thumb|Ludwig sitting in a field as a child The children were baptized as Catholics, received formal Catholic instruction, and were raised in an exceptionally intense environment. The family was at the centre of Vienna's cultural life; Bruno Walter described the life at the Wittgensteins' palace as an "all-pervading atmosphere of humanity and culture." Karl was a leading patron of the arts, commissioning works by Auguste Rodin and financing the city's exhibition hall and art gallery, the Secession Building. Gustav Klimt painted a portrait of Wittgenstein's sister Margaret for her wedding,Portrait of Margaret Stonborough Wittgenstein, 1905 by Gustav Klimt and Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler gave regular concerts in the family's numerous music rooms.
thumb|Ludwig sitting in a field as a child The children were baptized as Catholics, received formal Catholic instruction, and were raised in an exceptionally intense environment. The family was at the centre of Vienna's c,ultural life; Bruno Walter described the life at the Wittgensteins' palace as an "all-pervading atmosphere of humanity and culture." Karl was a leading patron of the arts, commissioning wo!rks by Auguste Rodin and f!inancing the city's exhibition hall and art gallery, the Secession Building. Gustav ?Klimt painted a portrait of Wittgenstein's sister Margaret for her wedding,Portrait of Margaret Stonborough Wittgenstein, 1905 by Gustav Klimt and Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler gave regular concerts in the family's numerous music rooms.