Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein

Margaret Stonborough -Wittgenstein (also Margaret ) ( born September 19, 1882 in Neuwaldegg, today the city of Vienna, † September 27, 1958 in Vienna) was the youngest daughter of steel magnate Karl Wittgenstein, sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein and building owner the house Wittgenstein in Vienna.

Life

Margaret Wittgenstein came as part of the Wittgenstein family from the assimilated ( and converted ) Jewish haute bourgeoisie of Vienna. The daughter of an authoritarian patriarch, who above all his sons massively suppressed, developed into a versatile, unconventional and impressive personality ( three of her brothers, however, died by suicide, and Ludwig, the most famous, often suffered from depression ). Margaret looked at mathematics, psychoanalysis, and Karl Kraus, also spent time working in a chemical laboratory in Zurich, drew from nature, led a salon and had great influence on the younger Louis. On January 7, 1905 Margaret Wittgenstein married the New York manufacturers Jerome Stonborough and moved with him in the same year to Berlin. In the same year was also given by the parents in order, Gustav Klimt's famous portrait of the 23 -year-olds ( after sale of family-owned since 1963 in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich). 1913, the couple bought the Villa Toscana Gmunden, 1923, the separation, in June 1938 committed suicide by Jerome in the Villa squad. 1926-28 was Margaret Stonborough -Wittgenstein build their ascetic cubist city palace in Vienna. The architect was Paul Engelmann, a student of Adolf Loos, however, with strong participation of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In 1940 she emigrated to the United States, returned after the Second World War back to Austria and received, after some effort, restituted to it by the Nazi system property seized substantially.