Erika Giovanna Klien
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Erika Giovanna Klien was a female painter born in 12 April 1900 in Borgo Valsugana
(Trentino, Italy
).
She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule
in Vienna
(Austria
) in 1919 and graduated in 1925.
Her son Walter Klien
(* 27 November 1928 in Graz
, Austria; † 10 February 1991) became a pianist.
In 1929 she moved to the United States and had no more contact with her family.
She died on 19 July 1957 from a heart attack in New York City.
Borgo Valsugana
Borgo Valsugana is a comune in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 30 km east of Trento....
(Trentino, Italy
Italy
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).
She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule
Kunstgewerbeschule
A Kunstgewerbeschule was the old name for an advanced school of applied arts in German-speaking countries. The first such schools were opened in Kassel in 1867 and Berlin and Munich in 1868 with other German towns following. They are now merged into universities....
in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
(Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
) in 1919 and graduated in 1925.
Her son Walter Klien
Walter Klien
Walter Klien was an Austrian pianist.-Career:Klien was born in Graz. His mother was the artist Erika Giovanna Klien . She emigrated to the United States in 1929, and their only further contact was by correspondence.Klien studied piano with Josef Dichler at the Music Academy in Vienna and with...
(* 27 November 1928 in Graz
Graz
The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
, Austria; † 10 February 1991) became a pianist.
In 1929 she moved to the United States and had no more contact with her family.
She died on 19 July 1957 from a heart attack in New York City.
Exhibitions
- 1976: First retrospective at the Gallery Papst, Vienna
- 1986: retrospective at Gallery Pabst, Munich
- 1987: Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century), Vienna (250 works)
- 1989: Rachel Adler Gallery, New York
- 2001: Bolzano
- Permanently: Phillips Collection Art MuseumPhillips CollectionThe Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H...
in Washington, DC.