Mileva Roller (February 18, 1886 – May 6, 1949) was an Austrian painter in the
Viennese Secession movement.
Life
Mileva Stojsavljevic was born on 14 February 1886 in
Innsbruck
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.
[ Her father, Milos Stojsavljevic, was a Serb from ]Velika Popina
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Population/Demographics
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in Croatia, and her mother, Adelheid Hohenauer, was an Austrian
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porcelain painting
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teacher at the Vienna Women's Academy. Her younger brother, Raoul Stojsavljevic
Raoul Stojsavljevic (July 28, 1887 – September 2, 1930) was an Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories. His later career took him to postwar service in aviation both military and civilian. His younger sister wa ...
, was born in 1887 and he became a flying ace.
In 1906, she married the artist Alfred Roller.Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's prim ...
and Josef Hoffmann designed clothes for themselves and their families.[
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Private life
She and Alfred had two sons Dietrich (1909-2001) who became a doctor and Ulrich (1911-1941) who became a stage designer and who, as an SS guard, died in Stolpovo near Kaluga (in the Soviet Union) during the Russian campaign at the end of 1941.
Mileva has been described, by Brigitte Hamann, as 'an enthusiastically pro-Hitler Serbian'. When Ulrich died on the Moscow front, Winifred Wagner wrote to Mileva, a woman she did not personally know:
The news has just reached me, though I cannot grasp it yet, that your dear son Uli has died a hero's death for his fatherland and his beloved Führer. I bow my head in silent respect for what you, his mother, must be going through...For us it is like losing a dear member of the family. (Bayreuth
Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...
is in mourning) for the loss of such an extraordinarily gifted artist - whom Wieland had selected to be his eventual collaborator ...Now his young life has been fulfilled, and he died as he lived: believing in the Führer and the National Socialist ideal; believing in the great fatherland of the future. He was faithful unto death, and set a shining example to us all.
In a later statement, the Roller family contradicted Winifred's opinion.
Legacy
Her work was included in the 2019 exhibition ''City Of Women: Female artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938'' at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.
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Austrian painters
Austrian people of Serbian descent
1886 births
1949 deaths
Artists from Innsbruck
