EMILIE MEDIZ-PELIKAN (Vöcklabruck 1861 - 1908 Dresden), Pine Grove

EMILIE MEDIZ-PELIKAN
(Vöcklabruck 1861 - 1908 Dresden)
Pine Grove
lithography/paper, 53,4 x 65,3 cm
signed E. Pelikan
Provenance: estate of the artist, Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz Zurich (daughter of the artist), Republic of Austria - financial procuration, Gallery Kurt Kalb Vienna, Fine Arts Dr. Margarete Widder Linz, private property Austria

ESTIMATE °€ 300 - 600
START € 300

Austrian landscape painter. Stayed in the artists colony Dachau and the artists colony Knokke, exhibited in the Vienna Secession and the Hagenbund. Was married to Karl Mediz. Classified stylistically between Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Mood Impressionism and Impressionism. Created drawings and pastels with landscapes such as the birches by Gustav Klimt. Among important female Austrian artists such as Tina Blau, Olga Wisinger-Florian and Marie Egner.

Landscapes occupy a central position in the oeuvre of the artist Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, who was born in Vöcklabruck. At 21 she became the last private student of the hoary landscape painter Albert Zimmermann. Mediz-Pelikan studied at the Vienna Academy and followed her teacher Albert Zimmermann to Salzburg and Munich. In 1891 she married the painter and graphic artist Karl Mediz, with whom she first lived in Vienna and from 1894 on in Dresden. She was in contact with the Dachau artists' colony and undertook study trips to Paris, Belgium, Hungary and Italy. It was not until around 1900 that she achieved her artistic breakthrough with her landscape paintings. Since the estate of the artist, who died prematurely in Dresden in 1908, was stored in the former GDR until the 1980s, the artist was only rediscovered and re-evaluated relatively late, both in Austrian art history and on the art market. In 1986 the first major exhibitions took place in the Upper Austrian State Museum and in the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Like many Impressionist painters, Emilie Mediz-Pelikans subject was about nature and its changeability right from the start of her artistic activity. Her works are often immersed in an enraptured atmosphere. The motif of the birch trees, which she and her husband often used, is later also found in depictions by Klimt, Baar and Junk. In a letter to her husband from 1893, she describes her journey to Bohemian Chotěboř and the beauty of the trees in the area. Reading through the correspondence between the couple, the central importance of nature is immediately felt. The descriptions of the landscape and its vegetation are detailed, which Mediz-Pelikan also records in detailed sketches. Impressive works were also created on trips to the Adriatic Sea, to coastal towns such as Duino or Dubrovnik (Lacroma).

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