Portrait of Johanna Weber-Honegger
| Dating | 1902 |
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| Provenance | Werner and Johanna Weber-Honegger, Rüti, Switzerland |
| Current residence | unknown |
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| Remarks | Johanna Honegger was the granddaughter of Kaspar Honegger (1820-1892), founder of Maschinenfabrik Rüti, a major textile machine factory in Rüti, near Zurich. She married Werner Weber, who would be the managing director of this by then worldfamous factory from 1886 until his death. About 1900 the Weber-Honegger couple belonged to the rich and established industrialist families of the Zurich highlands. Together they had eight children including two girls and a boy who deceased at a young age. In the periode 1902-1903 Henri Goovaerts portrayed the couple Weber-Honegger and their children. Five portraits of the Weber-Honegger children are known, one of which being of their daughter who was killed in accident. (Reference: "Unser Rüti vor 100 Jahren," Publication No. 72 Ortskundliche Sammlung Dürnten, February 2013.) |