page_title: Stephanie Hollenstein
section_title: World War I
hierarchical_section_title: Stephanie Hollenstein / Biography / World War I
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Dr. Franziska Gross
context_page_description: Stephanie Hollenstein was an Austrian Expressionist landscape and still-life painter.
context_section_description: At the beginning of World War I, she took a medical training course and, in 1915, went to Vorarlberg, where she joined the Standschützen under the name "Stephan Hollenstein".  Although her comrades-in-arms were aware of the deception, her superiors did not discover it for several months; at which time she was sent home.
  This incident attracted public attention, however, and she was assigned as a war painter for the "Kriegspressequartier" (War Press Bureau). In that capacity, she was sent to the front on three occasions and, in 1916, was among the first recipients of the Karl Troop Cross. She later received numerous commissions from the Museum of Military History. 
  After the war, she lived in Vienna with her companion, Franziska Groß (1900-1973), who later became a doctor, and held several exhibitions with the Künstlerhaus Wien, the Vienna Secession and the Hagenbund. Her activities were interrupted for a time in 1928, following an accident that resulted in a double ankle fracture, but she was able to get treatment from Lorenz Böhler, a doctor who is credited with establishing the field of accident surgery. She recovered completely and made extensive travels through Germany and Italy.
caption: Portrait of
   Dr. Franziska Groß
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