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Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky

1906–1996

Old Woman, Amersham 1942
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Biography

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (24 October 1906 – 10 June 1996) was an Austrian-born British painter. She lived in Britain from 1939 onwards, and became a naturalised subject in 1948.

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Artworks

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  • View from the Window, Vienna

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1925
    On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

  • Still Life with Sheep

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1938
    On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio

  • From Night into Day

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1975

  • Portrait of a Russian Student

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1927

  • People on a Train

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    Late 1920s

  • Model, Vienna

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1930

  • Old Woman, Amersham

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1942

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  • Tate Etc

    In the Archive: Studio Lives

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Sketches, letters, etc.

  • Letter to Elias Canetti

    Recipient: Elias Canetti
    20 August [1946]
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  • Photograph of Elias Canetti sitting in front of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s painting ‘At the Dressmaker’, 6 Chesterford Gardens, London

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    July 1983
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  • Sketchbook 92

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    1920s–1990s
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  • Sketch titled ‘Man with spectacles and pointed hat’

    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    date not known
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