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In November 1925 Stonborough-Wittgenstein commissioned Engelmann to design a large townhouse. She later invited her brother, Ludwig Wittgenstein, to help with the design, in part to distract him [citation needed] from the scandal surrounding the Haidbauer incident in April 1926: Wittgenstein, while working as a primary-school teacher, had hit a boy who had subsequently collapsed.
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.
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.
Rudolf Wittgenstein (born 1881 in Vienna; died 1904 in Berlin by suicide) chemistry student; Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein (1882–1958), married Jerome Stonborough in 1904. Builder of the Haus Wittgenstein (of which her brother Ludwig was the architect) and longtime owner of the Villa Toscana . Painted by Gustav Klimt.
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 ...
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
[2] Wittgenstein retained the performing rights for a good number of years, which kept other pianists from performing the work. [3] Wittgenstein played the premiere of Diversions with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Ormandy on 16 January 1942. The Philadelphia reviewers commented more on Wittgenstein and his work as a one ...