scholly Verlag 1954). Sales circulation of 30,000 copies
  • The seven little lights (ars sacra / Jos.Müller 1956)
  • Forest stories (Scholly Verlag 1958)
  • ... that's the wind (Scholly Verlag 1958, ars sacra / Jos Müller 1960)
  • Winter is here (ars sacra / Jos. Müller 1970, ars Edition 1983)

The grave at the Bad Ischl cemetery

The family grave has a wayside shrine with a very short shaft and a high tabernacle. A painting by Nora Scholly has been incorporated into the niche at the front. The painting shows Mary as queen with the baby Jesus on her arm. Maria hovers over the roofs of Bad Ischl. This work is subtitled by the last verse from the 1st stanza of the song "Maria, spread your coat ...", which reads: "Mary full of goodness, guard us at all times". The roof is designed as a half-hip roof, the end is formed by a sphere on the gable with a palmette on the front.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nora Scholly in Bad Ischl. Ischler Heimatverein, September 24, 2018, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f F.X. Mannert: A heart for children - the Ischl painter Nora Scholly . In: Ischler Woche - weekly newspaper for the Inner Salzkammergut . Episode 872, November 27, 2019. Pages 40–42.
  3. ^ History of the parish church of St. Thomas. Parish of St. Thomas near Waizenkirchen and the Diocese of Linz, September 24, 2018, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ischler Heimatverein (ed.): Bad Ischl Heimatbuch 2004 . Rudolf Wimmer, Bad Ischl 2004, ISBN 3-900998-70-1 , p. 375 .
  5. ^ Ischler Heimatverein (Ed.): Bad Ischler Friedhofsführer . Posted by Kurt Eckel. Wigo Druck, Bad Ischl 2016, ISBN 978-3-9502460-8-7 , p. 45 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholly, Nora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian academic painter, children's book author and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg (also Pressburg, today: Bratislava )
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1965
Place of death Bad Ischl