The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. Leaving Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938, she
spent the rest of her life in England. Her artistic career, which spans seventy years, began in the 1920s when she
visited Max Beckmann's master class in Frankfurt. Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in London and
Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky's oeuvre which comprises portraits, self-portraits, still-lifes,
landscapes and allegorical paintings.
Apart from several works in well-known public collections, including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ( Edinburgh ), Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam),
the Tate Gallery (London), the National Portrait Gallery (London), the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), the
Österreichische Galerie im Belvedere (Vienna) and numerous private collections, the main body of her work was
kept together by the artist.
The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. Leaving Vienna after the Anschluss in 1938, she
spent the rest of her life in England. Her artistic career, which spans seventy years, began in the 1920s when she
visited Max Beckmann's master class in Frankfurt. Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in London and
Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky's oeuvre which comprises portraits, self-portraits, still-lifes,
landscapes and allegorical paintings. 
Apart from several works in well-known public collections, including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ( Edinburgh ), Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam),
the Tate Gallery (London), the National Portrait Gallery (London), the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), the
Österreichische Galerie im Belvedere (Vienna) and numerous private collections, the main body of her work was
kept together by the artist.