Alice Gurschner

Alice Gurschner (née Pollak, 8 October 1869, Vienna – 26 March 1944, Vienna) was an Austrian writer. She wrote largely under the masculine pen name Paul Althof.

Life

Pollak grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Vienna, and received private lessons in her secondary school subjects, music and modern languages. In 1897 she married the sculptor Gustav Gurschner, a co-founder of the Vienna Secession, and had three children by him. Some of her work was published in the Secession magazine Ver Sacrum. Her family did not approve of her marriage to a Catholic. After the marriage, the Gurschners lived in Paris for two years. After her father's death in 1905, she converted to Catholicism and became a monarchist and an Austro-Hungarian nationalist.

As 'Paul Althof', she had newspaper and magazine articles published in the Neue Wiener Journal, the Illustritre Wiener Extrablatt, the Wiener Fremden-Blatt, the Österreichische Volks-Zeitung and the Berliner Börsen-Courier.

She was a member of the Austrian Association of Women Artists.

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