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Mariette Lydis
Szene aus der Operette "Aventures du roi pausole"

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Mariette Lydis (Vienna 1887 - Buenos Aires 1970) is an Austrian painter and illustrator who was successful in Paris in the 1930s, in Montparnasse and then in Argentina, where she emigrated in 1940. Mariette Lydis was born on 24 August in Vienna, Austria 1887. From 1919 to 1922 she signed her works with the initials MPK for Marietta Pachoffer Karñy, a name derived from her first marriage in 1910 to Julius Koloman Pachoffer-Karñy, who died on 22 April 1922. Subsequently she lived in different cities around Europe, among others: Athens and Florence. She moved to France from 1926 to 1939, during these years she exhibited and became a member of the Salon d'Automne. She befriended Count Giuseppe Govone, the art publisher, in 1928 and married him on 1 August 1934, for whom she illustrated the books of many authors and cultivated a great friendship with Henry de Montherlant, which came about through the publication of a first in 1938 monograph by the author of Les Jeunes Filles. Fearing the German invasion, she travelled to England and then to Buenos Aires in July 1940, where she stayed and published published her latest paintings and drawings in Mariette Lydis with a preface by Henry from Montherlant in 1949. A donation to the Buenos Aires Museum (Museo Eduardo Sivori) in 1969 ensured his posterity as an Argentine artist. She died on 26 April 1970 and was buried in the cemetery of the Recoleta district in Buenos Aires. Source: Artsper
  • Creator:
    Mariette Lydis (1887 - 1970, Austrian)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7.88 in (20 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Wien, AT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1782211410282
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