Bertha von Tarnóczy

Bertha von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg (1 April 1846, Innsbruck - 6 March 1936, Pörtschach am Wörthersee) was an Austrian art teacher and painter, specializing in landscapes and still lifes.

Biography

Her father was the court Financial Director, Karl Ludwig von Tarnóczy-Sprinzenberg and her uncle was the Archbishop (later Cardinal), Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy.^[1][2] She attended school in the convent of Sacré Coeur, Riedenburg, where she first displayed her talent for drawing. She accompanied her father on his numerous travels until 1875/76, when she took her first art lessons in Salzburg with Anton Hansch.^{[citation needed]}

In 1877, she went to Munich, where she studied in the Women's Department at the Academy of Fine Arts with Theodor Her [de] and took private lessons from Jeanna Bauck. In 1882, she became one of the founding members of the Munich Women Artists' Association.^[1][2]

For personal reasons, she moved to Vienna in 1886, studied with Emil Jakob Schindler and became friends with Olga Wisinger-Florian. Later, she took several study trips to Italy and Holland and began exhibiting; notably in Salzburg and Budapest. In 1891, she received an Honorary Diploma at an exhibition in Agram (now Zagreb).^[1][2] She also began giving lessons to children of the nobility and, following the death of Michaela Pfaffinger [de], took over her art school in Linz, which she operated until 1919.^[1]

In 1901, together with Wisinger-Florian, Eugenie Breithut-Munk, Marianne von Eschenburg, Marie Egner, Susanne Granitsch [de], Marie Müller and Teresa Feoderovna Ries, she founded the group "Acht Künstlerinnen [de]" (Eight Women Painters) in Vienna.^[3] Later, she became one of the first members of the Austrian Association of Women Artists.^{[citation needed]}

References

Further reading

• Julie M. Johnson, The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900, Purdue University Press, 2012 ISBN 1-55753-613-9

External links

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