Broncia Koller-Pinell
Austrian painter (1863–1934)
Hugo Koller
(m. 1896)Broncia Koller-Pinell (25 February 1863 – 26 April 1934) was an Austrian Expressionist painter who specialized in portraits and still-lifes.
Life
She was born as Bronisława Pineles to a Jewish family in Sanok in what is now Poland. Her father, Saul Pineles [pl], was a designer of military fortifications.[1] In 1870, they moved to Vienna to start a manufacturing business (where they changed the family name to "Pinell") and she took private art lessons with Alois Delug.[2] In 1885, she had her first public exhibition. For the next five years, she studied in Munich at the "Damenakademie" of the Munich Artists' Association in the studios of Ludwig von Herterich.[1] This was followed by exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, in Munich and in Leipzig.[2] Koller-Pinell exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]
In 1896, against her family's wishes, she married the physicist and industrialist, Dr. Hugo Koller [de], who was a Catholic. Their children were raised as Christians, but she never converted.[1] At first, they lived in Salzburg and Nuremberg, but returned to Vienna in 1902. Shortly after, she was accepted as a member of the Vienna Secession.[2] In 1904, she inherited a house in Oberwaltersdorf. The family soon moved there, and she had it decorated by Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, associates from the Secession. Shortly after, she set up a salon[4] that was frequented by Egon Schiele, Anton Faistauer and Albert Paris Gütersloh, among others.
Her son, Rupert (1896–1976), became a conductor and was briefly married to Anna Mahler. Her daughter Silvia (1898–1963) was also a painter.
Koller-Pinell died in Oberwaltersdorf on 26 April 1934.
Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.[5]
Selected paintings
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"Blick über das Wiental", vor 1902 -
Woman with Blue Headscarf
(date unknown) -
Silvia Koller with Bird Cage (c.1905) -
Sitting (1907) -
Still-life with Red Elephant (c.1920) -
Portrait of Friedrich Eckstein (1920s)
References
- ^ a b c Jewish Women's Archive: Biography by Birgit Ben Eli
- ^ a b c Wacha: "Koller Bronislawa (Bronia)". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 87 f. (Direct links to "p. 87", "p. 88")
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum: Brief biography
- ^ "City of Women". Belvedere Museum Vienna. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
Further reading
- Die Malerin Broncia Koller 1863–1934. Exhibition catalog, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Vienna (1980)
- Tobias G. Natter: Broncia Koller Pinell. Eine Malerin im Glanz der Wiener Jahrhundertwende. Exhibition catalog. Jüdisches Museum, Vienna (1993)
- Boris Manner: Broncia Koller-Pinell 1863–1934. Brandstätter, Vienna (2006) ISBN 3-902510-88-9
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Broncia Koller-Pinell.
- ArtNet: More work by Koller-Pinell
- Wien-Vienna Website: "On the Career of Broncia Koller", a book review by Susanne Neuberger
- Broncia Koller-Pinell @ The Blue Lantern
- Literature by and about Broncia Koller-Pinell in the German National Library catalogue
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