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Haus Wittgenstein (also known as the Stonborough House and the Wittgenstein House) is a house in the modernist style on the Kundmanngasse, Vienna, Austria. It "shows remarkably similar characteristics in its obsession with detail and complete disregard for the requirements of the people who are expected to live within it."
Wittgenstein appears as a character in Derek Jarman's 1993 film Wittgenstein, about his brother Ludwig. Wittgenstein is referenced extensively in the latter half of Brian Evenson's novel Last Days. [16] Wittgenstein's life is the basis for the Neil Halstead song "Wittgenstein's Arm" on his 2012 album Palindrome Hunches.
Suite for 2 Violins, Violoncello and Piano (left hand), Op. 23 (1930) CDP First performance in Vienna on 21 October 1930 by Wittgenstein with members of the Rosé Quartet. Josef Labor: Concert Piece in form of variations in D major (1915) DP Written when Wittgenstein was a prisoner of war in Omsk, Siberia, Russia. This was the work with which ...
The Wittgenstein family is a German-Austrian family that rose to prominence in 19th- and 20th-century Vienna, Austria. The family was originally Jewish and originated from the Wittgensteiner Land [ de ] in Siegen-Wittgenstein , Germany.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ ˈ v ɪ t ɡ ən ʃ t aɪ n,-s t aɪ n / VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; [7] Austrian German: [ˈluːdvɪk ˈjoːsɛf ˈjoːhan ˈvɪtɡn̩ʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
Louis Adolf Peter, 1st Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Ludwigsburg-Berleburg (German: Ludwig Adolf Peter Fürst [2] zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg; Russian: Пётр Христианович Витгенштейн, romanized: Pëtr Christianovič Vitgenštejn; Pyotr Christianovitch Wittgenstein; 17 January [O.S. 6 January] 1769 – 11 June 1843), better known as Peter Wittgenstein in English, was ...
Wittgenstein may also refer to: Wittgenstein, Derek Jarman's 1993 biopic of Ludwig Wittgenstein; Wittgenstein family relatives of Ludwig Palais Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, now demolished residence of the family; Haus Wittgenstein, residence of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein in Vienna, Austria, partly designed by her brother Ludwig