Helena Gleichen

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Henry Bullingham : Helena Gleichen as Joan of Arc (1897)
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Lady Helena Gleichen (born February 1, 1873 in London ; died January 28, 1947 there ) was a British painter and noblewoman.

Life

Helena Gleichen was a daughter of the German-British professional soldier and painter Count Victor Gleichen aka Prince Viktor zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1833-1891) and Laura Williamina Seymour (1832-1912), a daughter of Admiral George Seymour. Since the connection was considered to be morganatic , the wife was ennobled to Countess Gleichen before the wedding in Germany and could thus be admitted to the court of Queen Victoria , who was an aunt of the father. The other children from the marriage were the sculptor Feodora Gleichen (1861–1922), the professional soldier Edward Gleichen (1863–1937) and the singer Victoria Gleichen (1868–1951). During the First World War, the siblings renounced their German nobility titles.

During World War I she worked as a nurse for the British Red Cross and was employed as the head of an X-ray station on the Italian front in Cormons . She received the Italian Medal of Valor as a war award and became an officer of the Order of the British Empire .

Same painted portraits and pictures of horses. She was a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London .

Fonts

Autobiography
  • Contacts and Contrasts. Reminiscences. With plates, including portraits, and a map . London, 1940
    • Contacts and Contrasts . Introduction Caroline Stone. Kilkerran: Mansion Field, 2013
Exhibitions
  • Modern and contemporary pictures and drawings principally of the English schools . London: Sotheby's, 1933
  • Catalogo della mostra di quadri di lady Helena Gleichen: Milano, Castello Sforzesco, febbraio 1934 . Milano: E. Bestetti, 1934
  • Catalog of an exhibition of paintings by the Lady Helena Gleichen and sculpture by O'Connor Barrett, Maurice Lambert, Mrs. RM Milward and JR Skeaping: 28th March to 18th April, 1936 . Birmingham: City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1936

literature

  • Kathryn J. Atwood: Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics . Chicago Review Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61374-686-8 pp. 106-116

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personal data
SURNAME Same, Helena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and noblewoman
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1947
Place of death London