Marie Egner - Buy or sell works
25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg (Austria) - 31 March 1940, Vienna (Austria)
Marie Egner is one of the most important Austrian artists of the period around 1900 and representatives of Austrian Impressionism. The artist had great success with her depictions of flowers, and her motifs were poetically rendered through a natural play of light and shadow.
Marie Egner was born in Bad Radkersburg on 25 August 1850. Her family moved to Graz in 1865, where she was taught by the landscape painter Hermann von Königsbrunn at the Steiermärkische Landeszeichenschule from 1867 to 1872. She then went to Düsseldorf to study oil painting with Carl Jungheim, where she met Hugo Darnaut. In the spring of 1875 Marie Egner returned to Graz, and in the autumn of the same year moved to Vienna, where she opened a private painting school in her studio. In 1880, Marie Egner met Emil Jakob Schindler, and along with his other students Carl Moll and Olga Wisinger-Florian spent the summer months from 1882 to 1887 at Plankenberg Castle in Lower Austria. There the artists studied plein air painting in detail. Marie Egner undertook numerous trips abroad, to Dalmatia, Corfu, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. In 1888, she had her first exhibition abroad, at the Royal Academy in London. Exhibitions followed at the Royal Glass Palace in Munich in 1891, at the Berlin Art Exhibition in 1898 and at the Paris World’s Fair in 1900. Marie Egner celebrated her national breakthrough at the Künstlerhaus Exhibition in 1894.
Marie Egner belonged to a group of emancipated female artists with whom she founded the association “Acht Künstlerinnen” (Eight Women Artists) and organised regular exhibitions at the Kunstsalon Pisko between 1901 and 1912. "The Art of Women" was the theme of the 37th Secession Exhibition in 1910, at which Marie Egner was present. Despite an eye condition, the artist was active into old age and created around 3000 works over the course of her life. She died in Vienna on 31 March 1940. Today, her paintings can be found in public collections such as the Belvedere in Vienna, the Neue Galerie in Graz and the Museum Niederösterreich in St. Pölten. The works of the Austrian watercolourist, still life, and landscape painter are highly valued on the auction market.