Hede von Trapp

Hede von Trapp
Born	(1877-11-18)18 November 1877 Pula, Austria-Hungary
Died	29 December 1947(1947-12-29) (aged 70) Korneuburg, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Known for	Poetry Graphic design Painting
Movement	Art Nouveau

Hede von Trapp (18 November 1877 – 29 December 1947) was an Austrian poet, painter and graphic designer of the Art Nouveau movement.

Biography

Trapp was born in Pula, Austria-Hungary, on 18 November 1877. She was the daughter of the August von Trapp, who only a year earlier (1876) had been raised to Austrian knighthood. Her younger brother was the U-boat commander Georg Ritter von Trapp (1880–1947), father of the Trapp singing family portrayed in The Sound of Music. Hede Trapp worked as a writer and poet. She studied in the master class of the Berlin painter Erich Ludwig Stahl. From 1909, she started to illustrate her own books. In July 1911, she had an exhibition with 70 pen drawings and etchings in the Miethke Gallery in Vienna. In 1914, she participated from 1 February to 31 March at the International Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen. She lived and worked in Korneuburg, where the Hede-von-Trapp-Straße is named after her.

Trapp died on 29 December 1947 in Korneuburg, Austria.

External links

• The International Studio, Volume 49, page 240-241
• Items by Hede von Trapp on Europeana Collections