Join us for conversation and a light coffee service in the Founders Room to celebrate the Wittgenstein Vitrine, one of the most significant recent acquisitions to the DMA’s collection to date. Then enjoy a lecture featuring Margaret Stonborough, a direct descendant of Karl Wittgenstein, who remembers summers spent in the family villa in Austria with her grandmother, Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, surrounded by family, friends, and the beautiful household objects created by the Wiener Werkstätte. Stonborough has recently inherited boxes of the family's private papers, which she will show while describing her own experience of this extraordinary family.
Karl Wittgenstein, the original purchaser of the vitrine in 1908 and father of Margaret Stonborough- Wittgenstein, was the patriarch of an immensely gifted and larger-than-life family that rose to prominence in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First World War. He and his family were patrons of Gustav Klimt and Carl Otto Czeschka, whose silver vitrine was the most extravagant and opulent object that the Wiener Werkstätte ever made.
A reservation is required and space is limited.
Please reply to Maegan Hoffmann by Thursday, June 4, at mhoffmann@DMA.org or 214-922-1208.
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