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Der Ruhm und sein Preis

Die Malerfürstin Vilma Parlaghy
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Glamour, money, intrigue and scandal defined the life of Hungarian portrait painter Vilma Parlaghy (1863-1924), who owed her reputation to the rejection of her works by the major Berlin Art Expositions and to a gold medal she received from Kaiser Wilhelm II. Emperors, kings, ministers, and industrial magnates posed for her, and marriage to a Russian aristocrat earned her the appellation "Painter Princess". After her divorce, she continued her career in America, where she painted portraits of steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie, President Theodore Roosevelt, and the ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla. She became a millionaire but lost everything in the end. She died in New York at the age of 60, and is largely forgotten today – not least because she took her greatest work of art, her own person, with her to the grave.

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  • Portraits of international high society
  • Art and society around 1900

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Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, museum director in Flensburg until 2009, honorary professor at the University of Kiel

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    Frontmatter

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    Inhalt

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    Prolog

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    Herkunft und Jugend in Budapest 1863–1880

    8
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    Vorbild Franz von Lenbach – Ausbildung in München 1880–1885

    10
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    Der alte Revolutionär – das Porträt Lajos Kossuth 1885

    21
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    Im Glanz der Donaumonarchie 1886

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    Eintritt in das Gesellschaftsleben der Hauptstadt des Deutschen Kaiserreiches 1887–1889

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    Der verdiente „Kulturkämpfer“ – das Porträt Ludwig Windthorst 1890

    38
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    Der greise Feldmarschall – der Skandal um das Porträt Helmuth von Moltke 1891

    46
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    Der Alte vom Sachsenwald – Das Porträt Otto von Bismarck 1892

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    Aufenthalt in Hamburg – im Schatten von Max Liebermann 1892

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    „Ausgestellt auf Befehl der Majestät des Kaisers“ – Der Skandal um das Porträt Wilhelm II. 1893

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    Gesellschaftliche und mediale Netzwerke

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    Der Makel der Goldmedaille

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    Die Privatausstellung Unter den Linden 1895 und ihre Folgen

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    Die Ehescheidung 1895

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    Auf Reisen in Paris, Baden-Baden, Stuttgart und Frankfurt 1895–1896

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    Atelier und Salon Unter den Linden 12

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    Erster Aufenthalt in Amerika 1896

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    Aufenthalte in London, Leipzig, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Baden-Baden 1897–1898

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    Gesellschaftliches Engagement und Vorkämpferin gegen die Vivisektion 1897–1903

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    Die Heirat mit dem russischen Fürsten Georgy Lwoff und die Hochzeitsreise nach Amerika 1899

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    Erfolgreiche Porträtmalerin in Deutschland und Europa 1900–1903

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    Die zweite Ehescheidung 1903

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    Aufbruch in die Neue Welt, der Empfang der Malerfürstin in Amerika 1908

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    Am Ziel der Träume – Atelier und Suite in New York im Luxushotel The Plaza 1909

    151
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    Der Plan einer „Hall of Fame“ der 25 bedeutendsten Amerikaner

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    Im Kreis der „High Society“ – Tycoone, Philanthropen, Professoren, Erfinder und Kriegshelden

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    Der tiefe Fall

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    Der Gönner Ludwig Nissen und ein letzter Erfolg: Das „Blue Portrait“ des Erfinders Nikola Tesla

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    Das einsame Ende 1924

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    Literaturverzeichnis

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    Register

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    Bildnachweis und Bildrechte

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
June 16, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783422802759
Paperback published on:
June 16, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783422802742
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
196
Illustrations:
12
Coloured Illustrations:
58
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783422802759
eBook ISBN: 9783422802759
Paperback ISBN: 9783422802742
Keywords for this book
Historismus; Malerin; Deutschland; USA; Blue Portrait; Prinzessin Lwoff-Parlaghy; Admiral George Dewey; Helmuth von Moltke; John Burroughs; Kaiser Wilhelm II; Andrew Carnegie; Porträtmalerei; Nikola Tesla; Porträtmalerin; Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy; Ludwig Nissen; Husum
Audience(s) for this book
Kunstwissenschaftler/-innen, Kulturwissenschaftler/-innen
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