June 22 "Vjera Biller. Eine 'vergessene' Künstlerin [A 'forgotten' artist]" (book presentation and discussion)

Vjera Biller (*1903 in Đakovo, today Croatia, +1940 in Hartheim) belongs to a whole generation of "forgotten" female artists who celebrated great successes in the 1920s, but who, after being persecuted by the Nazi regime, were completely lost from collective memory and have disappeared from the canon of art history.
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Due to a mental illness, Vjera Biller, who belonged to the Yugoslav avant-garde of the interwar period, was admitted to the Am Feldhof mental hospital in Graz. In May 1940 she was taken to Hartheim to be exterminated as part of “Aktion T4”. Biller's family was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust because of their Jewish descent. After the book presentation by Mirjam Wilhelm, a panel discussion will be devoted to the topic "Forgotten Female Artists from Vjera Biller to Ida Maly". History(s) of persecution, coming to terms with it, remembrance”. In addition to the author, the participants are: Fani Gargova (Vienna University), Brigitte Reutner-Doneus, Karin Schneider (both Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz) and Birgit Kirchmayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz). A cooperation event of the Memoiral Site Hartheim Castle and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Wednesday, June 22, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Memorial Site Hartheim Castle, Alkoven
Registration is requested by June 20, 2022.

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