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Hace 4 días · The Fondation Singer-Polignac was created by law on 25th March 1928 and the decree of the 17th October 1928 endorsed Winnaretta's endowment to the French state. The income of the capital was intended to support the activities defined by the statutes of the foundation. After the death of the princess, the Fondation inherited her Paris mansion ...
Winnaretta Eugénie Singer (vuodesta 1893 ruhtinatar de Polignac; 8. tammikuuta 1865 Yonkers, New York, Yhdysvallat – 26. marraskuuta 1943 Lontoo, Iso-Britannia) oli pääosan elämästään Ranskassa asunut yhdysvaltalais-ranskalainen miljoonaperijä, taiteilija ja taidemesenaatti, joka tuki taloudellisesti monia eurooppalaisia säveltäjiä ja taiteilijoita, erityisesti aikansa modernien ...
10 de nov. de 2014 · Widowed in 1901, Winnaretta, a great pianist and organist herself, strengthened her position as a patron of the arts, welcoming the musical and artistic avant-garde in her Parisian mansion which is now the Foundation Singer-Polignac. Winnaretta Singer’s extraordinary relationship with musicians and artists between 1914 and 1918 was the topic ...
Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac. She was born in Yonkers, New York, the twentieth of the 24-children of the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. She grew up predominantly at the Oldway Mansion, the 115-room house her father built in Devon, England. After he died, she moved back to Paris with her French mother and ...
The Palazzo Contarini Polignac has four important pianos in its collection, an 1898 Pleyel, an 1885 Erard, an 1882 Erard upright and a five-octave portable piano made by JB Cramer of London in 1898. The instruments were owned by Winnaretta Singer and have been expertly restored this year by Gérard Fauvin in Pétignac.
Winnaretta Singer had married Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard to gain access to Paris’s elite artistic circles, but everybody knew that she preferred the company of women. Not surprising, their marriage went unconsummated and was annulled in 1892.
Winnaretta's father, Isaac, was one of the most colourful entrepreneurs on either side of the Atlantic during the mid-19th century. He made a considerable fortune from the design and manufacture of the iconic Singer sewing-machine. Born in Pittstown, New York, he ran away from home at the age of eleven to join a travelling theatre company.
