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Intro | Austrian painter | ||||
A.K.A. | Bronislawa Koller Broncia Koller Broucia Koller Broncia Koller Pinell | ||||
A.K.A. | Bronislawa Koller Broncia Koller Broucia Koller Broncia Koller Pinell | ||||
Places | Austria | ||||
was | Painter | ||||
Work field | Arts | ||||
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Genres: | Portrait | ||||
Birth | 25 February 1863, Sanok, Poland | ||||
Death | 26 April 1934Oberwaltersdorf, Austria (aged 71 years) | ||||
Star sign | Pisces | ||||
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Biography
Broncia Koller-Pinell (25 February 1863, Sanok - 26 April 1934, Oberwaltersdorf) was an Austrian Expressionist painter who specialized in portraits and still-lifes.
Life
She was born as Bronislawa Pineles to a Jewish family in what is now Poland. Her father Saul Pineles (1834, Tysmenytsia – 1903, Vienna) was a designer of military fortifications. 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. 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. This was followed by exhibitions at the Vienna Künstlerhaus, in Munich and in Leipzig. Koller-Pinell exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1896, against her family's wishes, she married the electro-physicist Dr.Hugo KollerJosef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, associates from the Secession. Shortly after, she set up a salon that was frequented by Egon Schiele, Anton Faistauer and Albert Paris Gütersloh, among others.
(1867-1949), who was a Catholic. Their children were raised as Christians, but she never converted. 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. In 1904, she inherited a house in Oberwaltersdorf. The family soon moved there, and she had it decorated byHer son, Rupert (1896–1976), became a conductor and was briefly married to Anna Mahler. Her daughter Silvia (1898–1963) was also a painter.
Selected paintings
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)