Therese Mirani

Therese Mirani

Therese Mirani (born December 2, 1824 in Prague , † May 24, 1901 in Vienna ) was an Austrian artisan .

biography

She was the daughter of the writer Johann Heinrich Mirani (1802–1873).

Her skills in sewing and processing fabrics for clothes soon made her products very popular. She invented a new type of embroidery , called broderie dentelle , and the points imperial , a new type of lace. She began to supply the Viennese court and in 1865 she was awarded the title of " kk chamber art embroiderer ". The award of the chamber title to a woman by virtue of her own work was extremely rare for the time, an honor she only shared with Maria Benkowits , also a chamber artist embroiderer. In 1867 she was awarded a medal at the Paris World Exhibition and was the first woman on the jury .

She was initially the first teacher at the Imperial and Royal School for Art Embroidery of the Ministry of Commerce in Vienna. After the death of the director Emilie Bach (1840–1890) she became director.

Therese Mirani was also active as a journalist in the field of fashion , female work and housework and was an employee of the " Neue Freie Presse ", " Wiener Mode ", " Illustrierte Frauenzeitung ", " Vom Fels zum Meer " and the like. a.

On the occasion of her retirement in 1899, she was awarded the golden cross of merit with the crown . She died two years later at the age of 77.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Mirani, Therese . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 350 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ludwig Eisenberg : The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Edited by Ludwig Eisenberg and Richard Groner . Vienna, 1889–1893.
• Marianne Nigg: Biographies of Austrian Poets and Writers. A contribution to German literature in Austria. Korneuburg 1893.
• Mirani, Miss Therese . In: Sophie Pataky (Hrsg.): Lexicon of German women of the pen . Volume 2. Verlag Carl Pataky, Berlin 1898, p. 49 ( digitized version ).
• Documents of the Women (Ed. By Auguste Fickert, Marie Lang, Rosa Mayreder; from Vol. 2, No. 20: Ed .: Marie Lang). Obituary from ES, Vol. 5, No. 7, 1901, p. 224.
• H. Meißner:  Mirani, Therese. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 314.

Web links

Commons : Therese Mirani  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Therese Mirani in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library