Norbertine Bresslern-Roth

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Ducks in the reeds, linocut, ca.1920

Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (born November 13, 1891 in Graz , † November 30, 1978 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Norbertine Roth grew up in Graz, on Klosterwiesgasse. Her mother Aloisia Roth was the daughter of a riding school owner from Vienna- Leopoldstadt . Norbertine's artistic talent was already recognized in elementary school by her teacher, who campaigned for her to be allowed to participate free of charge in drawing and painting lessons at the Styrian State Art School under its director Alfred Schrötter from 1907 onwards . During the summer months of 1909 and 1910 she attended the animal painting school in Dachau near Munich under Hans von Hayek . In 1911 Norbertine Roth left Graz to study with Professor Ferdinand Schmutzer at the Vienna Art Academy . Schmutzer was so impressed by the talent of the young artist that he accepted her into his studio at the academy after only a year, although women were officially allowed to study at the Vienna Art Academy for the first time in 1921. As early as 1912 she received the silver medal of the city of Graz as the first honor from her home town. After a successful exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1916, she returned to Graz to set up as a freelance artist. With the first “Norbertine Roth special exhibition” (1918), coinciding with the end of the First World War , she was able to enjoy great success in Graz, her home town. As early as the 1920s, she was one of the first women to work intensively with the new printing technique of linocut . From 1921 to 1952 she created numerous animal representations using this technique. In 1928 Bresslern-Roth undertook a trip to North Africa , which prompted her to make numerous depictions of animals , some of which had the character of studies. Later she got further ideas from European zoos . She also illustrated children's books and created tapestries and ivory miniatures . In 1932, Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth was awarded the title of “professor”. In 1951 she became honorary president of the Styrian Art Association, which was re-approved in 1946.

During the Nazi era , she created some pictures that are now classified as critical of the regime. Because of this, and because she did not part with her husband Georg Ritter von Bresslern († 1952), whom she married in 1918 and who was classified as a “half-Jew” under Nazi legislation , she is now classified as “cultural resistance”.

Act

Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth is considered the most important contemporary animal painter worldwide. In particular the later works, which are less of a study than an artistic character, are considered unequaled. With her linocuts she created outstanding and progressive graphic works with which she was able to position herself in the international art scene during her lifetime. With her representations she also achieved a wide impact. In 1952 an exhibition of her works in Graz was visited by the then unimaginable number of 10,000 people.

Works by Bresslern-Roth are owned by the Neue Galerie Graz and the collection of the state capital Graz.

Works (selection)

  • Painting:
    • Dying Lion Pierced by Arrows (ca.1928)
    • Snow leopard (1939)
    • Persecution (1941)
Siamese cat (color linocut 1946)
  • Graphics:
    • Greyhounds (1925)
    • Bluethroat (1922)
    • Leopard Hunt (1927)
  • Children's books:
    • At the zoo (1944)
    • ABC (Graz, Kienreich, 1946)
    • The Meadow (1948)
    • Professor Wüsstegern (children's book series)

Awards (selection)

  • 1912: Silver medal from the city of Graz
  • 1921: Austrian State Prize
  • 1922: Gold medal from the city of Graz
  • 1934: Honorary Prize from the City of Vienna
  • 1936: Austrian State Prize
  • 1971: Appreciation award of the state of Styria for fine arts
  • 1972: Ring of Honor of the City of Graz

Exhibitions

From October 26, 2016 to April 17, 2017, a comprehensive retrospective on the artist's work was shown in the Neue Galerie Graz of the Universalmuseum Joanneum.

literature

  • Michael Stoff (Ed.): Bresslern-Roth. A homage in the St. Veiter Schlössl in Graz , Graz 2003, self-published, ISBN 3-9501787-0-8 .
  • Kovacek & Zetter: Autumn exhibition, Austrian art of the 20th century (Vienna 2003), sales catalog, special exhibition Bresslern-Roth Norbertine, pp. 53–83.
  • Christa Steinle (Ed.): Norbertine Bresslern-Roth - animal painter , Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, exhibition catalog, Graz: Leykam Buchverlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7011-8015-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] ; accessed on February 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bresslern-Roth, Norbertine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roth, Norbertine von; Bresslern-Roth, Norbertine von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1978
Place of death Graz