Olga hunter

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Olga Jäger (born June 24, 1880 in Linz , † September 8, 1965 in Pressbaum ) was an Austrian painter and art collector .

Live and act

Jäger attended the nude course at the Matthias May art school in Linz. She lived and worked in Linz. In the interwar period she belonged to the artists' association MAERZ . The artist and her work remained unknown.

In 1951 she gave the drawing pair of Egon Schiele drawing Two Reclining by Gustav Klimt , the watercolor Young Man and the oil painting Dead City by Egon Schiele at the Neue Galerie in Linz, today Lentos Art Museum , for which a handover confirmation from Walter box exists, contains the Neue Galerie and the name of Wolfgang Gurlitt in the letterhead .

Since the pictures can no longer be found since 1951, the heirs have applied for compensation and enforced them in court. Olga Jäger bequeathed her entire estate to her nephew Kurt Jäger, the father of Alfred, Johannes and Klaus Jäger. His heiress was his wife, who died in 2004 and bequeathed her estate to the sons mentioned above.

One of those missing images that the city of Linz has been litigating for years with the heirs of a lender has now emerged. A secretary, who retired in 1977 and died in December 2017, had illegally owned the drawing "Two Reclining" and last willed to return it to the city after her death.

Some of her works were handed over to the Landesgalerie at the Upper Austrian State Museum.

Exhibitions

  • 100 years of March. The beginnings 1913 to 1938. Nordico, Linz, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Jäger (Jaeger) , in: Press release 100 years of Maerz, The beginnings 1913 to 1938. Linz, 2013. On the website of the Museum Nordico Linz, accessed on December 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ Andreas Hutter: Who was Olga Jäger. In: Neues Volksblatt from February 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ City of Linz has to pay 8.24 million euros in the painting affair. in: Salzburger Nachrichten of October 15, 2015, requested on December 2, 2015.
  4. ↑ Disappeared works: heirs want 7 million euros. ORF Upper Austria from June 27, 2014, queried on December 2, 2015.
  5. ↑ Disappeared pictures: The art theft goes into the next round. In: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of March 24, 2012, accessed on December 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Klimt picture "Zwei Liegende" found in Linz - ooe.ORF.at. Retrieved February 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1965
Place of death Press tree