Lydia Welti-Escher

Lydia Welti-Escher
Portrait by Karl Stauffer-Bern
Born
Lydia Escher

(1858-07-10)10 July 1858
Zürich-Enge
Died12 December 1891(1891-12-12) (aged 33)
Genève-Champel
Other namesLydia Escher
Years active1874–1891
Known forArts patronage
Notable workGottfried Keller Foundation
SpouseFriedrich Emil Welti
PartnerKarl Stauffer-Bern

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 an affair with the artist Karl Stauffer-Bern; both she and Stauffer eventually died by suicide.

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