The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. She and her mother Henriette left immediately after the Anschluss with Germany on 12 March 1938, travelling first to Holland and then to England at the beginning of 1939.

Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in Liverpool, London, New York and Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky’s oeuvre which comprises portraits, self-portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and allegorical paintings. During her lifetime, the main body of her work was kept together by the artist then passed to the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust (1997-2025). Much of that work is now distributed among public collections in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.