Villa Jenny Groß
Bad Ischl, Dr. Höchsmannstraße 4
Bad Ischl, Dr. Höchsmannstraße 4
The artist Jenny Gross, the owner of the villa, (5 September 1863, Szántó (today Andau, Burgenland, Austria) - 8 May 1904, Berlin) was a well-known Austrian actress. Like her mentor Oscar Blumenthal, she loved spending the summer months in Ischl. She started to visit Ischl regularly with her siblings in 1886. In 1902, she bought this villa, but she only inhabited the villa for a short time because she died two years later and she mostly lived in Berlin, where she was a big star. She lived in Berlin with her sister Laura, who then inherited the villa in Bad Ischl.
In 1938, the villa was aryanized and then owned by the National Socialists. Laura Gross died in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Applying the Austrian Restitution Acts, her heirs were able to get the villa back in 1950, and two years later they sold the house to the owner of a Viennese printing house.
There was a repatriation of Jenny Gross‘s remains from Berlin to Vienna, where she was laid to rest in Vienna’s Central Cemetery.
