BELVEDERE: Broncia Koller-Pinell. An artist and her network

First major exhibition by a major representative of Viennese modernism in the Orangery of the Lower Belvedere from March 15th to September 8th

Vienna (OTS) – Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863–1934) was present in international exhibitions like no other Viennese modernist artist. Between 1890 and 1930 she was represented in almost 50 exhibitions, including in Vienna, Munich, Warsaw and Chicago. She celebrated her greatest successes in Gustav Klimt’s art show group.

Director General Stella Rollig: The anti-Semitic mood of the 1930s, the National Socialist turning point and the hesitant rediscovery of Koller-Pinell’s work meant that it was only represented in museums late. With this personal work we show the quality of her painting and remember her significant contribution to the art scene in Vienna around 1900.

The show not only shows Broncia Koller-Pinell’s major works, but also specifically addresses the painter’s networks and her activities in promoting art.

Broncia Koller-Pinell’s life was permeated by art, in the spirit of the Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte, in whose development she took an active part. Her connection to artists such as Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann is reflected in her commissions to them, and conversely her painterly work represents the openness to international developments and the characteristic formal language of the Secession and Wiener Werkstättesaid curator Alexander Klee.

The Belvedere is dedicating a show with more than 80 works to the painter, which also sheds light on her cultural network for the first time. For example, the role of patron that the artist took on together with her husband Hugo Koller is discussed.

Her daughter Silvia Koller described her participation in the exhibitions of the so-called art show group as the greatest success in the life of the painter Broncia Koller-Pinell. From this, further networks and artistic groups were formed that shaped the art scene of Viennese modernismadds curator Katharina Lovecky.

By including Broncia Koller-Pinell’s artistic environment, her stylistic development from the Munich School of the late 19th century through Impressionism to the New Objectivity tendencies of the 1920s can be traced. Interactions and influences between the painter and other artists are also highlighted through works by Heinrich Schröder, Anton Faistauer, Egon Schiele, Karl Hofer and her daughter Silvia Koller.

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