Daniela von Bülow

Baroness Daniela von Bülow (12 October 1860 – 28 July 1940), nicknamed Loulou or Lusch , was a German pianist and costume designer.

She was named after Cosima's brother, Daniel Liszt, who “had tragically died of consumption in 1859”.

In the 1880s she accompanied Wagner to Italy, where she met Henry Thode, an art historian, poet and translator who was the director of Stadelsches Institut, Frankfurt.

[6] She married Henry Thode on 3 July 1886 and lived with him until her return to Bayreuth in 1914 after their divorce.

[7] She worked as a costume designer at the Bayreuth Festival, an annual musical event.

Richard Wagner with his family and family friends Heinrich von Stein (left) and Paul von Joukowsky (right) in front of Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth. Daniela von Bülow is in the center, standing. Photograph dated August 23, 1881