page_title: Eugenie Schumann
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Eugenie Schumann / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Die Kinder von Robert und Clara Schumann; v.l.n.r.: Ludwig, Marie, Felix, Elise, Ferdinand und Eugenie. Julie und Emil fehlen. Ambrotypie von 1854
context_page_description: Eugenie Schumann was a German pianist and author.
context_section_description: Eugenie Schumann was born 1 December 1851 in Düsseldorf.
  She was one of eight children and the youngest daughter of Robert and Clara Schumann. Eugenie studied piano with her mother and with Ernst Rudorff in Berlin. During all of her artistic life, she stood in the shadow of her mother. 
  She had a lesbian love affair with the singer Marie Fillunger, called "Fillu", who lived with the Schumanns for a long time after 1878. In 1888, Schumann ended the relationship, and in January 1889, Fillunger left the Schumanns' home. Both, however, continued to correspond intensively afterwards.
  In October 1892, Schumann moved to England and worked there as a piano teacher. In 1918, she left England to support her aged sister, Marie, who had lived in Interlaken, Switzerland, since 1897. In 1925, Schumann published her autobiography, Erinnerungen, and in 1931, a much-noted biography of her family, which was translated into several languages. 
  Schumann died 25 September 1938 in Bern, Switzerland, She was buried next to Marie Fillunger at the Gsteig cemetery in Wilderswil near Interlaken.
caption: The children of the Schumanns in 1854. From left: Ludwig, Marie, Felix, Elise, Ferdinand and Eugenie.
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