Marie (Mizzi) Wunsch, genre painter, born on 17 July 1862 in Gersthof (Weinhaus) in Vienna. As a small girl she participated in the drawing lessons given by Professor Taubinger to her sisters, where her keen sense of observation already manifested itself. Nevertheless, her talent was not encouraged. Until 1880, when she gained admission to the preparatory school of the Austrian Museum to study with Professor Minnigerode, Hrachowaner and in Rieser's studio, from where she moved to Abbazzia with the mother after two years of study because of her fragile health. She kept drawing and painting and eventually moved to Venice where she received further instructions from Eugen v. Blaas. There she pain...