#siecle

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA Liberation di Oggi lunedì, 02 settembre 2024

[yesterdaysprint]

Enfin Seule! (Finally Alone) by Jean-Louis Forain in Le Courrier Français, ca. 1890

[theartisthawkins]

Wonderful Addition to the #studio #library #art #nouveau #fin #de #siecle 🎨🙏 #artist #abstract www.theartisthawkins.art (at The Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnJ3E29r8xT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[neshimah]

Tous ensemble, main dans la main, prions le seigneur comme un seul peuple : le peuple de Dieu. 🙏

[vintagehomecollection]

Bettye Jordan Young, B. Jordan Young, Inc., Hollywood, California

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[vintagegeekculture]

Sascha Schneider, 1905.

[simming-in-the-rain]

Les Nouveaux Riches

Gregory and Bertha Landgraab, 1890

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[darkelfchicksick]

lost klimt portrait shows up in vienna :0

Fräulein Lieser ("Miss Lieser") has never been on public display since its creation in 1917 - you are now looking at the painting in color for (probably) the first time ever.

The current owner inherited the painting in 2022 - it originally came to be in the possession of their predecessors in the 1960s, but it is unclear how the painting came to be in the first buyer's possession. There is no information available about whether or not the painting had to be relinquished, was confiscated or sold under distress by the Lieser family after 1938. However, since the potential original owners were both forcibly dispossessed in 1938, documentation of the dispossession for this particular may have been lost.

On April 28th, the painting will be put up for auction at im Kinsky in Vienna, with the price being projected to be between 30 to 50 million euro. The legally unclear situation of whether or not the painting is Nazi-looted art is why the auction was commissioned by both the recent inheritor and the legal successors of Adolf Lieser and his sister-in-law Henriette Amelie "Lilly" Lieser, in accordance with the Washington Principles.

In the past, the depicted young woman was identified as Adolf's daughter Constance Margarethe Lieser, who would have been 18 years old during Klimt's creation of the painting. However, new research presented by the auction house im Kinsky has brought up doubts as to who the depicted "Miss Lieser" actually is. Adolf's sister-in-law Lilly Lieser, who had married and later divorced Adolf's brother Julius, was a patron of the arts and might have commissioned a painting of either of her daughters, Helene and Annie Lieser. Klimt himself never identified the commissioning customer beyond "Lieser" and died in 1918, before the painting was finished.

Lilly Lieser was a central patron of art and music in fin de siécle Vienna. She is especially well-known for her financial support of Arnold Schöneberg and was an avid art collector. For years, her best friend was Alma Mahler-Werfel. Both Adolf and Lilly Lieser were dispossessed in 1938 and later deported to Riga and/or Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Details to Margarethe's life aren't readily available, she died in London in 1943 or 44. Helene Lieser, who had been the first woman in Austria to get a PhD in political sciences, fled Austria in 1938 and ended up in Geneva. After the war, she lived in Paris, working for UNESCO, OEEC and the International Economic Association. She died from cancer in 1962 in Vienna. Annie Lieser, who was a celebrated interpretative dancer, married Austrian artist Hans Sidonius Becker. In 1938, her and their son Johann managed to flee to the US. Hans Becker was active in the Austrian resistance movement and annulled their marriage in 1941 to marry another woman. Annie probably never went back to Austria but kept contact with several other Austrian emigrants in California, among them Alma Mahler-Werfel and Luzie Korngold. She died in Los Angeles in 1972.

The painting will be shown to the public from April 10th at im Kinsky in Vienna as well as during a projected world tour to Asia, Europe and the USA.

Sources:

Olga Kronsteiner, DER STANDARD 25.01.2024

Wikipedia: Henriette Amalie Lieser, Helene Lieser, Hans Sidonius Becker

Alexandra Matzner, ART IN WORDS 25.01.2024

Valerie Gaber, im Kinsky 25.01.2024

Alexandra Löw, BiografiA Annie Becker

Anna Amilar, BiografiA Henriette Amelie Lieser, Website

Photograph of Bildnis Fräulein Lieser © Auktionshaus im Kinsky GmbH, Vienna

[geritsel]

Lionello Balestrieri - Beethoven, Die Kreuzer Sonata. Preliminary studies, the final painting (that brought him fame and fortune) and the artist in his studio, all around 1900.

[nocnitsa]

‘Fairy tales from folk lore’ by Hershel Williams; illustrated by M.H. Squire. Published 1908 by Moffat, Yard & Company, New York.

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[oldbooklover]

[determinate-negation]

the culture of narcissism being part of the dimes square reading list is kind of funny at this current juncture since they seem to have taken it as a how to manual

[les-portes-du-sud]

Le Palais du Bey, l’un des rares monuments ottomans de la ville, situé au quartier de Sidi El-Houari.

Il a été construit par Mohamed Ben Othman, dit El-Kébir, après avoir victorieusement triomphé des Espagnols en 1792. Dès lors il en fit sa résidence ainsi que le siège de son administration.

[vintagegeekculture]

Illustrations of life in the year 2000, by Jean Marc Cote, in 1899. 

[toutplacid]

Pont Royal depuis port du Louvre, Paris 1er — fusain, carnet nº 142, 3 juin 2024.