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    Artist

  • Ranzenhofer, Emil, 1864-1930

    • Title

  • Dreimäderlhaus

  • Physical Description

    1 etching : ink and watercolor on paper ; 13 1/4" x 12", 33.5 cm x 30.5 cm

  • Date

    early 20th century

  • Notes

    Signed in pencil in lower right corner. Notations written beneath the image on the lower left hand side "Wien VII Dreimäderlhaus."

  • Summary

    View of a large building with small dog sitting in front. The building has an archway underneath a balcony, and ivy covers the building on the right hand side.

  • Genre

    Cityscapes

  • Medium

    Etchings; Prints

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Biographical/Historical Information

Emil Ranzenhofer (1864-1930) was born in Vienna, the fourth of eight children in a Jewish family born to Heinrich and Regina (Wengraf) Ranzenhofer. Starting in 1880, he studied at the Wien Akademie der Bildenden Kunste under Professor Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Karl Müllers. He was a contemporary of Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and the Marquis von Bayros at the art academy. He briefly left the school in order to attend military service from 1883-1885. Ranzenhofer married Anna Laura Chasel in 1893; they had a son, Heinrich (Heinz) was born in 1896 and a daughter, Renee, born in 1900. Ranzenhofer's art career was mostly commerical art (poster design, book illustrations, postcards, and bookplates), plus watercolors, oil paintings, and etchings. He illustrated some twenty-seven books in the Kushners Bucherschatz series of novels. Though his work was mostly secular, he also desiged many of the early fund raising certificates used by the Jewish National Fund. During World War I, Ranzenhofer volunteered for the K.u.K. Kriegspressequartier Kunst Gruppe (Imperial and Royal War Press Headquarters art group), depicting war scenes for various media outlets. He never quite recovered the same success in his art career after World War I, and he died in 1930. [source: http://ranzenhofer.info/introduction/biographicalsketch.html]

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Ranzenhofer, Emil: Dreimäderlhaus, Leo Baeck Institute, 2023.60.