{"id":67748,"date":"2024-02-08T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=67748"},"modified":"2024-09-08T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T16:19:22","slug":"broncia-koller-pinell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/broncia-koller-pinell\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncia Koller-Pinell exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bronciasmall.jpg\" alt=\"Sign for Schloss Belvedere\" class=\"wp-image-67735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bronciasmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bronciasmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Broncia Koller-Pinell can claim the rare achievement of being an accomplished and influential artist but also a sponsor and supporter of the arts. An exhibition at Lower Belvedere does justice to both roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Features works from across her career<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2026also alongside related art by contemporaries\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>e.g. Egon Schiele &amp; Koloman Moser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Mar 15 &#8211; Sept 8, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lower-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3384\">Lower Belvedere overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-moderne\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28303\">What was the Wiener Moderne?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An artist and her network<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia1.jpg\" alt=\"Self-portrait of Broncia Koller-Pinell\" class=\"wp-image-67733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia1.jpg 317w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Broncia Koller-Pinell, self-portrait from around 1905; press photo \u00a9 Landessammlungen N\u00d6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turn of the century Vienna might be held up as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-moderne\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28303\">era of creativity and intellectual progress<\/a>, but women had yet to gain full voting rights. Nor could they even pursue academic art studies at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now add in the kind of anti-semitism that would later explode into tyranny, and you can imagine the chances for a Jewish woman to become an artist of some repute were, well, low to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of which makes the achievements of Broncia Koller-Pinell (1863-1934) even more impressive: an accomplished, recognised and influential painter, but also a lynchpin of the artist community and supporter of new talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The political era that accompanied and followed Koller-Pinell&#8217;s final years meant those achievements were often neglected. An exhibition at Belvedere helps restore her to a position that more accurately reflects her ability and status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Sanok, Galicia (now modern-day Poland, but then part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/austria-hungary\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12858\">Austria-Hungary<\/a>), Koller-Pinell moved to Vienna as a young child where she spent much of the rest of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/broncia3.jpg\" alt=\"View of the Koller-Pinell exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-69526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/broncia3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/broncia3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the exhibition; press photo \u00a9 Johannes Stoll \/ Belvedere, Wien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although already exhibiting works in her late twenties, Koller-Pinell&#8217;s artistic star reached its zenith with her involvement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-moderne\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28303\">Wiener Moderne<\/a>. She participated, for example, in the legendary <em>Kunstschau<\/em> exhibition of 1908, where her art shared a venue with a certain golden painting we know as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/kiss\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1119\">The Kiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(We see, for example, Koller-Pinell&#8217;s 1905 <em>Girl with Red Hair<\/em> woodcut from that same show.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This association with pioneering art movements came about both through Koller-Pinell&#8217;s own artistic contributions, but also socially. Together with husband Hugo Koller, she served as enabler and catalyst for others, sitting at the centre of a network of talented individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koller-Pinell moved in a circle that featured such personalities as Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele and Josef Hoffmann, thereby nurturing mutual influence and exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple&#8217;s residence(s), for example, became a regular meeting place for artists and other creatives, including Gustav and Alma Mahler (whose daughter, Silvia, was briefly married to Koller-Pinell&#8217;s son).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia2.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of an orange grove by Broncia Koller-Pinell\" class=\"wp-image-67734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/broncia2-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Might be just me, but is there a hint of Klimt in this landscape? Broncia Koller-Pinell, Orange grove on the French Riviera, 1903; press photo \u00a9 Belvedere, Wien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The connections and closeness of those relationships comes through in the art displayed in the exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see, for example, a portrait of Hugo Koller by Schiele. A drawing of Schiele&#8217;s wife by Silvia Koller, who became an accomplished artist in her own right. One of Silvia Koller herself by Koloman Moser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The respect at that time for Koller-Pinell&#8217;s art shines through in portraits of her by contemporaries, who position her as an artist of repute, rather than a wealthy socialite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This regard also appears in paintings clearly influenced by Koller-Pinell, such as Heinrich Schr\u00f6der&#8217;s post-1906 <em>The Roof of the Theater an der Wien<\/em>, which owes much of its composition to Koller-Pinell&#8217;s earlier c.1903 <em>The Large Roof<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highlights from the artist&#8217;s own oeuvre illustrate her skill and follow her stylistic evolution from the very first oil painting (a medium where she was self-taught!) and the Munich School through Impressionism and beyond into New Objectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy exploring Koller-Pinell&#8217;s work and influence from March 15th to September 8th, 2024. A ticket for or from Lower Belvedere includes access to the special exhibitions within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a bonus Broncia or two, so to speak, visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/who-cares\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"67740\">Who Cares? exhibition<\/a> in the Jewish Museum, which has her unfinished work <em>Mother with Child<\/em> from c. 1900 on display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The permanent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/schiele-leopold\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4068\">Vienna 1900 exhibition<\/a> at the Leopold Museum, which has at least one Koller-Pinell if I recall right and is a top address for the wider Wiener Moderne anyway<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Needless to say, dipping deeper into the artistic side of that particular era is relatively easy in Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Belvedere has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gustav-klimt-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3544\">Vienna 1900 section<\/a> of its permanent art exhibition, for example, with its world-leading Klimt collection. As mentioned, the Leopold Museum has a focus on that time period, as does the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mak\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7100\">MAK museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schiele&#8217;s presence in Vienna&#8217;s art museums seems to grow each year. The Leopold Museum is your top alternative, but last time I visited the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina-art\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2999\">Albertina permanent exhibition<\/a>, Egon had a whole room to himself (and a special exhibition expected in late 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more tips, check the overview articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/egon-schiele\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3550\">Schiele<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/footsteps\/gustav-klimt\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2264\">Klimt<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/wiener-moderne\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28303\">Wiener Moderne<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Just follow the travel advice at the end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3402\">Belvedere directions page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The works and influence (as both painter and patron) of perhaps the most prominent female artist of the Wiener Moderne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belvedere-sites","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67748"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75359,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67748\/revisions\/75359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}