Olga Perl

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Olga Ida Maria Perl (born June 3, 1891 in Vienna ; † December 13, 1948 there ) was an Austrian landscape painter of Jewish descent.

Life

The artist was the third of six daughters of Mendel Emanuel Jellinek, descendant of a Moravian rabbi family, and Theresia Unger. Olga grew up in Vienna- Währing , where her talent for drawing was discovered by chance . She was allowed to attend David Kohn's private painting school free of charge, where she received her training.

Through Kohn's mediation, she got a job as a copyist at the Welz Art Gallery, where she was in great demand, especially during the First World War . She was able to find a studio apartment at Zenogasse 5 in Vienna- Meidling , where she lived all of her life.

After the war she met the sculptor Karl Perl . She was baptized on April 24, 1922 and married Perl on May 7, 1922 in the Währing parish church according to the Roman Catholic rite; their daughter was born in 1924.

Olga Perl now devoted herself to the landscape painting, which she preferred, and lived on occasional random assignments. Since she often went to church, nobody knew about her Jewish origins, so that she could continue to live in Vienna after 1938 without being disturbed.

She died in 1948 at the age of 57 in the Vienna General Hospital of thyroid hypertrophy and was buried in the Südwest-Friedhof (group 58, row 6, number 7). On her grave is the plastic mourning muse of her husband Karl Perl. In 2007 the Olga-Perl-Weg in Vienna-Meidling was named after her.

literature

  • Ilse Porter: Karl Perl and Olga Jellinek. In: Meidling. Leaves of the Bezirksmuseum , Vienna, No. 31, 1992, pp. 51–72.
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2502 ( online [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Porter: Autobiography of Ilse Maria Olga Perl Porter . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  2. ^ Peter Autengruber : Lexicon of Viennese street names. Meaning, origin, earlier names. Pichler, Vienna 2014, 9th edition, p. 221.
personal data
SURNAME Perl, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jellinek, Olga; Perl, Olga Ida Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1948
Place of death Vienna