Regina Kreidl

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Self-portrait, signed Rega Kreidl 1903 or 1909, photogravure, Adolf Eckstein's Verlag Berlin, 1919, 198 × 300 mm, Austrian National Library

Regina (Rega) Kreidl , b. Winterberg (born April 2, 1874 in Reichenberg , Bohemia, † December 4, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter.

Grave site Döblinger Friedhof Vienna

Life

Regina (Rega) Kreidl came from the Reichenberg line of the Winterberg family. She was the daughter of the respected Reichenberg wool merchant Berthold Winterberg and his wife Sophie, born Austria. Berthold and Sophie Winterberg had four daughters and three sons and Regina was the eldest. On December 6, 1896, she married the Viennese factory owner Leopold Kreidl, who was born on March 15, 1861 in Gratzen / Budweis (Nové Hrady / České Budějovice). The Kreidl couple had no children. Rega Kreidl died suddenly and unexpectedly on December 4, 1927 in the sanatorium, Vienna 8, Schmidgasse 14. “The Viennese artist fell victim to a fateful carelessness. She came too close to the stove with her clothes and died of severe burns. ”Leopold Kreidl died on July 10, 1939 in Vienna, too. Both are buried in the Döblinger Friedhof (I1-G1-78).

Career

In Vienna, Regina Kreidl, who called herself Rega Kreidl as an artist, had the opportunity to train in the studio of the well-known Tyrolean expressionist Albin Egger-Lienz at a time when women were not yet allowed to attend public art schools . She studied u. a. also with Otto Friedrich . She worked as a landscape and portrait painter and draftsman. She mainly painted and drew the interiors of Viennese churches with devoted meticulousness. A collective exhibition of their works took place in 1906 in the Albertina in Vienna. The Albertina in Vienna has a drawing Partie or St. Stephen's Church with Heidenturm , 418 × 355 mm. Much of her work is privately owned and her whereabouts are unknown. The Jewish Museum in Vienna has a very expressive portrait of Meyer-Friedmann, lecturer of the Kultusgemeinde in Vienna, drawn in 1905, as well as three oil paintings on canvas from the Rossau cemetery and four similar ones from the Währinger cemetery. Since these two cemeteries were closed, Dr. Bronner, the curator of the old Jewish Museum, the artist with these works, which her husband Leopold Kreidl donated to the Jewish Museum after her sudden death. A number of her pictures and drawings are in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna . In 1927 she was the first woman to be awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna .

plant

In addition to various portraits and a .:

  • From Dachau , oil, 1908
  • Old house in Grinzing , oil, 1911
  • An old ghetto house
  • The Polish temple in Leopoldstadt
  • The Stephanskirche
  • Hofburg Vienna , 1925
  • Gothic buildings , 1926

source

literature

selection

  • The Austrian. 2nd year, No. 1 (1929)
  • New Free Press of December 6, 1927
  • New Wiener Tagblatt dated December 5, 1927
  • Wiener Zeitung of May 14, 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Freie Presse Wien, December 5, 1927, p. 4
  2. ↑ WHO ONCE WAS A – K The Jewish upper middle class Vienna 1800–1938, Georg Gaugusch, Amalthea Signum Verlag Vienna
  3. ↑ Neues Wiener Journal, December 6, 1927, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Kreidl, Regina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreidl, Rega (nickname); Winterberg, Regina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1927
Place of death Vienna