Susi Singer

Susi Singer , Susanne Singer , also Selma Singer , married name Susi Schinnerl (born October 27, 1895 in Vienna , † 1955 in California , USA) was an Austrian-American ceramicist .

life and work

Susi Singer studied at the art school for women and girls under Tina Blau , Michael Powolny , Adolf Böhm and Otto Friedrich . She then worked for the Wiener Werkstätte (1917–1925). The Kunstschau Wien in 1908 showed its exhibits, then again in 1920. In 1922, the specialist journal German Art and Decoration published sculptures by Singer. In 1925 she received a gold medal at the Paris arts and crafts exhibition ( Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern ) for her one meter high original ceramics. Also in 1925 she exhibited in “Deutsche Frauenkunst” in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . In the same year she founded her own ceramic workshop in Grünbach am Schneeberg . In 1928 she exhibited at the International exhibition of ceramics , organized by the American Federation of Arts , AFA, in various locations in the USA, including the MoMA . She won art prizes in London in 1934 and at the Brussels World's Fair in 1935 .

Singer was a member of the associations "Vereinigung Wiener Frauenkunst" (since 1926) and the Austrian Werkbund ; she exhibited at the "Frauenkunst" from 1927 to 1933, at the Werkbund in 1930. From 1920 to 1925 she was a corresponding member, from 1926 an associated member of the Hagenbund .

In 1938, after the accidental death of her husband Josef Schinnerl, whom she married in 1924, in a mine, she emigrated to Los Angeles in the USA. She received a scholarship from a foundation at Scripps College in 1946 , after which she taught sculpture there for a short time. Since the late 1940s she was dependent on a wheelchair because her skeleton was partially malformed as a result of malnutrition after the First World War. She died in California in 1955.

Photo credits

Scripps Annual, representative catalog of works by the Scripps employees; Susi Singer: born between 1947 and 1952
6000 Years of art in clay , Los Angeles 1952 (collective exhibition)
Women's "work": The Dignity of Craft. American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona 2005, exhibition, together with Marguerite Wildenhain

Archival material

Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) , library, call number 2287
Scripps College, Fine Arts Foundation Collection: Susi Singer, Collection of Ceramic Sculpture 1946 - 1947 , Box 4, Folder 90, 1986
- Gallery at Scripps, 29 illustrations, 5 further descriptions of works
Austrian Gallery Belvedere , Selma Singer-Schinnerl ; after that there was her last exhibition in pre-war Vienna on March 7, 1937
Museenkoeln.de, Art and Museum Library Cologne, shelf marks 1.46,285,353,415,708; 4.57.2 and K850,893

literature

Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Artists in Austria 1897–1938. Painting. Plastic. Architecture. Picus, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452122-7 , p. 275.
Elaine Levin: Vally Wieselthier & Susi Singer. in Zs. American Craft, 46, December 1986 - January 1987.
Mathilde Flögl (ed.): The Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1928. Modern arts and crafts and its way. Krystall, Vienna 1929; Reprint Ketterer, Munich 1994 (works by Hg'in, by Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann , Gustav Klimt , Franz Cizek , Dagobert Peche , Julius Zimpel , Koloman Moser , Franz von Zülow , Carl Otto Czeschka , Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill , Maria Likarz , Susi Singer, Felicia Rix , Max Snischek (1891 Dürnkrut - 1968 Hinterbrühl ), Vally Wieselthier, Erna Kopriva (1894 Vienna - 1984 Vienna), Gudrun Baudisch , Kitty Rix (born 1901))

Web links

Exhibition: The better half. Jewish artists until 1938. 2016/2017, Jewish Museum Vienna , location Dorotheergasse

Individual evidence

↑ dates of birth uncertain, the German National Library mentions 3 possibilities; in the US census of 1940 she gave 1902 as her approximate year of birth and described her son Peter Schinnerl as two years old, his date of birth is September 17, 1937; as residence Pasadena, California ; in an application for naturalization in the USA, she stated "Selma Rosa Schinnerl" and year of birth 1891; "Suzanne Schinnerl" is noted in the later naturalization register (June 22, 1945)
↑ often deviating from 1965 as the year of her death. Perhaps 1955 was the last year she produced, according to the Poteries of California website
↑ Since 1926 this was a spin-off from the Association of Austrian Women Artists
↑ Her assets (as Selma Schinnerl), a piece of land in Grünbach, were "confiscated", ie Aryanized , by the Nazi state after 1938 , cf. Lower Austrian Provincial Archives, p. 15, No. 449 Source
^ Waltraud Neuwirth : Wiener Keramik . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1974, ISBN 3-7814-0163-4 . For uncertainty regarding the year of death, see note above
^ Description of the exhibition , in English
↑ at this foundation further materials, u. a. Letters from / to SS; the foundation occasionally organizes exhibitions and conferences on its (former) employees, on Singer z. B. last on March 19, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Singer, Susi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Singer-Schinnerl, Susi (married name); Singer, Selma; Singer-Schinnerl, Selma (married name); Singer, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-American ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	1955
Place of death	California , USA

[1] tes of birth uncertain, the German National Library mentions 3 possibilities; in the US census of 1940 she gave 1902 as her approximate year of birth and described her son Peter Schinnerl as two years old, his date of birth is September 17, 1937; as residence Pasadena, California ; in an application for naturalization in the USA, she stated "Selma Rosa Schinnerl" and year of birth 1891; "Suzanne Schinnerl" is noted in the later naturalization register (June 22, 1945)

[2] ten deviating from 1965 as the year of her death. Perhaps 1955 was the last year she produced, according to the Poteries of California website

[3] Since 1926 this was a spin-off from the Association of Austrian Women Artists

[4] Her assets (as Selma Schinnerl), a piece of land in Grünbach, were "confiscated", ie Aryanized , by the Nazi state after 1938 , cf. Lower Austrian Provincial Archives, p. 15, No. 449 Source

[5] Waltraud Neuwirth : Wiener Keramik . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig 1974, ISBN 3-7814-0163-4 . For uncertainty regarding the year of death, see note above

[6] Description of the exhibition , in English

[7] t this foundation further materials, u. a. Letters from / to SS; the foundation occasionally organizes exhibitions and conferences on its (former) employees, on Singer z. B. last on March 19, 2010.