Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy as Hungarian painter (1863–1923).
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy was born at Hajdúdorog in 1863. Her recorded nationality is Hungary.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter.
Among her best-known works are Portrait of Andrew Carnegie, Portrait of Ludwig Windthorst and The Poet Eduard von Bauernfeld. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Hungary shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy died in 1923, aged 60. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Portrait of Andrew Carnegie
- Notable work: Portrait of Ludwig Windthorst
- Notable work: The Poet Eduard von Bauernfeld
- Notable work: Chauncey Mitchell Depew, B.A. 1856, LL.D. 1887, Fellow 1888-1906
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