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Lydia Welti-Escher. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Lydia Welti-Escher, (née Lydia Escher, 10 July 1858 in Zürich-Enge – 12 December 1891 in Genève-Champel) was a Swiss patron of the arts and the daughter of Augusta Escher-Uebel (1838–1864) and Alfred Escher.
Portrait of Lydia Welti-Escher. Karl Stauffer-Bern 1886. Kunsthaus Zürich. Zurich, Switzerland. Lydia Escher (1858-1891), daughter of the important politician and entrepreneur Alfred Escher,...
Lydia Welti Escher, (née Lydia Escher, 10 July 1858 in Zürich-Enge – 12 December 1891 in Genève-Champel) was a Swiss patron of the arts. Lydia Escher was one of the richest women in Switzerland in the 19th century, a patron of the arts who most notably established the Gottfried Keller Foundation .
Lydia Welti-Escher. primary name:Welti-Escher, Lydia. Details. individual; Swiss; Male. Life dates. -1891. Biography. Daughter of the 'Eisenbahnkönig' ('king of railwys') Alfred Escher and wife of the son of the Bundesrat Emil Welti; embarked on a passionate affair with the painter and etcher Stauffer-Bern (q.v.).
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Description Stauffer visited his schoolmate Emil Welti and Welti's wife Lydia in autumn 1885 (cf. inv. 2538). In several letters the topic of costume and hairstyle was discussed with regard to the portrait to be painted in July 1886; Lydia suggested 'Roth silk plush or velvet with hat
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