Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

They had donated many of the artworks in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, in their palatial salon opposite the opera, Hugo von Hofmannsthal had read his first poems.

Marie-Louise's grandmother Anna von Lieben (née Todesco), was one of Sigmund Freud's patients in the 1890s, referred to under the pseudonym of ‘Cäcilie M’.

Her large circle of friends also included the sculptor Marie Duras, the art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich and the artist Milein Cosman.

In London they renewed their acquaintance with Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) and met the writer Elias Canetti (1905–94) with whom Marie-Louise was to develop a relationship that lasted for more than thirty years, and a correspondence that continued until 1992.

After the War she rented a flat in London while her mother stayed in Amersham until 1960, when they moved into a large house at 6 Chesterford Gardens in Hampstead that was to be their home for the rest of their lives.

This prompted what was in many respects her most remarkable body of work: a series of unflinching portraits of her mother, expressive of the ravages of age but also the deep emotional bond between the two women.

The first success in her native country came in 1966 when the Wiener Secession staged a large solo exhibition which subsequently travelled to Linz, Bremen and Munich.

At her death in 1996, the collection, along with the bulk of her estate, passed to the Trust set up in 1992 for the preservation and promotion of her work, support of the arts and other charitable objects.

[5] A centenary exhibition was organised in 2006-07, starting at Tate Liverpool and travelling to Frankfurt, Vienna and Passau, then to Southampton Art Gallery in Britain.

She is represented in local, regional, university and national museums in Britain, the Republic of Ireland, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.