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Archive work

Index of students at the Wiener Frauenakademie / Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen

2019

Compilation of the list of female students at the Vienna Women's Academy from 1897 to 1939 

 

 


The first private, later state-funded Wiener Frauenakademie (Vienna Women's Academy), originally called Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls), was an artistic educational institution for women in Vienna founded in 1897. The school was opened at a time when women who wanted to be educated in painting, graphic arts or sculpture were still obliged to take private lessons.


In five months, the list of female students at the Vienna Women's Academy has been compiled, copied and digitized with the help of archives, libraries and associations of Vienna in order to contribute to the reappraisal of the history of Austrian female artists of the past century and to facilitate future research. The student index is incomplete from the year 1916. Every person is given the opportunity to participate in this project by contributing to complete the list.

 
 
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Exhibition view of the index during “WILD SPOERRI ROSENSTEIN

 

During the exhibition “WILD SPOERRI ROSENSTEIN”, the index hung opposite the assemblage "From the very Bottom of Silence" by Holocaust survivor Erna Rosenstein. She is the only recorded student of these years.

 

References:

Sabine Forsthuber: Vom Ende der Wiener Frauenakademie in der NS-Zeit, in: Hans Seiger, Michael Lunardi (Hrsg.): Im Reich der Kunst: die Wiener Akademie der Bildenden Künste und die faschistische Kunstpolitik. Wien: Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, 1990, S. 217–246

Hundert Jahre Hochschulstatut, 280 Jahre Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien - Wien: Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, 1972

Ein Bilderbuch [von den Schülerinnen der "Kunstschule für Mädchen und Frauen" herausgegeben] - In: Dokumente der Frauen / hrsg. von Auguste Fickert, Marie Lang, Rosa Mayreder; ab 2.1900,20: Marie Lang , Nr. 18 , 1901, 523 ÖNB 402681-B.Neu

Brandow-Faller, Megan Marie : An art of their own : reinventing Frauenkunst in the female academies and artist leagues of late-imperial and First Republic Austria, 1900-1930 - Washington, D.C., Georgetown Univ., Diss., 2010, ÖNB 1943459-C.Neu

Frank, Ina : Ausstellung der Wiener Frauenakademie - In: Die Österreicherin / hrsg. vom Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine. Für die Schriftleitung verantw.: Eugenie Palitschek; ab 1932,8: Marianne Hönig; ab 1932,9: Ernestine Fürth , Nr. 5 , 1928 , 6-7, ÖNB 609120-C.Neu-Per

Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen - In: Der Bund / hrsg. vom Bund österr. Frauenvereine. Für die Schriftleitung verantwortlich: Henriette Herzfelder; später: Daisy Minor, Maria L. Klausberger , Nr. 3 , 1907 , 12, ÖNB 442258-B.Neu-Per

 
 

I would like to say thank you to Prof. Marina Gržinić, the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), Adam Szymczyk, Prof. Friedrich C. Heller, Wienbibliothek, Library of the Akademie of Fine Arts Vienna, Austrian National Library Vienna, University of Applied Arts Vienna Library and Zacharias Lojenburg