Karl Wittgenstein (1847-1913), industrialist and patron of the arts — Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1908. (via tartanspartan)

Karl, born in 1847, was the sixth of eleven children of Hermann and Fanny. One of his brothers, Paul Wittgenstein (1842-1928), was the father of Dr Karl Paul Wittgenstein who married Hilde Köchert, daughter of renowned Viennese jeweller Heinrich Köchert: their son Paul Wittgenstein (1907-1979) was “Wittgenstein’s Nephew”, the central character of a book by his friend Thomas Bernhard.