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Berta Szeps
Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps (born Bertha Szeps; 13 April 1864 – 16 October 1945) was an Austrian writer, journalist and art criticism, art critic. Bertha Szeps was the daughter of Galician Jews, Galician Jewish liberal newspaper publisher Moritz Szeps and grew up in Vienna. She was married to the Hungarian anatomist Emil Zuckerkandl. In 1886 she married Zuckerkandl, who was then University of Graz professor of medicine. In 1888 the couple moved to Vienna, where he had obtained a professorship. From 1888 until 1938, Zuckerkandl led a major literary salon in Vienna, an informal weekly get-together, originally from a villa in Nußwaldgasse, Döbling, later in the Oppolzergasse near the Burgtheater. Many famous Viennese artists and personalities, including Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Max Reinhardt, Arthur Schnitzler Stefan Zweig, Egon Friedell and others, such as French sculptor Auguste Rodin when in Vienna, frequented the salon. Protégés of the salon include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
Princess Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (born as ''Brachfeld Vilma Erzsébet'', Hajdúdorog, 15 April 1863 - New York, 28 August 1923) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian-born portrait painter who worked in the German Empire and the United States. She is known to have painted about 120 portraits of prominent Americans and Europeans between 1884 and 1923. Early life Elisabeth von Parlaghy received her education as an artist in Budapest and later by Franz Quaglio and Wilhelm Dürr the Younger in Munich, where she adopted the style of Franz von Lenbach. A portrait of her mother gained her public notice in Berlin in 1890. That year, controversy erupted over a portrait either of von Moltke or of the German Emperor William II, German Emperor, William II; sources vary. It was rejected on its initial submission by the jury of the International Exposition at Berlin, but restored at the personal request, or order, of the Emperor. Her exhibition of portraits in the Salon de Paris from 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
