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Olga Weisinger FlorianOlga Wisinger Florian (1844-1926) was an Austrian painter, best known for her floral still lifes and landscapes. She is considered one of the leading painters of Austrian Mood Impressionism, an avant-garde group of the 1870s and 1880s.

She initially studied piano but turned to painting in the 1870s and took lessons from artists such as Melchior Fritsch, August Schaeffer and Emil Jakob Schindler.

Olga's artistic career began the same year she married her husband, and she began taking private painting lessons and established her own studio in 1884. Her early works were primarily in the Realist style, but by the mid-1890s she had turned to the Impressionist style, known for its dynamic and fluid brushwork.

Her work has not only been acclaimed locally in Vienna, but has also gained global recognition at international exhibitions in Paris and Chicago.

Olga’s work focuses on landscapes and flowers, using extreme perspectives and distant horizons to experiment with new spatial and visual experiences, referencing the young medium of photography through her “close-up views”.

She was an ambitious artist whose paintings were exhibited not only throughout Europe but also at the World's Fairs in Chicago in 1893, Paris in 1900, and St. Louis in 1904.

In addition to her artistic achievements, Wisinger-Florian was an astute businesswoman and advocate for women's rights. She used her family's wealth and social networks to climb the art market and frequented Vienna's high society events to enhance her public profile.

Her clients included Prince Ludwig, Regent of Bavaria, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Archduke Karl Ludwig, the Rothschilds, and even Emperor Franz Joseph I.

In 2019, two major exhibitions at Vienna’s Belvedere Palace and Leopold Museum brought Wisinger-Florian back into the public eye. Her diaries, which record her artistic thoughts and artistic evolution in detail, provide a unique insight into this versatile artist.

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