DOI Heft:
Nr. 204 (February, 1914)
DOI Artikel:Hunter, George Leland: A woman painter of great men
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43454#0381
A Woman Painter of Great Men
THE EMPEROR OF
GERMANY
BY PRINCESS
LWOFF-PARLAGHY
THE CROWN PRINCE OF
GERMANY
BY PRINCESS
LWOFF-PARLAGITY
A WOMAN PAINTER OF GREAT
MEN
BY GEORGE LELAND HUNTER
Eminent among painters of portraits
of the world’s great men is the Princess Lwoff-
Parlaghy, Hungarian by birth, cosmopolitan by
residence, and now domiciled in New York.
Among Americans who have sat to her are Joseph
H. Choate, Horace Porter,. Whitelaw Reid,
Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin F. Tracy, Chauncey
Depew, James B. Haggin, Alton B. Parker, Nikola
Tesla, Thomas Edison, Ogden Mills, Edwin Mark-
ham, George Dewey, August Belmont, Myron F.
Herrick, William H. Bliss, Henry Phipps. Among
Europeans she has painted are the German
Emperor (six times), the German Crown Prince,
Bismarck (three times), the King of Saxony, the
King of Wurtemburg, the King of Servia, the
Grand Duke of Baden, the Prince of Monaco,
Prince Ernst Ghika of Roumania, Prince Asghar
Ali of Persia, Count von Caprivi, General von
Arnim, Kuno Fischer, the German philosopher,
Count von Taaffe of Austria, Count von Schoen-
born, of Austria, German Minister of Finance von
Miquel, Count Eulenburg, Master of Ceremony
and Obeffii of marshal to the Emperor of Germany;
Count Cassini, of Russia; Archbishop von Sta-
blewsky, of Poland; the Marchese di Bianchi, of
Italy; the Austrian poet, Bauernfeld; the German
poet, Ernst von Wildenbruch: Baron von Stumm,
the poet and playwright; Hermann Sudermann;
President Koch, of the Berlin Reichsbank; Presi-
dent von Hahn, of the Vienna Laenderbank;
President Loesner, of the Hamburg-American
Line.
For her portraits of the German Kaiser, the
Princess received the Great Gold State Medal of
Germany, and was appointed a member of the
jury, the only woman ever so honoured. For her
portrait of the King of Wurtemburg she received
the Great Gold Medal of Art and Science. Her
portrait of General Field-Marshal Count von
Moltke was bought by the German Kaiser for
the Great General Staff in Berlin, and a second
portrait of him was presented by the Great Gen-
eral Staff to General Field-Marshal Count von
Waldersee. For her portrait of the Austro-Hun-
garian Ambassador at Berlin, His Excellency von
Szoegyenyi-Marich, she was made an officer of
the French Academy. Among museums in which
hang portraits painted by her are those of Dres-
cxcv
THE EMPEROR OF
GERMANY
BY PRINCESS
LWOFF-PARLAGHY
THE CROWN PRINCE OF
GERMANY
BY PRINCESS
LWOFF-PARLAGITY
A WOMAN PAINTER OF GREAT
MEN
BY GEORGE LELAND HUNTER
Eminent among painters of portraits
of the world’s great men is the Princess Lwoff-
Parlaghy, Hungarian by birth, cosmopolitan by
residence, and now domiciled in New York.
Among Americans who have sat to her are Joseph
H. Choate, Horace Porter,. Whitelaw Reid,
Andrew Carnegie, Benjamin F. Tracy, Chauncey
Depew, James B. Haggin, Alton B. Parker, Nikola
Tesla, Thomas Edison, Ogden Mills, Edwin Mark-
ham, George Dewey, August Belmont, Myron F.
Herrick, William H. Bliss, Henry Phipps. Among
Europeans she has painted are the German
Emperor (six times), the German Crown Prince,
Bismarck (three times), the King of Saxony, the
King of Wurtemburg, the King of Servia, the
Grand Duke of Baden, the Prince of Monaco,
Prince Ernst Ghika of Roumania, Prince Asghar
Ali of Persia, Count von Caprivi, General von
Arnim, Kuno Fischer, the German philosopher,
Count von Taaffe of Austria, Count von Schoen-
born, of Austria, German Minister of Finance von
Miquel, Count Eulenburg, Master of Ceremony
and Obeffii of marshal to the Emperor of Germany;
Count Cassini, of Russia; Archbishop von Sta-
blewsky, of Poland; the Marchese di Bianchi, of
Italy; the Austrian poet, Bauernfeld; the German
poet, Ernst von Wildenbruch: Baron von Stumm,
the poet and playwright; Hermann Sudermann;
President Koch, of the Berlin Reichsbank; Presi-
dent von Hahn, of the Vienna Laenderbank;
President Loesner, of the Hamburg-American
Line.
For her portraits of the German Kaiser, the
Princess received the Great Gold State Medal of
Germany, and was appointed a member of the
jury, the only woman ever so honoured. For her
portrait of the King of Wurtemburg she received
the Great Gold Medal of Art and Science. Her
portrait of General Field-Marshal Count von
Moltke was bought by the German Kaiser for
the Great General Staff in Berlin, and a second
portrait of him was presented by the Great Gen-
eral Staff to General Field-Marshal Count von
Waldersee. For her portrait of the Austro-Hun-
garian Ambassador at Berlin, His Excellency von
Szoegyenyi-Marich, she was made an officer of
the French Academy. Among museums in which
hang portraits painted by her are those of Dres-
cxcv