The Salon of Berta Zuckerkandl

Berta Zuckerkandl

Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps, born Berta Szeps was an Austrian writer, journalist, and critic....

-Szeps existed in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 from the end of the 19th Century until 1938. It was located in her Viennese residence in the Palais Lieben-Auspitz

Palais Lieben-Auspitz

Palais Lieben-Auspitz is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna, Vienna, located in the city's Innere Stadt.Originally built for the Auspitz family in the late 19th century, later the Lieben family also lived there. Unlike traditional, baroque noble palaces in Vienna, the Palais Lieben-Auspitz was built in...

 on the Ringstraße

Ringstraße

The Ringstraße is a circular road surrounding the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria and is one of its main sights...

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The first salon was held in a mansion in the Nusswaldgasse in Döbling

Döbling

Döbling is the 19th District in the city of Vienna, Austria . It is located on the north end from the central districts, north of the districts Alsergrund and Währing...

. Later it was held in the Palais Lieben-Auspitz

Palais Lieben-Auspitz

Palais Lieben-Auspitz is a Ringstraßenpalais in Vienna, Vienna, located in the city's Innere Stadt.Originally built for the Auspitz family in the late 19th century, later the Lieben family also lived there. Unlike traditional, baroque noble palaces in Vienna, the Palais Lieben-Auspitz was built in...

 at the Oppolzergasse 6 at the Ringstraße

Ringstraße

The Ringstraße is a circular road surrounding the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, Austria and is one of its main sights...

. The salon was formed in the tradition of Fanny von Arnstein

Fanny von Arnstein

Baroness Franziska "Fanny" von Arnstein, born Vögele Itzig was a leader of society in Vienna....

's literary salons in the days of the Congress of Vienna

Congress of Vienna

The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September, 1814 to June, 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars,...

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Bertha Zuckerkandl's salon claimed such famous participants as Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects...

, Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...

, Max Reinhardt

Max Reinhardt (theatre director)

----Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theater and film director and actor.-Biography:...

 and Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

. She also supported such artists as Anton Kolig and Sebastian Isepp from the so-called “Nötscher Kreis”.

Her sister Sofie was married to Paul Clemenceau - the brother of the French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau

Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman, physician and journalist. He served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. For nearly the final year of World War I he led France, and was one of the major voices behind the Treaty of Versailles at the...

- giving the salon connections to Parisian circles.