Lulu from Thürheim

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Lulu Countess Thürheim. Self-portrait, around 1832

Ludovica Franziska Maria gen. "Lulu" Countess of Thürheim (* 14. March 1788 at Castle Orlbeck at Tirlemont ; † 22. May 1864 in Döbling ) was an Austrian painter and writer .

Life

Ludovika Countess Thürheim - called "Lulu" or "Lou" - grew up as the daughter of Josef Wenzel Graf von Thürheim (1749–1808) and Luise Berghe von Trips (1759–1812) in what was then the Austrian Netherlands , today's Belgium . While fleeing the French Revolution , the family came to Vienna in 1794 , where Lulu soon played an important role in society. Since 1813 canon of the noble women's monastery Maria Schul zu Brno , she traveled extensively through Europe in the 1820s and in 1832 secretly married Charles Thirion, the secretary of her brother-in-law Prince Andrei Kirillowitsch Rasumowski , who committed suicide that same year. She painted portraits and landscapes. Her memoirs, written in French, in which she describes the Congress of Vienna, among other things , are important as a source of cultural and social history during the Austrian restoration period. Her close friends included the Greek freedom fighters Prince Alexander Ypsilanti and Ioannis Antonios Graf Kapodistrias .

After Philipp von Blittersdorf (1869-1944) under the pseudonym René van Rhyn from 1910 (Issue 1) in the Österreichische Rundschau, parts under the title The Society at the time of the Congress of Vienna. After the Countess Luise Thürheim had published the notes , he published her memoirs in book form in 1914. For the first two parts he had a finished manuscript, the last two parts he put together from letters and diary entries.

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  • My life. Memories from Austria's big world 1788–1852 (adFrz., Ed. By René van Rhyn), 4 vols., Munich: G. Müller 1913 f., Published in the series Memoirs from Old Austria as volumes 7, 8, 11 and 12

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SURNAME Thürheim, Lulu from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thürheim, Ludovika Countess von; Thürheim, Loulou; Thürheim, Luise Francisca von; Thirion, Lulu (married name); Thürheim, Ludovica Francisca Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirlemont
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1864
Place of death Dobling