Trude Waehner
Trude Waehner (born August 11, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 18, 1979 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
Career
Gertrude Wähner was the daughter of Theodor Wähner, publisher of the "Deutsche Zeitung" and Vienna city councilor. After graduating from high school, she studied for two years at the Academy for Music in Vienna, then at the arts and crafts school . In the 1920s she became a member of the artists' associations Hagenbund and Österreichischer Werkbund . Trude Waehner's pictures have been exhibited in Vienna, Prague, Brno, Belgrade, Zurich, Stockholm and Paris. From 1928 she studied at the Bauhaus Dessau in Paul Klee's master class . In 1932 she went to Berlin, after the seizure of power of Hitler, she had returned to Austria. She had always been critical of fascism and her second husband was of Jewish descent. After the Anschluss she emigrated to the United States via Switzerland, France and England. Her studio in Buchfeldgase 6 ( Josefstadt ) was taken over by Heimito von Doderer in 1938 , who took Albert Paris Gütersloh in as a subtenant until 1948 . Doderer had to give back the studio that the artist had built out of the attic and was given a sublet in the house by the Gold family. In the United States, she worked at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and the Moravian Seminary and College for Women in Pennsylvania. In addition to painting, exhibitions and art classes, she also worked scientifically on the analysis of forms in art. After the war she lived from Vienna in the south of France ( Dieulefit ) and Venice. Landscapes and portraits were created in Dieulefit and the surrounding area. She had many exhibitions in Italy - one of which filled an entire palazzo in Reggio Emilia. The active woodcut activity began with her stay in Venice. In her later years a very courageous contribution to the restoration of democracy in Franco Spain took place for an old woman.
Trude Waehner was buried in the family grave in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (Section 1, Ring 3, Group 2, No. 46), where Anny Felbermayer also found her final resting place.
Awards and honors
On September 8, 2015, a memorial plaque was unveiled for Trude Waehner at Haus Buchfeldgasse 6, where the artist's studio was located in Vienna-Josefstadt .
In 2019 the Trude-Waehner-Platz in Vienna Josefstadt (8th district) was named after her.
Lumbarda place II
Josef Frank 1934
Riverside Drive
Mme. Augier
Poldi short
Haifa from Mount Carmel II
En la noche
Quartetto Italiano in Siena
literature
- Gustav Szekely: reports from the life of the painter Trude Waehner about her son. Published as part of the 300 years Josefstadt project. Löcker, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-854-09340-3
- Una sola cosa (unpublished autobiography), Trude Waehner's literary estate, literary archive of the Austrian National Library, Sign .: ÖLA 244 / W12
- Catalogs and posters from exhibitions in the District Museum Vienna Josefstadt.
- Johann Werfring: Undiscovered Zimelien In: “Wiener Zeitung” of September 3, 2015, supplement “ProgrammPunkte”, p. 7.
Web links
- Trude Waehner
- Trude Waehner in the literature archive of the Austrian National Library
- on the fate of the studio in Buchfeldgasse
- Literature by and about Trude Waehner in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waehner, Trude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wähner, Gertrude; Szekely-Wähner, Gertrude; Schmidl-Wähner Gertrude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1979 |
| Place of death | Vienna |