Francesca von Habsburg

Francesca Habsburg-Lothringen ( born June 7, 1958 in Lausanne) is an Austrian art expert and collector. It is with Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, the head of the House of Habsburg married.

Biography

She was born as Francesca Anne Dolores Baroness Thyssen- Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva and is the elder daughter of Hans Heinrich Thyssen- Bornemisza de Kászon from his marriage to his 1956 geheirateten third wife, a native of New Zealand British model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell -Walter (* 1932). From the same marriage her brother Lorne comes (* 1963). Her parents divorced in 1965.

She grew up in Switzerland in Le Rosey. At the age of eighteen she attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the training was on but after two years. After leaving school she worked as an actress, singer and model. Your lifestyle as Partygängerin in London in the 1980s enjoyed a reputation as an It Girl. After St. Martin's College, she lived in the next ten years in England, New York and Los Angeles before curator of the art collection of her father was in Lugano.

During the war in Croatia Francesca visited the country to protect heritage and works of art. It was involved in the restoration of churches and paintings that had been destroyed during the fighting.

Francesca is now a leading figure in the world of art business and regularly takes part in the big Biennale and has built up its own art collection with over 400 works of contemporary video and digital technology. Your foundation has an exhibition area in a historical palace on the Himmelpfortgasse 13 in Vienna I. It shows there twice a year works from the collection in thematic exhibitions. The Foundation also organizes exhibitions of her collection in the world.

On 31 January 1993 she married in Mariazell Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, of which they lived separately for 2003. Together they have three children.