Max Mopp Oppenheimer (1885-1954)
Max Mopp Oppenheimer (1885-1954). Max Oppenheimer, also known under the pseudonym “Mopp”, was a landscape, genre, portrait and still life painter. He was also a graphic designer and a writer. From 1900 to 1903, he attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Griepenkerl and Sigmund L’Allemand, and from 1904 through 1906 he studied under […]
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908)
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908). Joseph Maria Olbrich was an Austrian architect and co-founder of the Secession (association). Olbrich was born in Opava, Austrian Silesia (today in the Czech Republic). He was the third child of Edmund and Aloisia Olbrich. He had two sisters who died before he was born, and two younger brothers, John and Edmund. […]
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880). Profession: Violoncellist, impresario, composer. Residences: Paris, Vienna, London. Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 20-06-1819 Cologne, Germany. Died: 05-10-1880 Paris, France. Buried: Montmartre cemetery, Paris, France. Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s-1870s […]
Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (1868-1949)
Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius (1868-1949). Profession: Soprano, singing teacher. Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 01-09-1868 Deurne, the Netherlands. Died: 06-04-1949 Hilversum, Villa Nieuw-Deurne, the Netherlands. Buried: 00-00-0000 Algemene Begraafplaats, Bosdrift, Hilversum, the Netherlands. Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius was a noted Dutch classical soprano who had an active performance career in the concert repertoire from 1888 up […]
Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922)
Arthur Nikisch (1855-1922). Arthur Nikisch (Hungarian: Nikisch Artúr) was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London and Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch’s performance of his Fourth Symphony as “quite exemplary, it’s impossible to hear it any […]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Friedrich Wilhelm was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, composer and Latin and Greek scholar. He wrote several critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor and irony. Nietzsche’s key ideas include perspectivism, the will to power, the death of God, the Übermensch and eternal recurrence. […]
Angelo Neumann (1838-1910)
Angelo Neumann (1838-1910). Profession: Intendant (in Bremen and 01-08-1885 at the Prague Königlich Deutsches Landestheater in Prague), conductor, baritone. Residences: Vienna, Leipzig, Bremen, Prague, Venice. Relation to Mahler: Intendant Königlich Deutsches Landestheater (Royal German Theatre). He hired Gustav Mahler in Prague starting 01-08-1885. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 18-08-1838 Stamfen (Stupava), Slovakia. Died: 20-12-1910 Prague, Czech Republic. Buried: 00-00-0000 Protestant […]
Albert Neisser (1855-1916)
Albert Neisser (1855-1916). Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae). Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now ?widnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After […]
Virginia Naumann-Gungl (1848-1915)
Virginia Naumann-Gungl (1848-1915). Profession: Soprano. Residences: Bremen, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Weimar, Vienna. Relation to Mahler: Love affair with Gustav Mahler in Kassel (1882), worked with Gustav Mahler. Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 31-12-1848 New York, America. (Hungarian roots) Died: 28-08-1915 Frankfurt, Germany. Buried: Unknown. Opera. There is some evidence that Mahler’s feelings were first fired […]
Moritz Nahr (1859-1945)
No photo. Moritz Nahr (1859-1945). Profession: Photographer. Secession (member). Residences: Relation to Mahler: Correspondence with Mahler: Born: 04-08-1859 Married: Antonie, piano teacher. Died: 29-06-1945. Aged 86. Buried: 06-07-1945 Baumgarten cemetery, Vienna, Austria. Grave K1-41. With his wife. Moritz Nähr, Naehr, Neer, was an Austrian photographer. Nahr was a friend of the members of the Vienna Secession art […]