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Sophie Korner - born Vienna, 1872, died Izbizca (?) 1942.

Painter and graphic artist.

Studied decorative painting at the art school for women and girls and at the Vienna school of applied arts (Kunstgewerbeschule) and with Bernhardt Pankok in Stuttgart. Travelled to supplement her studies, stayed in Paris and the Hungarian artist colony Nagybánya; 1919 - 1921 studied with Johannes Itten at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 1930 joined the Federation of Austrian Women Fine Artists in Vienna. 1942 deported to Ibizca and murdered. Stella Kramrich said of her in "The fine arts" (1920, pages 104 - 107): "an expressionism of animated, delineated surface colour which allows the painting to become a living organism." [ref Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Women Artists in Austria from 1897 - 1932. Painting - Sculpture - Architecture. Vienna - Picus, Wien.]

The arts establishment in Vienna.

According to Birgit Ben-Eli in her article "Austria: Jewish Women Artists", "the history of The School of Arts and Crafts, Vienna (Fachschule für dekorative Malerei und graphische Kunst der Kunstgewerbeschule in Wien) was but one example of a common male consensus. Even worse was the Viennese academy, which opened its doors to women only in 1920, two hundred years after its foundation, and then kept the number of female students low."

Exhibitions and works

The Bauhaus in Calcutta: An Encounter of the Cosmopolitan "Avant-garde, an exhibition held in 2013 in Dessau in Germany, was originally held in Calcutta in December 1922, although few traces of it remain." in the absence of the works, the documents relating to the exhibition were displayed.

According to the article, "(the 1922 exhibition) was a pathbreaking exhibition of the watercolours, gouaches and drawings by artists from both this “School of Building” founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, and modern Indian artists from Rabindranath’s Santiniketan schoo l which opened in the same year. "

According to co-curator Kathrin Rhomberg, "the avant garde has lost its position of being the “other” in the 1990s contemporary art system which allowed everything to be passed off as art. ... One of the positive fallouts of globalisation and the end of Cold War is that Eurocentrism in art history is more and more being questioned, specifically in the last 10 years."

Rabindranath bought one of the only paintings sold at this exhibition, a work by Sophie Körner, but it remains untraced, as do many of her works following her death.

Die bessere Hälfte (The Better Half) female Jewish artists to 1938, Jewish Museum, Vienna, November 2016 - July 2017.

Sources

http://www.jmw.at/de/exhibitions/die-bessere-haelfte-juedische-kuenstlerinnen-bis-1938

Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber: Women Artists in Austria from 1897 - 1932. Painting - Sculpture - Architecture. Vienna - Picus, Wien.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/1130729/jsp/calcutta/story_17164179.jsp

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/austria-jewish-women-artists

http://www.zeller.de/de/kuenstlerindex/char/k/

http://www.frauenkunst.at/de/maler/korner/index.html