Reny Lohner
Regine "Reny" Lohner (born September 24, 1905 in Vienna ; † July 8, 1981 there ) was an Austrian painter and set designer who was close to the surrealism of the Vienna School .
Life
Regine, called Reny, was born as the daughter of the textile industrialist Salomon Singer in Vienna and had two brothers who both emigrated from Austria in 1938, Adolf to London and Wilhelm to Buenos Aires.
She was married to Alfred Lohner , called Bill, partner of the Lohner Works and President of Spinner and Weber Austria, and has a daughter who was born in 1928. Lohner had residences in Vienna and Kitzbühel.
plant
In addition to painting, which she learned from Robert Eigenberger (1890–1979) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , she also works as a costume designer , for example at the Vienna State Opera and at the Wiener Festwochen .
In the 1940s and 1950s she devoted herself to portrait painting , and in the 1960s she turned to the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism . Works can be found in numerous German and Austrian private collections, a portrait from her hand is in the foyer of the Vienna State Opera, one of her main works is in the collection of Constantine of Greece and hangs in his apartment in Manhattan, New York. Reny Lohner did not have any commercial success.
Web links
- Literature by and about Reny Lohner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lohner, Reny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lohner, Regine (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1981 |
| Place of death | Vienna |