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Daniela Von Bülow
Baroness Daniela von Bülow (12 October 1860 – 28 July 1940), nicknamed Loulou or Lusch , was a German pianist and costume designer. Biography Born as Daniela Senta von Bülow Liszt on 12 October 1860 in Berlin, Germany, Daniela von Bülow was the first daughter of the conductor and pianist Hans von Bülow, and Cosima Liszt. She was named after Cosima's brother, Daniel Liszt, who “had tragically died of consumption in1859”. She was the step-daughter of Richard Wagner , German composer, and the granddaughter of Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher. She was a “fine pianist” in her own right, who had been trained primarily by her mother but also coached by Wagner. After her parents' divorce in 1870, she stayed with her mother Cosima, who married Wagner in the same year. Since then she lived first in Tribschen, then in Bayreuth. In the 1880s she accompanied Wagner to Italy, where she met Henry Thode, an art historian, poet and translator who was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagner Family 1881
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the '' Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle '' Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (''The Ring of the Nibelung''). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Städel
The Städel, officially the ''Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie'', is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The museum is located at the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints. It has around of display and a library of 115,000 books. In 2012, the Städel was honoured as by the German art critics association AICA. In the same year the museum recorded the highest attendance figures in its history, of 447,395 visitors. In 2020 the museum had 318,732 visitors, down 45 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ranked 71st on the list of most-visited art museums in 2020. History 19th century The Städel was founded in 1817, and is one of the oldest museums in Frankfurt. The founding followed a bequest by the Frankfurt banker and art patron Johann Friedr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
