Tilla Durieux (née Ottilie Godeffroy - 1880-1971) born in Vienna to a chemist (Richard Godeffroy) and a Hungarian pianist (Adelheid Ottilie Augustine Hrdlicka), was an actress who spent most of her career in Germany, but waited out the Nazi years in Switzerland and Yugoslavia. Her Wikipedia entry is here.
Like Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, Durieux was the subject of a number of portraits by artists even though it was the age of photography. With one noteworthy exception, the images below were created by artists of German and Austrian background.
Gallery
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Photo of Tilla Durieux
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Tilla as Salome, by Max Slevogt - 1907
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By Oskar Kokoschka - 1910
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By Max Oppenheimer - 1912
Note the surprisingly similar feeling in the three paintings above done by three different artists.
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Tilla as Circe - by Franz von Stuck - c. 1912-13
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Tilla as Circe - by Franz von Stuck - c. 1912-13
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Tilla as Circe - pastel and pencil - by Franz von Stuck - c. 1912-13
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By Auguste Renoir - 1914
Here Tilla looks like most other women in Renoir paintings.
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By Emil Orlík - 1922
Like Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse, Durieux was the subject of a number of portraits by artists even though it was the age of photography. With one noteworthy exception, the images below were created by artists of German and Austrian background.
Note the surprisingly similar feeling in the three paintings above done by three different artists.
Here Tilla looks like most other women in Renoir paintings.
