- Tilla Durieux
Tilla Durieux (
August 18 1880 –February 21 1971 ) was a renowned German actress of the first decades of the 20th century.Born Odilie Godefroy, she trained in
Vienna , her native town and got her first engagement inBreslau . Later she worked withMax Reinhardt andErwin Piscator inBerlin .In 1904, Durieux married the
Berlin Secession painterEugen Spiro , and after their divorce, she remarried in 1910 the successful art dealer and editorPaul Cassirer , who committed suicide in a room next to the court room that pronounced her divorce. Durieux remarried soon afterwardsLudwig Katzenellenbogen . In 1933 she leftGermany forSwitzerland to escapeNazi rule. In1937 she moved toZagreb (then in theKingdom of Yugoslavia ) where she remained until1953 .External links
* [http://tilla.mdc.hr/En_Tilla_Durieux.aspx Tilla Durieux and her Art Collection]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/european_paintings/Tilla_Durieux_Ottilie_Godeffroy_1880_1971/viewObject.aspx?&OID=110001883&PgSz=1 Portrait of Tilla Durieux painted by Renoir: Metropolitan Museum of Art]
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