Lydia Welti-Escher
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Lydia Welti-Escher was a Swiss patron of the arts. The only surviving child of businessman and politician Alfred Escher, she was one of the richest women in Switzerland at the time and established the
Portrait by Karl Stauffer-Bern
Lydia and her father Alfred Escher, around 1865
Lydia, probably around 1875
Tombstone of Lydia Welti-Escher, Cimetière des Rois, Geneva
Alfred Escher
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Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, colloquially Alfred Escher, was a Swiss business magnate, banker, railway pioneer and politician who most notably served on the National Council from 1848 to 18
Lydia Welti-Escher
…Lydia Welti-Escher (10 July 1858 – 12 December 1891) was a Swiss patron of the arts. The only surviving child of businessman and politician Alfred Escher, she was one of the richest women in Switzerland at the time and established the Gottfried Keller Foundation. She married Friedrich Emil Welti but had…
Escher around 1875
Alfred Escher's grave in the Manegg cemetery in Zürich
Alfred Escher memorial statue by Richard Kissling, Bahnhofplatz, Zürich