The Archive Gallery at Tate Britain has been renamed in perpetuity as the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery, in recognition of the largest gift from a private trust to Tate Archives.<\/p>\n
The newly named Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery at Tate Britain will open on 7 October with a unique display of over 350 items, drawing on the personal papers of \u00e9migr\u00e9 painter, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996), as well as related Tate Archive collections and paintings, generously supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The display is part of the regular six-monthly changing programme in the Archive Gallery.<\/p>\n
Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, on her mother\u2019s side, Motesiczky left school in 1920, and subsequently attended art classes in The Hague, Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. In 1927\/8 she was invited by Max Beckmann to join his master class at the St\u00e4delschule in Frankfurt am Main. She and her mother Henriette left Vienna immediately after Hitler\u2019s annexation of Austria in March 1938. At the beginning of 1939 they made their way to England which became their home for the rest of their lives. Marie-Louise\u2019s brother Karl remained in Vienna; he was arrested in October 1942 for anti-Nazi resistance and sent to Auschwitz in February 1943, where he died of typhus four months later.<\/p>\n
Following her ambition \u201cIf you could only paint a single good picture in your lifetime, your life would be worthwhile\u201d, Motesiczky created over three hundred paintings, mainly portraits, self-portraits and still-lifes, in a career that spanned over seven decades. Many of these works now hang in major public galleries, including Tate, throughout the world.<\/p>\n
The new display marks 80 years since the artist\u2019s arrival in the UK and visualises the experience of exile, exploring its impact on Motesiczky\u2019s art. It brings to life Motesiczky\u2019s family background, their network of friendships and journey into exile. It also looks at the circle of fellow e?migre?s she moved in especially in Hampstead and her relationships with the two most important people in her life: the writer Elias Canetti (1905\u20131994) with whom she was emotionally involved for three decades, and her mother Henriette (1882-1978) who became Marie-Louise\u2019s most remarkable subject. After Marie-Louise\u2019s death her struggle to gain artistic recognition was taken over by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n
The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust has supported Tate Archives since 2012, when the personal papers of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky were presented to Tate. In addition to the major gift renaming the Archive Gallery and the associated display, the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust is supporting Tate Archive\u2019s \u00c9migr\u00e9 Art Archives project \u2013 a three-year cataloguing and digitisation project, comprising the professional papers of J.P. Hodin, the personal papers of David Mayor and his wider Viennese family, and the sketchbooks of Jankel Adler. This project also includes a public engagement programme of films, show and share sessions, and a symposium.<\/p>\n
Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain said, \u201cThis generous grant by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust is a fitting and lasting tribute to one among many \u00e9migr\u00e9 cultural figures who have enriched this country in inestimable ways. This and other grants by her Trust has helped to cement Tate Archive\u2019s reputation as a centre of excellence for the study of \u00e9migr\u00e9 artists and art writers particularly those who fled Europe before the Second World War, which now number over 50 such collections\u201d.<\/p>\n
Frances Carey, Chair of the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust said, \u201cTate has done Marie-Louise proud. It is so important for archival material of this kind to be properly looked after and made available in person and on line, Tate\u2019s facilities and expertise ensure that people everywhere can understand the trajectory of not just a single individual but a whole milieu, and a chapter in history which resonates to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n
For press information contact pressoffice(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)tate.org.uk<\/span> or call +44(0)020 7887 8730. High resolution press images can be downloaded from tate.org.uk\/press<\/a><\/p>\n NOTES TO EDITORS<\/p>\n The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Display<\/em> About Tate Archive Tate Archive is free to use. To consult our collections, researchers just need to register and make an appointment to visit the Reading Rooms at Tate Britain, open Monday to Friday (except the first Friday of each month) 11.00\u201317.00. reading.rooms(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)tate.org.uk<\/span> or call +44 0)20 7887 8838. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust<\/strong> Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in Liverpool, London, New York and Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky\u2019s 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. Much of that work is now distributed among public collections in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Holland and in one case, the United States.<\/p>\n The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust was created as a Trust by foundation document on the 28 October 1992, some four years before Marie-Louise died. It received charitable status on the 21 November 1996 and was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee with charitable status in 2011. The creation of the Trust was the vision of Marie-Louise to provide a vehicle after her death for the preservation and promotion of her work, and the charitable support of the arts and other objects. Two of the original Trustees, David Scrase and Sean Rainbird are still on the Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Archive Gallery at Tate Britain has been renamed in perpetuity as the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery, in recognition of the largest gift from a private trust to Tate Archives. The newly named Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery at Tate Britain will open on 7 October with a unique display of over 350 items, […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motesiczky.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOpen from 7 October 2019 \u2013 27 March 2020 in the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery, Lower Level, Tate Britain.
\nEntrance is free.<\/p>\n
\nTate Archive collects and makes accessible a wealth of material relating to the history of British art. Located at Tate Britain, the archive collections comprise materials such as letters, diaries, financial records, sketches, photographs, exhibition histories, audio-visual material and increasingly, born-digital material \u2013 all of which relate to artists, art practice, and art world figures and organisations.<\/p>\n
\nBefore you visit, you can search for materials of interest from the catalogued holdings by using the online catalogue (archive.tate.org.uk<\/a>), and you can browse a range of digitally available items on our website at tate.org.uk\/art\/archive\/collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. Leaving Vienna immediately after the Anschluss with Germany in 1938, she and her mother Henriette arrived in England in 1939 where they were to spend the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n