Dr. med Emilie Zokan

Dr. med Emilie ZOLKAN, née WEST: b. 13 April 1907, Wien - d. circa 6 April 1988, Graz

Basic birth data from IKG-Wien archives courtesy of www.genteam.at

Nr. 184579 Familienname West Vorname Emilie Code 1 Vorname des Vaters Isidor Name der Mutter Rosenfeld Vorname der Mutter Hedwig Ort Wien Buch Nr. 1907/1 IV Band 1907 Datum 13.04.1907 Zahl 960 Zusatz zur Zahl Folio Anmerkung 1. Ehe am 30.04.1947 StA XIX 155/47, gest. als Dr. Emilie Zokan serb-orth. in Graz 1038/88

Details from actual IKG-Wien birth registration, viewable courtesy of:

1907.04.13 - Emilie WEST - IKG-Wien BR:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8B24-21S?i=123&wc=...

Father: Isidor WEST, "Zahntechniker, geb. Tarnopol", son of Moses WEST & Rosa, née MANTEL

Mother: Hedwig ROSENFELD, b. Lundenburg, daughter of Adolf ROSENFELD & Bertha, née BAUER

m. 25.03.1906, Lundenburg

Witnesses: Oskar MARISCHEK & Herman? ROSENFELD

Listed under "Mediziner aus Wien" as per www.genteam.at

Lfdnr 22363 Familienname West Vorname Emilie Geburtsdatum 1907.04.13 Geburtsort Wien Beruf Religion jüdisch Quelle 197-0944 Nationalien Datum Rigorosen Datum 1931.05.02 Promotions/Sponsions Datum Medizin Chirurgie Chemie Pharmazie Universalmedizin (ab 1873) Ergänzung

Left the Jewish community as per www.genteam.at Nr. 26743 Familienname West Vorname Emilie Dr. Geburtsname Zahl 284 Zahl Zusatz Alter 28 Austrittsdatum 03.09.1935 Geburtsdatum 13.04.1907 Geburtsort Wien Bezirk Land Stand ledig Beruf Zahnärztin Wien Bezirk 3 Wien Strasse Kübeckg. Haus Nr. 16/I/15 zu Religion Anmerkung

Burial details courtesy of www.friedhoefewien.at

Personendaten

Titel: Dr. Vorname: Emilie Nachname: Zokan Künstlername Geburtsdatum Lebensalter: 81 Sterbedatum Bestattungsdatum: 07.04.1988 Grabdaten: Neustift Gruppe 15 Reihe: 9 Nummer: 1 Grabnutzungsrecht bis: 07.04.1998

Weiters in diesem Grab bestattet

Name Geburtsdatum Lebensalter

Zokan Ferdinand 68

Further details thanks to information on artist son "Franz WEST"::

https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/franz-west-at-tate-modern-1....

"West was born in Vienna in 1947, though his birth name was Franz Zokan. He was the product of an unlikely marriage between a Serbian coal merchant, Ferdinand Zokan, and a bourgeois Jewish woman, Emilie West.

Emilie was a dentist who survived the war in Yugoslavia. She ran her dental practice out of an apartment in central Vienna and had a number of patients who were involved in the creative arts. Franz formally changed his name to his mother’s surname in 1980.

The young Franz may well have been spoilt by his mother — she is said to have taken him on trips to Italy to view art — because he was certainly the baby of the family. His older sister Anne had been born in 1935, while his half-brother, Otto Kobalek, to whom he became very close, was 17 years older than him.

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Aside from her fondness for showing the young Franz art in Italy, his mother had another important element for the would-be artist — her relation, Paul Wengraf, who had opened an art gallery in Old Bond Street, in London. West first visited Wengraf, described as his step-uncle, in 1963. The gallery specialised in African art and antiques, and he is thought to have drawn inspiration in later life from the way in which the African masks and statues were displayed on pedestals and plinths."