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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.

  • Place

    Vienna (Austria)

  • Genre

    Cityscapes

  • Medium

    Etchings; Prints

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

“Dreimäderlhaus” [Three Girls’ Home] is a late classicistic building in Vienna, mistakenly associated with the composer Franz Schubert and his fictitious liaison with one of three sisters.

The commercial artist Emil Ranzenhofer (1864-1930) was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, the fourth of eight children of Heinrich and Regina (Wengraf) Ranzenhofer. Starting in 1880, he studied at Vienna’s Akademie der Bildenden Künste under Christian Griepenkerl and Leopold Karl Müllers, followed by military service from 1883-1885. Ranzenhofer designed primarily posters, book illustrations, postcards, and bookplates based on his watercolors, oil paintings, and etchings. He also designed fund raising certificates used by the Jewish National Fund, and as volunteer in World War I, Ranzenhofer depicted war scenes for the Austrian-Hungarian Kriegspressequartier [War Press Headquarters]. – Married to Anna Laura (Chasel) he had a son, Heinrich (Heinz), born in 1896 and a daughter, Renee, born in 1900. Emil Ranzenhofer died in 1930.

[source: http://ranzenhofer.info/introduction/biographicalsketch.html]

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