{{Short description|Austrian painter (1850–1940)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Marie Egner | image = Marie Egner Selbstporträt 1878.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Self-portrait (1878) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1850|8|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Bad Radkersburg, Austria | death_date = {{death date and age|1940|3|31|1850|8|25|df=y}} | death_place = Vienna, Austria | education = | field = Painting | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | website = {{URL|marieegner.at}} }}
[[File:Marie Egner Wochenmarkt in Marktbreit am Main.jpg|thumb|225px|Weekly Market in Marktbreit (date unknown)]] '''Marie Egner''' (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg - 31 March 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian painter.
== Life == Egner was born on 25 August 1850 in Bad Radkersburg, Austria.<ref name="RKD">{{cite web |title=Marie Egner |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/25704 |website=RKD |accessdate=4 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> She took her first drawing lessons in Graz with Hermann von Königsbrunn,<ref name="L">{{Cite web |url=http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/personen/personendetail.asp___id=515211544 |title=Geschichte NÖ: Brief biography |access-date=2014-10-08 |archive-date=2014-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014215136/http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/index.asp?contenturl=http://geschichte.landesmuseum.net/personen/personendetail.asp___id=515211544 |url-status=dead }}</ref> then went to Düsseldorf from 1872 to 1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim. In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler until 1887. A study trip to England followed from 1887 to 1889. Shortly after, her first exhibition was held at the Vienna Künstlerhaus.<ref name="L" /> She also exhibited in Germany and England.
Egner exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt10c.html#egner| accessdate=3 April 2020}}</ref> Along with Tina Blau and Olga Wisinger-Florian she was part of the Austrian "{{Interlanguage link|Stimmungsimpressionismus|de}}.<ref name="Dorotheum">{{cite web |title=Marie Egner |url=https://www.dorotheum.com/en/k/marie-egner/ |website=Dorotheum |accessdate=4 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Egner established an art school for women, but had to give it up in 1910, for health reasons. After World War I, she became a member of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ). In 1926, the group held a major retrospective exhibition of her work. After 1930, she began to lose her eyesight and withdrew from public life.<ref name="L" />
She died on 31 March 1940 in Vienna.<ref name="RKD"/>
==Legacy== Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition ''City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938'' at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.<ref name="Belvedere">{{cite web |title=City of Women |url=https://www.belvedere.at/en/city-women-0 |website=Belvedere Museum Vienna |accessdate=26 June 2020}}</ref>
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== Further reading == * Werner Fenz: ''Marie Egner 1850-1940. Landschaften, Blumenbilder''. Exhibition catalog. Graz: Neue Galerie, 1979 * [http://www.suppanfinearts.com/en/publications/werkverzeichnisse/marie-egner Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 1. Vienna:] Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1981 (with diaries and memoirs) {{ISBN|978-3-901255-08-3}} * [http://www.suppanfinearts.com/en/publications/werkverzeichnisse/marie-egner-2 Martin Suppan: ''Marie Egner. Eine österreichische Stimmungsimpressionistin''. Vol 2. Vienna:] Galerie Suppan Fine Arts, 1993 (with diaries and memoirs) {{ISBN|978-3-901255-08-3}}
== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Marie Egner}} * [http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/private/egner_marie/artworks/8928/0/ Arcadja Auctions: More works by Egner] * {{DNB-Portal|119165880}} * [http://fraueninbewegung.onb.ac.at/Pages/PersonDetail.aspx?p_iPersonenID=11256026 Marie Egner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816104536/http://fraueninbewegung.onb.ac.at/Pages/PersonDetail.aspx?p_iPersonenID=11256026 |date=2016-08-16 }} ''Frauen in Bewegung'' @ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek * [http://www.marie-egner.info/en Biography, Literature and Works by Marie Egner]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Egner, Marie}} Category:1850 births Category:1940 deaths Category:People from Bad Radkersburg Category:Painters from Austria-Hungary Category:19th-century Austrian painters Category:20th-century Austrian painters Category:20th-century Austrian women painters Category:19th-century Austrian women painters