Rosa Neuwirth

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Rosa Neuwirth (born October 25, 1883 in Vinohrady near Prague , † October 24, 1929 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ceramist and sculptor . She worked for the Wiener Werkstätte and was a co-founder of the Ceramic Works Cooperative .

life and work

Rosa Neuwirth was born on October 25, 1883 as the eldest daughter of the art historian Josef Neuwirth and his wife Adelheid, (née von Stein ) in Prague. After finishing school, Rosa Neuwirth began studying at the Prague School of Applied Arts in 1898 . When the father received a call to the Vienna University of Technology , the family moved to Vienna in 1899 ( Favoritenstrasse 68). In the same year she began her studies at the Vienna School of Applied Arts . Her teachers here included Friedrich Linke, Josef Breitner , Michael Powolny and Franz Metzner . In 1903/04 she attended courses with Koloman Moser . In 1903 she received the Rothschild Prize, endowed with 1000 crowns , which enabled her to study in Munich, Zurich, Paris, London, Belgium and the Netherlands.

While she was still a student, her ceramic designs and embroidery were shown in exhibitions at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, in St. Petersburg in 1903/04, at the World Exhibition in St. Louis in 1904 and at the Vienna Art Show in 1908 and 1909. She also marketed her designs in the Wiener Werkstätte. From 1904 to 1908 and in the 1920s she also worked as a drawing teacher in the Vienna Women's Employment Association.

In 1910 she studied for six months in Paris with the sculptor and painter Aristide Maillol . On September 25, 1911 Rosa Neuwirth founded the Ceramic Works Cooperative with Ida Schwetz-Lehmann and Helena Johnová in Mollardgasse 85a, Vienna, with financial support from the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry and the Institute for Economic Development . While Helena Johnová devoted herself to popular ceramics, the ceramics by Ida Schwetz-Lehmann and Rosa Neuwirth were influenced by the Wiener Werkstätte and the porcelain manufacturer Royal Copenhagen . Rosa Neuwirth took over the artistic and entrepreneurial management of the cooperative.

She continued to work successfully during the First World War . Your ceramics were u. a. sold in the UK and United States. Their last exhibition took place in the winter of 1928 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus . In September 1929 Rosa Neuwirth was diagnosed with a tumor disease, of the consequences of which she died on October 24, 1929, one day before she was 46 years old.

Works (selection)

"Parrot"

Rosa Neuwirth's work is primarily characterized by extremely naturalistic ceramic animal sculptures. In addition, some busts and sculptures, wood carvings, landscape paintings in oil, watercolors and colored pen drawings have survived. Her works are shown today in the applied arts museums in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart.

Ceramics

  • Grasshopper, snail, turtle, seahorse (1903/4)
  • Vulture (1910)
  • Flower Seller (1911)
  • Frog Princess (1911)
  • Pheasant (1911)
  • Monkey with shell (1911)
  • Parrot group (1911)
  • Cat Group (1912)
  • Pigeon jay (1912)
  • Lying Cat (1912)
  • Pigeon group (1912)
  • Bernese Mountain Dog (1913)
  • Child with ball (1913)
  • Little Rabbit (1914)
  • Lady with Roses (1914)

Sculptures

  • Emperor Franz Joseph with his successor Otto v. Habsburg
  • Bust of Josef Neuwirth
  • Striding woman
  • Frog prince

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elke Krasny: City and women another topography of Vienna . Metroverlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-902517-78-4 , p. 37 .
  2. ↑ Registration form of the Neuwirth family. Vienna Archive Information System, accessed on February 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Neuwirth Monthly Object 2015-01 Rosa Neuwirth. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Exhibition report . In: Announcements from the North Bohemian Excursion Club . tape 28 . Bohemian Leipa 1905, p. 35 .
  5. ^ Julie M. Johnson: The memory factory: the forgotten women artists of Vienna 1900 . Purdue University Press, West Lafayette 2012, ISBN 978-1-61249-224-7 , pp. 398 .
  6. ^ Lydia Thienen-Adlerflycht: Helena Johnová. A (patriotic) craftswoman . Ed .: University of Vienna. Vienna 2008, p. 23 .
  7. ↑ Ilse Erika Korotin: BiographiA: Lexicon of Austrian women . Vienna, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2381 .

literature

  • Waltraud Neuwirth: Viennese ceramics, historicism, art nouveau, art deco . Vienna 1974, p. 232ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Neuwirth, Rosa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ceramicist and Sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinohrady near Prague
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1929
Place of death Vienna