Portrait of Eugenia Mada Primavesi Klimt,1913 (in his last studio Klimt Villa) Oil on canvas140x 84 cm, Privately owned Eugenia Mada Primavesi (1903-2000) Bborn Butschek, was married with Otto Primavesi a banker and industrialist in Olmütz and one of the main backers of the Wiener Werkstätte. Otto Primavesi had allready commisioned Josef Hoffman to modernize his bankhouse in Olmütz, his privat villa and a cottage in Winkelsdorf before he married Eugenia Primavesi a viennese actress. She had big influence over the art patronage of her husband who was buisnessmanager of the Wiener Werkstätten from 1915 to 1925. Her husband commisioned a portrait of his wife as well as from his daughter from Klimt. Otto Primavesi died in February 1926, in Mai the Bankhouse in Olmütz went bankrupt.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:12:30 +0000
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