Adalbert Seligmann
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Adalbert Franz Seligmann (2 April 1862, Vienna – 13 December 1945, Vienna) was an Austrian painter and art critic. He signed his criticism with the name "Plein-Air", in reference to a style of landscape painting known as En plein air.
Biography
His father was the Viennese medical historian,
He worked as a teacher of
One of his most notable achievements was as a co-founder of the "Frauenkunstschule" (women's art school), now known as the Wiener Frauenakademie. Perhaps his best known painting depicts the famous surgeon, Theodor Billroth, giving a lecture in anatomy. He also provided illustrations for the novels of Ludwig Ganghofer.
On an odd note, he possessed a skull fragment from
Despite his Jewish ancestry, as a practicing Catholic he survived the
In 1958, a street in Vienna's Liesing district was named after him. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1962, a major retrospective was held in the reading room at the Wienbibliothek.
Writings
- Kritische Studien von Plein-air., Vienna, 1904
- "Der sterbende Expressionismus", in: Neue Freie Presse, Nr. 20281, 13. February 1921, pg.1–4 (ANNO).
- Leopold Carl Müller. Ein Künstlerleben in Briefen, Bildern und Dokumenten, Vienna, 1922
Sources
- Ch. Gruber/M. Haja, Seligmann Adalbert Franz, in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon, Vol. 12 (Lfg. 56, 2002), pgs. 152f (Online).
- Maximilian Kaiser (Ed.): Adalbert Franz Seligmann. Essays und Kritiken (1918–1933), Vienna 2015 ISBN 978-3-7386-1693-4
- Maximilian Kaiser: Der Wiener Diskurs zur Avantgarde. Rekonstruktion und Analyse des Diskursnetzwerkes, Dissertation, Vienna University, 2017.
External links
- "How Beethoven’s Skull got to San Jose" @ Digital Dying
- More works by Seligmann @ ArtNet
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