Irma Komlosy Explained

Irma Komlosy
Birth Name:Maria Johanna Komlosy
Birth Date:15 August 1850
Birth Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:Schrabatz, Austria
Nationality:Austrian
Field:Painting
Training:Kunstgewerbeschule Wien

Maria Johanna "Irma" Komlosy (1850–1919) was an Austrian painter known for her flower painting.

Biography

Komlosy was born in 1850 in Prague.[1] [2] She was the daughter of the Hungarian artist and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wien. She specialized in flower painting and was compared favorably with Paul de Longpré. She exhibited at Vienna Artist Unit and the Austrian Art Union. She also taught painting.[2]

Komlosy exhibited her work in the rotunda of The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[3]

In 1895 Komlosy moved to New York where she set up a studio in the Women’s Exchange Building at 12 East 30th Street. In 1897 she moved to Washington D.C., and around 1905 she returned to Austria.[2]

Komlosy never married. She died in 1919 in Schrabatz, now part of Neulengbach, Austria.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Baumgartner . Marianne . Der Verein der Schriftstellerinnen und Künstlerinnen in Wien: (1885-1938) . 2015 . Böhlau Verlag Wien . 9783205797029 . de.
  2. Web site: Irma Komlosy - Artist Biography for Irma Komlosy . AskArt . 2 November 2018.
  3. Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 2 November 2018.