Maria Auersperg Attems

Born: 1816

Death: 1880

Biography:

Marija Auersperg Attems (1816–1880) was a painter. A good painter. Art academies were men-only in her time, so she had to find other ways to get the desired knowledge and skills. She was born rich, which allowed her to afford private teachers to learn painting. Her name was Marija Auersperg Attems (1816–1880). Surprisingly little is known of her, although she was daughter of a powerful politician and wife of a well-known poet. Life of upper-class women use to be a hidden life 150 years ago. There are many written sources of her husband’s and father’s life. Nobody wrote of her. From her son’s testament we know she painted many pictures. Only nine remained in Slovenian and Austrian public galleries. She was married to Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known as Anastasius Grün, a well-known poet and liberal politician from Carniola, a former Habsburg crown land in today's Slovenia.