Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff - Parlaghy ( born April 15, 1863 in Hajdúdorog in Hajdú Hungary, † August 28 1923 in New York City ) was a Hungarian- American portrait painter.
Life
Elizabeth Vilma of Parlaghy - Brachfeld received her education in picturesque Budapest and then in Munich by Franz Quaglio dJ and Wilhelm Dürr which they trained in the style of Franz Spranger. First sensation excited her in 1890, when a portrait of her mother at an exhibition in Berlin was shown. There you Moltke - Portrait 1891 was controversial, but she stood there already in the favor of the German emperor Wilhelm II also at the Paris Salon was recognized and awarded 1892-1894.
From 1896 to 1899 she held the first time in New York City. Back in Europe, she married in Prague the Russian nobleman Lwoff and lived with him in his possession at the Tegernsee, but was divorced after a short time. She called from now on "Princess Lwoff - Parlaghy ". Back in the U.S. she painted Admiral George Dewey, and found so that access to wealthy U.S. clients. In Europe, she was married to Peter Nor's and in 1905 with his daughter Vilma of Nor. While the mother was staying in Berlin and Nice, the daughter grew up in London. Final in the U.S. went Lwoff - Parlaghy in 1908. In New York she lived befitting with great staff costs in various luxury hotels like the Plaza Hotel.
Tesla blue portrait 1913
In 1913, Nikola Tesla could be of Lwoff - Parlaghy portray in oil paints, which he specially installed bulbs with blue light filter in the studio. The image was known under the name Blue Portrait and 1913 and 1916 presented in New York at exhibitions. But there were no buyers and the painting remained the property of the artist. After the auction of the estate of the artist, it was considered lost until it was rediscovered in the fundus of Husum North Sea Museum - Nissenhaus early 2000s. Through a donation from the estate of Ludwig Husumers Nissen, who died in 1924 as a diamond dealer in Brooklyn, some pictures Lwoff - Parlaghys had come to Husum, including a self-portrait and a portrait Nissen.
Portraits of famous people
- August Belmont Jr., Otto Bismarck, John Burroughs, Leo von Caprivi, Andrew Carnegie, William Conant Church, Thomas Alva Edison, Edward VII, Daniel Chester French, Myron T. Herrick, Friedrich Hirth, Seth Low, Hudson Maxim, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Ludwig Nissen, Alton B. Parker, Henry Phipps, Ernst Günther of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Augustenburg, Daniel E. Sickles, Charles Dwight Sigsbee, Benjamin F. Tracy