KATHARINA ZIRNER (Vienna 1890 - 1927 Kasauli)
A sinner anoints Jesus, 1921
offset printing/paper, 25 x 32,4 cm
dated in the plate 1921 and monogrammed KZ

ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200
STARTING PRICE °€ 100

Katharina Zirner came from a wealthy Jewish Viennese family. Her father, Marton "Max" Zirner, was imperial-royal court jeweler. The Zwieback family, from which her mother came, owned several fashion houses in Vienna. Katharina Zirner studied painting with Anton Faistauer, was enthusiastic about theosophy and impressed with colorful and expressive paintings in the Expressionist style. Together with Frieda Salvendy, she shaped the artist group “Free Movement”, which sought to overcome the catastrophe of the First World War, which also had religious connotations. This group included, among others, the painters Georg Ehrlich, Helene Funke, Carry Hauser and Erich Heckel, the composer Josef Matthias Hauer, the architect Adolf Loos and Johannes Itten, the art theorist and founder of color type theory. The group saw itself in opposition to Art Nouveau and decoration. At the beginning of 1921, the association's fourth group exhibition took place in the Lorenz Art Salon. More than 60 drawings and prints by Hauser, Heckel, Salvendy, Zirner and others were shown. Zirner was also represented in exhibitions by the Association of Female Artists in Austria (VBKOE). In 1927 she married a fellow painter, Rudolf Rapaport, who later called himself Rudolf Ray in exile. The couple's honeymoon took them to India. Zirner was pregnant and died that same year a few weeks after the birth of her son Martin.

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