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Jane Holzer

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Jane Holzer
Born
Jane Brukenfeld

(1940-10-23) October 23, 1940 (age 84)
Other namesBaby Jane Holzer
Occupation(s)Art collector, film producer, actress, model
Known forWarhol superstar, Fashion icon
ChildrenCharles Holzer
RelativesAshley Holzer (daughter in-law)

Jane Holzer (née Brukenfeld; born October 23, 1940), is an American art collector and real estate investor. She is best known as a Warhol superstar, and she also worked as a model, actress, and film producer. Nicknamed Baby Jane Holzer, she appeared on the cover of British Vogue in 1964, and she was referred to as one of the "fashion revolutionaries" by Women's Wear Daily in 1966.[1]

Life and career

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Jane Brukenfeld grew up in Palm Beach, the daughter of real estate investor Carl Brukenfeld. His wealth came from Florida real estate, particularly in Miami and West Palm Beach.[2] She grew up in a Jewish household and attended Palm Beach High School.[3]

She attended Finch Junior College in Manhattan but "flunked out of college on purpose to become a model," she recounted.[2] In 1962, she married real estate investor, Leonard Holzer.[4] In 1963, her modeling career began to take off in London where she was photographed by David Bailey.[4] In 1964, Holzer told journalist Tom Wolfe: "Bailey created four girls that summer. He created Jean Shrimpton, he created me, he created Angela Howard and Susan Murray. There’s no photographer like that in America. Avedon hasn’t done that for a girl, Penn hasn't, and Bailey created four girls in one summer. He did some pictures of me for the English Vogue, and that was all it took."[4]

She was nicknamed "Baby Jane" Holzer by a newspaper columnist as a reference to the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Holzer was is considered to be one of the first Warhol superstars.[5] She was a young society wife when she was introduced to artist Andy Warhol in 1964.[2] British interior designer Nicky Haslam brought Warhol to a dinner party at Holzer's Park Avenue apartment in New York, where he also met Rolling Stones musician Mick Jagger for the first time.[6] Holzer later ran into Warhol on Madison Avenue and he asked to make films with him.[6] Warhol recalled in his memoir Popism (1980): "She was such a gorgeous girl—great skin and hair. And so much enthusiasm—she wanted to do everything. I asked her if she wanted to be in a movie and she got excited: 'Sure! Anything beats being a Park Avenue housewife!"[6]

In 1964, Holzer created a stir by attending the couture fashion shows in Paris.[7] Known for her mane of teased hair, she was highlighted in Vogue magazine's October 1964 issue.[7] As Diana Vreeland, editor of Vogue, put it, she was "the most contemporary girl I know."[2] The November 1964 edition of British Vogue featured her on the cover.[8]

Movies she appeared in included Andy Warhol's Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Batman Dracula (1964), and Camp (1965).[9]

In 1966, Holzer was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by Women's Wear Daily, alongside Edie Sedgwick, Tiger Morse, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mary Quant.[1]

In 1967, she played herself at a New York party in the pilot episode of the short-lived TV series, Coronet Blue.

She released the single "Rapunzel"/"Nowhere" in 1967 on Atco Records, produced by Al Kasha and arranged by Barry Goldberg.[10]

Holzer appeared in the independently produced Ciao! Manhattan (1972). She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Holzer became a prominent modern art collector and a real estate tycoon.[11][2] She lived in a six-story townhouse in New York, surrounded by her collection of art which includes Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.[2]

She now resides in Palm Beach, Florida.[12] Holzer also owns a significant amount of Palm Beach real estate, notably the restaurant Le Bilboquet, where she and Philippe Delgrange are business partners.[13][14]

In 2014, Holzer was the subject of an exhibition titled "To Jane, Love Andy" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.[3][15]

Personal life

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In 1962, she married Leonard Holzer, an heir to a New York real estate fortune. Holzer was noted for including art projects in his developments, particularly at the Smith Haven Mall.[16]

She was one of the attendants at the wedding of Mary McFadden and Philip Harari in 1964.[17]

Her son Charles “Rusty” Holzer was born in 1969. He competed for the United States Virgin Islands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in show jumping, and his wife Ashley Holzer is a dressage rider who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics.[18]

In pop culture

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Holzer is the subject of "Girl of the Year" in Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965).

Holzer was parodied as Baby Jane Towser in the 1967 Batman episode "Pop/Flop Goes the Joker", where she was played by Diana Ivarson.[19]

She is referenced twice (as Baby Jane) in the 1972 Roxy Music single "Virginia Plain".

References

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  1. ^ a b "Revolution In Fashion Reaction In New York: These Were The Revolutionaries". Women’s Wear Daily. Vol. 112, no. 74. April 14, 1966. pp. 4–5. ProQuest 1564944345.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lyden, Jacki (March 15, 2014). "'Baby Jane' Holzer's Flight From High Society To Warhol Superstar". NPR.
  3. ^ a b Kleinman, Rebecca (March 10, 2014). "Palm Beach Art Exhibit Honors Andy Warhol Muse Jane Holzer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Wolfe, Tom (1982). "The Girl of The Year". The Purple Decades: New Journalism 60s 70s Culture (1st ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 99–110.
  5. ^ "Jane Holzer: Factory Made". W Magazine. January 31, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  6. ^ a b c Warhol, Andy; Hackett, Pat (1980). POPism: The Warhol '60s (1st ed.). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-0-15-173095-7.
  7. ^ a b "Mrs. Leonard Holzer—And The Paris She Stopped Cold". Vogue. 144 (6): 147. October 1964.
  8. ^ "Vogue Magazine - 1964 - November". www.vanessatreasure.co.uk. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  9. ^ "Batgirlbat-trap". Archived from the original on May 28, 2018. Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  10. ^ "Repunzel (Baby Jane Holzer)". 45cat.com. May 1967. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  11. ^ Hinsche, Kate (June 27, 2024). "Todd Glaser, Warhol muse Baby Jane buy their Palm Beach neighbor's house for $16M". The Real Deal. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  12. ^ Read, Bridget (April 24, 2023). "What Happened to Baby Jane Holzer, the Original Warhol Girl?". The Cut. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  13. ^ "Jane Holzer Has No Interest in Ryan Murphy's Andy Warhol Doc". Avenue Magazine. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  14. ^ "Manhattan's Best Restaurants Are Opening... 1,200 Miles Away". Town & Country. February 22, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2024.
  15. ^ February 20 (February 20, 2014). "FOR THE LOVE OF JANE, ANDY AND DAVID". Palm Beach Florida Weekly. Retrieved December 3, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Rattiner, Dan (March 25, 2011). "Dan's Papers - March 25, 2011 - Legs". Danshamptons.com. Retrieved March 29, 2011.[permanent dead link‍]
  17. ^ Charlotte Curtis, "Mary McFadden Married to Philip Harari at St. Bartholomew's; Former Dior Aide is Wed to Director in De Beers Group", The New York Times, September 26, 1964.
  18. ^ "Holzer is Pop Art's biggest fan | Your Passport to the Beijing Olympics - SCMP". Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  19. ^ p. 259 Spigel, Lynn TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television University of Chicago Press, 2008
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