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Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher belonged to a generation of female artists who were not admitted as women to the art academies. From 1904 she received her education at the art school for women and girls in Vienna. She learned the technique of etching from Ludwig Michalek and joined the Radierklub Wiener Künstlerinnen (Etching Club of Viennese Artists) founded by Michalek's students. Marianne Fieglhuber learned painting from Max Kurzweil and Rudolf Jettmar, and she also took private lessons with Robin Christian Andersen and Egge Sturm-Skrla. Soon her works were shown at the annual exhibitions of the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (Association of Female Visual Artists of Austria). Shortly after her marriage, her husband was drafted into the First World War, in 1915 their daughter Marianne was born, two years later their son Eduard. Her husband Eduard Gutscher came back from the war greatly changed and vehemently rejected her artistic career. Nevertheless, she continued to concentrate on her painting, her studio was her refuge over the years, where she could forget everyday life and devote herself completely to her artistic work. In order to be able to exhibit during the Nazi era, she joined the Reichskammer der bildenden Künste (Reich Chamber of Fine Arts) in 1939. When her works were rejected for an exhibition because they did not comply with the "cultural guidelines of the Führer", she retired to her second home in Kasten near Böheimkirchen. After the end of the war, she lived again in the Viennese apartment and commuted between Vienna, Kasten and Gratkorn near Graz, where her daughter lived with her family. After the death of her husband in 1955, the artist increasingly travelled to France, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Scotland, Finland and the former Czechoslovakia. She joined the Vereinigung Bildender Künstler der Steiermark (Association of Visual Artists of Styria) and took part in artistic life in Graz and Vienna. In 1977 her works were shown in the Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere. Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher died on 20th January 1978 in Graz, her grave is in the cemetery in Kasten. At the center of her work were mainly depictions of women, but she also created portraits, landscapes and still lifes.
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