Friedrich Ludwig Berzeviczy-Pallavicini

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Friedrich Ludwig (von) Berzeviczy-Pallavicini , also Federico de Berzeviczy-Pallavicini (born April 12, 1909 in Lausanne , † November 11, 1989 in New York City ) was an Austro-Hungarian painter and graphic artist, interior designer and set designer.

Family grave of the Demel family with Friedrich Ludwig Berzeviczy-Pallavicini

The son of a wealthy landowner in Hungary was born as Friedrich Ludvig Berzeviczy von Berzevice and Kakaslomnitz with Hungarian citizenship. There is evidence that he attended the Theresianum in Vienna from 1918 to 1921 , but did not graduate from school. He studied from 1925 or 1926 at the Vienna School of Applied Arts , which he also did not graduate. Nonetheless, the young artist, described as somewhat egomaniacal, was valued and encouraged by individual professors at the school. He worked early on in the Wiener Werkstätte environment , created designs for the Augarten porcelain factory and became known for the displays he designed for the Demel confectionery in Vienna . In 1936 he married Klára Demel, Anna Demel's niece. From then on, Berzeviczy stayed in Italy more often. In 1938 he emigrated "voluntarily", as it is called in literature, to Capri and later to Milan for private and political reasons . In Italy he called himself Pallavicini after his mother's family. He worked there for various magazines. He moved from Italy to New York, where he received US citizenship in 1950. He worked there as an art director and interior designer . From 1956 he also designed the shop windows of the Demel confectionery. In 1965, after his wife's death, he became her owner for a few years, but had to sell in 1972. In 1982 he was made an honorary member of the University of Applied Arts and in 1989 he received its first honorary professorship. Berzeviczy died of a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment . The burial took place in early 1990 at the Central Cemetery in Vienna . The artist is buried in the family grave of the Demel family.

Works

  • Federico von Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Christian Brandstätter (ed.): The KK Hofzuckerbäckerei Demel: a Viennese fairy tale , with an essay by Gotthard Böhm . With 747 color and 28 black and white illustrations after photographs by Franz Hubmann . With 76 drawings and vignettes by Federico Pallavicini, Molden Wien, Munich, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-217-00766-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brezovica (until 1965 in Slovak "Brezovica nad Torysou"; in Hungarian Berzevice) is a municipality in northeastern Slovakia.
  2. ↑ Veľká Lomnica (until 1927 Slovak "Lomnica"; German Großlomnitz or Großlomnica, Hungarian Kakaslomnic - until 1902 Nagy-Lomnicz) is a municipality in northeastern Slovakia
  3. ↑ “ANOTHER WORLD: Friedrich von Berzeviczy-Pallavicini - his early Viennese work from the interwar period” (PDF; 3.7 MB), Waltraud Kaufmann: Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2010, p. 9.
  4. ↑ According to the diaries of Leo Lerman ( The Grand Surprise , ed. Stephen Pascal, New York, Alfred Knopf, 2007), this was an unconsumed marriage in which the “Aryan” but homosexual-oriented husband endangered him through Nazi racial politics Wife made it possible to survive the war in a monastery.
  5. ↑ “ANOTHER WORLD: Friedrich von Berzeviczy-Pallavicini - his early Viennese work from the interwar period” (PDF; 3.7 MB), Waltraud Kaufmann: Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2010, p. 11. Kaufmann also refers to the then increasing threat to homosexuals
personal data
SURNAME Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Friedrich Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Friedrich Ludwig; Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Friedrich Ludwig von (full name); Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Federico de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian painter and graphic artist, interior designer and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1989
Place of death New York City