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Guglielmo Legler
Wilhelm Legler also Guglielmo Legler (3 April 1875 – 28 April 1951) was a painter from Pisino, Istria. Biography Wilhelm Legler (also ''Guglielmo'') was born in Pisino, Istria, to Wilhelm Legler, an engineer, and Adele Legler-Köhler (Koehler). On 4 September 1900 he married Margarethe (Greta) Julie Schindler (1881-1942) in Bad Goisern, Austria. After their marriage they moved to Stuttgart. She was the daughter of Emil Jakob Schindler (though there are questions surrounding her paternity) and the sister of Alma Mahler. After Schindler's death, his wife, and Greta's mother, married Carl Moll (with whom she had been previously accused of having an affair). Moll then married Greta to Legler, one of his pupils. It has been also reported that Greta was forced to marry Legler by her mother. The marriage produced a child, Wilhelm (Willy) Carl Emil Legler (1902-1960), an architect. After a suicide attempt in December 1911, Margarethe was institutionalized for most of the rest of her li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisino
Pazin (, ) is a town in western Croatia, the administrative seat of Istria County. It is known for the medieval Pazin Castle, the former residence of the Istrian margraves. Geography The town had a population of 8,638 in 2011, of which 4,386 lived in the urban settlement. In 1991 it was made the capital of the county for its location in the geographical centre of the Istrian peninsula and in order to boost the development of its interior territories. Climate Since records began in 1961, the highest temperature recorded at the local weather station at an elevation of was , on 3 August 2017. The coldest temperature was , on 8 January 1985. History Pazin was built in an area rich in history and inhabited since ancient times. The burg surrounding the castle was inhabited since prehistory. Some of the surrounding rural settlements, such as Glavizza, Beram, which features a necropolis dating from the 7th to 5th century BC, and the '' castellieri'' of Bertossi, likewise inhabited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linz
Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Republic. As of 1 January 2024, the city has a population of 212,538. It is the seventh-largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. History Linz originated as a Roman Empire, Roman fort named ''Lentia'', established in the first century. The name reflects its location at a bend in the Danube (Celtic languages, Celtic root ''lentos'' = "bendable"). This strategic position on the river made it the first Roman fort in the Noricum region, protecting a vital transportation route. The name "Linz" in its present form was first documented in 799. Linz was mentioned as a fortified city in 1236 and was granted city rights in 1324. Johannes Kepler spent several years of his life in the city teaching m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Austrian Painters
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
