!!!Zuckerkandl-Szeps, Berta

b. Vienna, April 13, 1864, 
d. Paris (France), Oct. 16, 1945, writer and journalist, daughter of 
M.  Szeps, wife of Emil  Zuckerkandl, sister-in-law of the French 
Prime Minister G. Clemenceau. Her home became a meeting place for 
famous personalities from the world of arts and culture (e.g. G.  
Klimt, G.  Mahler, M.  Reinhardt, A.  Schnitzler). Z.-S. promoted new 
artistic styles and together with others initiated the  Salzburg 
Festival; in 1938 she emigrated to Paris and later to Algier.

!Works
Dekorative Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, 1900; Zeitkunst, 1908; Ich 
erlebte 50 Jahre Weltgeschichte, 1939; Oe. intim. Erinnerungen 
1892-1942, ed. by R. Federmann, 1970.

!Literature
R. Redl, B. Z. und die Wr. Ges., doctoral thesis, 
Vienna 1978; L. O. Meysels, In meinem Salon ist Oe., 1984.



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