Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

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Marie Louise von Motesiczky, 1988

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (born October 24, 1906 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † June 10, 1996 in London ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born on October 24, 1906 in Vienna. Your father Dr. Edmund von Motesiczky (Motesiczky von Kesseleökeö) comes from a family of the Hungarian nobility and died (as a Hungarian citizen, responsible for Moravan ) on December 12, 1909 in Vienna. Her mother Henriette, née von Lieben, came from a Jewish banking family in Vienna and was the sister of the inventor of the radio tube, Robert Hermann von Lieben . Marie-Louise's older brother Karl Motesiczky (* 1904) stayed in Hinterbrühl after the annexation of Austria , helped numerous people to escape from the Greater German Reich , was denounced and died in Auschwitz in 1943. your grandmotherAnna von Lieben went down in the history of psychology as one of Sigmund Freud's first patients . Her great-grandmother Sophie von Todesco (1825–1895) ran a well-known artist salon in Vienna in the monumental Palais Todesco . Johann Strauss , Anton Rubinstein , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Henrik Ibsen counted. With the Nobility Repeal Act of 1919, she lost her title of nobility.

As a young woman she studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Max Beckmann (1884–1950). Beckmann influenced her artistically very much; he became her mentor and was a lifelong friend.

After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, she fled with her mother to the Netherlands, where she had her first solo exhibition in 1939. Shortly afterwards she fled via London to Amersham , where she lived until the end of World War II. From 1945 until her death she lived in London-Hampstead .

Grave of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky in the Dobling cemetery

In London she deepened her acquaintance with Oskar Kokoschka (1896–1980), whom she had known from his youth in Vienna and who had been a friend of the family. She became a friend and lover of the poet Elias Canetti ; In 1942 he wrote the (posthumously published) collection of aphorisms records for Marie-Louise and dedicated it to her. Her portrait of Canetti hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. On a trip to Mexico in 1958 she met her old child friend, the surrealist Wolfgang Paalen , whom she tried in vain to convince to return to Europe. Paalen committed suicide in 1959.

After several solo exhibitions in Europe, the first major solo exhibition in her former home was dedicated to her in 1966 at the Vienna Secession .

Marie-Louise Motesiczky died on June 10, 1996 in London. She is buried in the Dobling cemetery .

On her hundredth birthday, her work was honored in a traveling exhibition ( Tate Liverpool , Museum Giersch Frankfurt, Wien Museum , Southampton City Art Gallery ), and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation produced an extensive TV portrait.

In 2009 the Motesiczkyweg in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after her.

power

Marie-Louise Motesiczky was a hitherto little noticed artist who could afford to work for herself regardless of the prevailing art market. It was only recently that the value of her painting began to be recognized. The influence of Max Beckmann on her work is obvious. She remained true to representational painting throughout her life. Thematically, she dealt mainly with portrait painting, in which pictures of her old mother are of particular interest, which depict this old, decrepit person without sentimentality and unadorned, but with noticeable love. In addition, she created pictures from her garden, landscapes and still lifes.

Quote

"If you could only paint a single good picture in your lifetime, your life would be worthwhile."

"If you paint just one good picture while you are alive, it will be worth your whole life."

- Marie-Louise Motesiczky

Works

  • Kröpfelsteig in der Hinterbrühl , oil on canvas, 1927, (London, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust)
  • At the seamstress , oil on canvas, 1930, ( Cambridge , Fitzwilliam Museum )
  • Self-portrait with a red hat , 50.7 × 35.5 cm, oil on canvas, 1938, (London, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust)
  • Self-portrait in black , 105.6 × 59 cm, oil on canvas, 1959, (London, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust)
  • Elias Canetti , 1960, oil on canvas, ( Vienna , Wien Museum )
  • Mother with a staff , oil on canvas, 1977, (London, Hayward Gallery )
  • The Glass House , 55.7 × 81.5 cm, oil on canvas, 1979, (London, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust)
  • Still life vase with flowers , 61 × 45.7 cm, oil on canvas, 1996, (London, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust)

See also

literature

  • Jeremy Adler, Birgit Sander (eds.): Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996) . Prestel, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3693-2 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Liverpool from April 11 to August 13, 2006).
  • Elias Canetti, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: Lovers Without Address - Correspondence 1942-1992 (edited by Ines Schlenker and Kristian Wachinger), Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23735-3
  • Evi Fuks et al. (Ed.): The loved ones. 150 years of history of a Viennese family . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77321-7 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Vienna from November 11, 2004 to April 3, 2005).
  • Jill Lloyd: The Undiscovered Expressionist. A Life of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky . Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-12154-4 ( preview in English )
  • Eva Michel: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996). An Austrian student of Max Beckmann . University of Vienna 2003 (unpublished diploma thesis).
  • Sabine Plakholm-Forsthuber: Women Artists in Austria 1897-1938 . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-85452-122-7 .
  • Stephan Reimertz : Max Beckmann. Biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-50558-4 .
  • Klaus Schröder: New Objectivity, Austria 1918-38 . Kunstforum Bank Austria, Vienna 1995 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Vienna from April 1 to July 2, 1995).
  • Marie-Louise Motesiczky . In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 286 .

Web links

Commons : Marie-Louise von Motesiczky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Convocations (...) Dr. Edmund von Motesiczky. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 11/19010, January 15, 1910, p. 60, column 3. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  2. ↑ see also Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: Max Beckmann as a teacher. Memories of a pupil of the painter . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung January 11, 1964 (again in: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky . Catalog of the Austrian Gallery in the Upper Belvedere. Vienna 1994.
  3. ^ A b Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (April 11 - August 13, 2006) - Exhibition Guide. (No longer available online.) Tate Liverpool, 2006, archived from the original on June 28, 2009 ; accessed on February 21, 2011 (English, with some of your pictures). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk
  4. ↑ The Motesiczkys - Still Life with Cello, Hunting Dog and Easel . TV documentary (2006)
  5. ↑ Jill Lloyd: The Undiscovered Expressionist. A Life of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky . Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 2006, ISBN 978-0-300-12154-4 , pp. 48 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 21, 2011]).
personal data
SURNAME Motesiczky, Marie-Louise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-British expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1996
PLACE OF DEATH London