Chapters covering the careers of Tina Blau, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Helene Funke, and Teresa Ries (among others) point to a more integrated and cosmopolitan art world than previously thought one where women became part of the avant-garde, accepted and even highlighted in major exhibitions at the Secession and with the Klimt group. Along with the stories of individual women artists, the author reconstructs the history of separate women artists' associations and their exhibitions. Many had to flee Austria, losing their studios and lifework in the process. However, and especially because so many of the artists were Jewish, their contributions were actively obscured beginning in the late 1930s. Women artists came from the provinces, Russia, and Germany to participate in its vibrant art scene. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite men-only policies in its main art institutions, it offered a myriad of unexpected ways for women artists to forge successful public careers. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. "The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. In “Una Cosa Sola,” Waehner discusses Koller's friend Anton Faistauer (1887-1930) in favorable terms, but Anton Kolig (1886-1950) and Franz Wiegele (1887-1944)- whom Waehner did not know personally-as artists who painted in a “Blu-Bo” . Das Buch bietet den ersten profunden Überblick über die in und um Kärnten entstandene moderne Malerei sowie Abbildungen aller Hauptwerke und Biografien der involvierten Künstler und Förderer. Sie erarbeiteten einen eigenständigen Weg in die moderne Malerei, der zunehmend internationale Beachtung findet. zählen neben Schiele und Kokoschka zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern des Expressionismus. Herbert Boeckl, aber auch die bekannten Künstler des Nötscher Kreises, wie Anton Kolig, Franz Wiegele, Sebastian Isepp, Gerhart Frankl, Anton Mahringer u. Kärnten war neben Wien der wichtigste Schauplatz moderner Malerei in Österreich, der sowohl bedeutende moderne Maler in die europäischen Metropolen "exportierte" als auch viele Künstler wegen der ursprünglichen Lebensbedingungen anzog. 56 22 Hans Tietze " ' Frauenbildnis ' von Franz Wiegele .
21 Faistauer Neue Malerei ( see note 13 ). Nachlass Ankwicz - Kleehoven Anton Kolig. Archiv der Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.