holds a prominent role in "Debrett's Texas Peerage." “I can’t believe that anyone who ever met Princess von Fürstenberg could forget her. “It was a beautiful, elegant and impressively spacious apartment,” he said.He was equally impressed by Titi. For the genealogy to be easier to consult, the male successors alone are listed, and they are accompanied with noteworthy information where necessary.

“It’s remarkable that we’ve had it this long.”Molly Glentzer, a staff arts critic since 1998, writes mostly about dance and visual arts but can go anywhere a good story leads. Such an event would be easy to imagine at, say, the Menil Collection, given its range, including a Fauvist landscape by André Derain, one of Mark Rothko’s early “multiform” canvases, a curvacious black granite sculpture by Jean Arp, an abstract wonder by Jean Dubuffet, a Max Ernst canvas featuring one of his signature swimming figures, a still life of roses by Pierre-August Renoir and a landscape by Diego Rivera.The list goes on, impressively, in alphabetical order more than estimated value: Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Georges Braque, Jim Dine, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Lucio Fontana, Ellsworth Kelly, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Kline, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, David Smith, Chaïm Soutine, Nicolas de Staël, George Rickey, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.James Clifton, the director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, knew and enjoyed working with the lively Titi. Vis profiler af personer, der hedder Eliza Fürstenberg. Princess "Titi" von Furstenburg, an heiress of Houston’s Blaffer family.Photo: Courtesy of Christie's / © 2019 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkMark Rothko's "No. (m.) At the beginning of the 19th century, the House of Schwarzenberg was divided into two princely-titled lines (The two branches have now been re-united under the current head of the family, The three last Princes of the primogeniture: Adolf (l.), Johann II. Die Altstadt von Fürstenberg ist eine Insel, die durch die Havel, Havelseitenarme, 3 Seen und mehreren Havelbächen eingegrenzt ist. In what amounted to a Texas royal wedding, she married the slightly older wildcatter Robert Lee Blaffer, who was about to co-found the Humble Oil and Refining Co. (later Exxon).While the men of the burgeoning oil-and-gas industry amassed new fortunes, their worldly, civic-minded and culture-hungry wives and daughters poured energy into building institutions. Museum benefactor.7/18/1953 - Robert L. Blaffer, Houston Oilman. She was a smart, funny force of nature on the foundation’s board (eventually merging her own foundation there) and a wise personal collector, he said. Joseph Wenzel Johann Nepomuk was the first son of the first prince. Diane Von Furstenberg, now fashion royalty, met Prince Egon von Fürstenberg at a birthday party in Geneva, when she was 18. Or even why the best of Titi’s collection — the works being auctioned — didn’t go to a museum, in Houston or elsewhere.“We’ve donated an awful lot over the years,” Joe Hudson said, speaking of the entire Blaffer legacy. The family stems from the Lords of Seinsheim, who had established themselves in Franconia during the Middle Ages. Hunting scene with the Princely family in front of Michael II. Sometimes the name is The county was partitioned in 1284 between itself and the lower county of In 1664, Count Hermann Egon of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg and his brothers, the bishops In 1744, various Fürstenberg territories were reunified to the Principality of The princely family is still today residing at Donaueschingen, Heiligenberg and Weitra. Parret bor i New York, hvor prinsen arbehder for FN som højkommissær for menneskerettigheder, mens Sarah arbejder som humanitær aktivist. "Lee Hudson poses for a portrait in front of a barn at his Hudson Ranch property in Napa, CA, Wednesday, January 29, 2014.The late Sarah Campbell Blaffen of Houston, left, who was known as the "Queen Mother of Texas.

Alexandra er mor til til unge socialite og modedesigner, Prinsesse Talita Natasha von Fürstenberg. She established a memorial collection in honor of her deceased husband in 1947, giving 25 paintings over the course of 17 years that dated from the late-medieval period to the late-19th century, including masterpieces by Canaletto, Cézanne and Vuillard.Her children gave, too. 12 (Mauve Intersection)," painted in 1949, realized $5.4 million Monday, well above its estimated price of $3 million.Photo: Courtesy of Christie's / Estate of H.S.H. 16/No. Their shared ancestor was Prosper Ferdinand, Count Fürstenberg, who had been killed at Landau in 1704. on the tower of Schwarzenberg Castle)