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Portrait of Anna Mahler

Seated Nude

Koller-Pinell Broncia (born February 25, 1863 in Sanok, Galicia; † 26 April 1934 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
 

Life

The artist was born in the then Austrian Galicia Bronizlawa Pineles. She was born into a Jewish family. Her parents were the ceiling and woolen goods factory owner Saul Pineles (1834-1903 [1] [2]), and Clara, nee Herzig (1835-1910). 1870 she came with her parents to Vienna, where she received private lessons in painting from Robert Raab and Alois Delug. In 1885 she was the first time publicly exhibit a painting. 1885-87 she studied at the Munich Academy of Women Artists Association under Ludwig von Herterich. This was followed by exhibitions at Künstlerhaus, Munich and Leipzig. They also had good contacts with musicians and composers such as Hugo Wolf.

In 1896 she married a Catholic doctor Hugo Koller, with whom she had two children, Sylvia Koller (1889-1963) and the conductor Rupert Koller. The couple first lived in Nuremberg, but returned to Vienna in 1902. Here she was admitted to the group around Gustav Klimt and the Secessionists. In 1904 she moved to Oberwaltersdorf, where she had inherited a house that was set up by Josef Hoffmann and Kolo Moser. In this topsy-turvy house many important artists and scientists, such as Egon Schiele. After the First World War it had contact with Anton Faistauer, Albert Paris Gütersloh and Franz von Zülow.

Koller-Pinell Broncia was buried at the cemetery Döblinger.
Significance
Seated, 1907

Koller-Pinell Broncia is one of the most important artists of Austria at the turn of the century next to Olga Wisinger-Florian, Tina Marie Egner and blue. They went through many modern art movements, Impressionism, Art Nouveau to Expressionism and New Objectivity. Subjects of their paintings were mostly portraits, genre and still life. Her work was often controversial and subject to harsh criticism.
Works
Portrait of Anna Mahler, daughter-in short-term (1921)

    Orange grove on the French Riviera (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1903, oil on canvas
    The mother of the artist (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. Lg No. 748), 1907, oil on canvas, 91 x 77.5 cm
    Seated - Marietta (Eisenberger Collection), 1907, oil on canvas, 107.5 x 148.5 cm
    The harvest (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Inv. No. 5458), 1908, oil on canvas, 110 x 130 cm
    Still Life with Fruits and Parrot (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, inv. No. KS-7244), 1910, oil on canvas, 82.2 x 107.2 cm
    Potters Market (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, inv. No. KS-6861), 1910, oil on canvas, 141.3 x 141 cm
    Portrait of Anna Mahler (Eisenberger collection), around 1921, oil on canvas, 95 x 80 cm
    Trees in the snow (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 4046), oil on cardboard

Literature

    The painter Broncia Koller 1863-1934. Exhibition catalog. State Museum of Lower Austria, Vienna 1980
    Sieglinde Baumgartner Koller-Pinell Broncia 1863-1934. An Austrian painter between amateurism and profession. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Dissertation Salzburg 1989
    Tobias G. Natter: Broncia Koller Pinell. A painter in the splendor of the Viennese turn of the century. Exhibition catalog. Jewish Museum, Vienna 1993
    Boris Manner: Koller-Pinell Broncia 1863-1934. Brandstätter, Vienna 2006
    Wacha: Koller Bronislava (Bronia). In: Austrian Biographical Dictionary 1815-1950 (ABL). Volume 4, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, pp. 87 f (Direct Links on page 87, page 88).

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