Adalbert Seligmann

Adalbert Franz Seligmann (April 2, 1862 in Vienna; December 13, 1945 in Vienna) was a Viennese painter and art critic. The son of the Viennese medical historian Romeo Seligmann, he mingled in the intellectual circles of Vienna from a young age. Particularly valued as a teacher around the turn of the century, this history painter also wrote art critiques for the Neue Freie Presse and explored the relationship between writers such as Goethe and Franz Grillparzer and the visual arts. Seligmann earned particular recognition as one of the co-founders of the Women's Art School, which later became the Vienna Women's Academy. Seligmann's probably most famous painting depicts the surgeon Theodor Billroth operating in front of an assembled audience in a lecture hall.