Parlaghy, Wilma von: Porträt Auguste Bötzow

Unknown artist

A knee piece of an elderly lady sitting on a wooden chair with a high backrest, front, the arms lying on the backrests, a cross on the chest. In the right, a Lorgnon rests, which is secured with a chain around his neck. The depicted are Auguste Bötzow, born. Heller (1814-1905), the then 80-year-old widow of the Berlin landowner, Wröhherrn and city councilor Julius (I) Bötzow (1811-1873) from the well-known Berlin citizen and landowner family. Both of the older son Julius (II) Bötzow (1839-1914) was the founder of Bötzow’s largest private beer brewery in Berlin. Both daughter Elise (born 1838) was married to the Berlin councilor Ferdinand Ahrends (1815-1869), whose daughter Elise Ahrends in turn with Berlin banker Theodor Fuhrmann (1848-1921). Bad restorative condition. donation from Felicitas and Heinz Fuhrmann to the Berlin Museum in 1973. Referred to re. u. "V. Parliaghy/1894’. Literature: Cat. Berlin Museum. Märkisches Museum. Painting I, 1. With a critical catalog of the paintings of the Berlin Museum. Bearb. by Sabine Beneke and Sybille Gramlich. Berlin 1994, pp. 47, 194 m. Fig. - Bötzow. In: Genealogical Handbook of Civil Families. Bd. 5. Berlin 1897, pp. 79-84, here p. 83.