Location:-Common House
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky is an accomplished expressionist artist whose works, mainly portraits, are held in public collections around the world including Tate, National Portrait Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Born into a wealthy Austrian family in 1906, she fled from Vienna in 1938 and eventually settled in Hampstead, associating with other well-known émigrés such as Canetti and Kokoschka. She died in 1996. There is currently an exhibition of her work in Burgh House, Hampstead, which is well worth a visit. She is referred to in Kathy Henderson’s book My Disappearing Uncle, which was the subject of a Library Evening talk last November.
Ines Schlenker is a professional art historian who lives locally and has made a particular study of this artist. Her talk will be in English. It will take about 45 minutes and there will be time for questions afterwards.
For further information contact Isobel Schroeder (isobel.allen175@gmail.com; 07876 125073) or Peter Dean (deanpeterh@gmail.com; 07850 583576).
