Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

Henriette von Motesiczky with Dog and Flowers, oil on canvas, 1967,
 © The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, London

New Walk Museum and Gallery, Leicester

Austrian Expressionist artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996) was a pupil of Max Beckmann, and arrived in England as an émigré artist in the 1930s, settling in Hampstead.

This special gift includes four oil paintings, drawings, a sketchbook and a tender portrait of the artist’s mother Henriette, from 1967.