Palais Lanckoroński

Coordinates: 48°11′21″N 16°23′00″E / 48.18917°N 16.38333°E / 48.18917; 16.38333
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Palais Lanckoroński as seen from the street in 1895.
The Italian Salon.

The Palais Lanckoroński was a

Count Karol Lanckoroński and his family as a personal residence, and it housed the count's enormous art collection. The palace was built in a neo-baroque style by the theatre architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. The building was three stories high, set back from the street, and protected by a wall with double gates. The entrance hall was wood panelled, two stories high, and decorated with portraits of the family. Other festive halls were decorated with frescoes and luxurious gobelin tapestries from the 17th century. Precious paintings, furniture and sculpture from different eras were arranged to form themed ensembles in the various rooms, with the rooms named to reflect the collection housed within. The palace was severely damaged in World War II
, and was torn down in the 1960s.

History

Portrait of Count Karol Lanckoroński and his wife Małgorzata.

The noble Lanckoroński family,

Austro-Hungarian Empire
, the Count decided to return to Poland and began to move a large part of his collection to the family’s ancestral estate in Galicia.

With the

annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany
in 1938, the Nazis confiscated the palace. Since the heir Count Anton Lanckoroński was a Polish citizen, he was treated under the new regulation "Regulation on treatment of assets of nationals of the former Polish State". The remaining art collection was confiscated in 1939 after the outbreak of war with Poland.

Adolf Hitler decreed that all works confiscated in Austria should remain within the country, although items purchased could be exported. This measure was introduced as a result of the acquisition by Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring of two paintings from the Lanckoroński collection. Göring kept the pictures despite an order from Hitler to return them; nevertheless, the decree prevented the loss of the majority of Austria's works of art beyond its borders.[1]

Many art objects were brought to

Hoffmann-La Roche.[3] Today this office block serves as Austrian headquarter of Motorola
. The surviving art collection is scattered among various museums and private collections.

Lanckoroński Collection

Saint George and the Dragon, by Paolo Uccello, today in the National Gallery, London.
The Scholar at the Lectern (known as The Father of the Jewish Bride), by Rembrandt
Jupiter, Mercury and Virtue, by Dosso Dossi

Many of the objects in the collection originally came from the Royal Castle in Warsaw. They consisted of a large number of paintings which hung in the "Gallery of Stanisław August", named after King

Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków and the Royal Castle in Warsaw
.

Paintings in the Royal Castle, Warsaw

Paintings from the collection formerly housed in Vienna, today in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, include:[4]

other pieces are by

Ludolph Backhuysen and Philips Wouwerman
.

Paintings in the Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków

82 works from the Lanckoroński collection that were donated by the heiress Countess Karolina Lanckorońska are now in Kraków. These include works by Simone Martini, Bernard Daddi, Bartolo di Fredi, Apollonius di Giovanni, Jacopo del Sellaio, Vittore Crivella, Dosso Dossi, Garofalo.:[5]

Paintings in the Österreichische Galerie

Pieces in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna include:[6]

Rudolf von Alt paintings

The realist painter Rudolf von Alt met Count Lanckoronski in Nuremberg on August 29, 1881. In the autumn of that year, he executed a series of ten interiors of the Count’s apartments. The paintings sometimes get confused as being interior depictions of the count's Palais at Jacquingasse. The paintings, however, are of his former residence at Riemergasse 8, in Vienna's Innere Stadt.[7][8]

The watercolour series represent various rooms decorated with paintings and sculptures of the 17th and 18th century. In some, the Count can be seen sitting in one of the armchairs, reading a book. Using a refined technique, von Alt very precisely depicted all works of art, which are easy to identify. For example, the bust of

Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
.

  • The morning room in the Lanckoronski apartments, painted by Rudolf von Alt
    The morning room in the Lanckoronski apartments, painted by Rudolf von Alt
  • One of the drawing rooms
    One of the drawing rooms
  • The library
    The library
  • The office of the count
    The office of the count

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-56649-253-9
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  2. ^ "Historia dwóch obrazów". Zamek Królewski w Warszawie - Pomnik Historii i Kultury Narodowej. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  3. ISBN 978-3-8258-7754-5
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  4. ^ a b "Galeria Lanckorońskich". Zamek Królewski w Warszawie - Pomnik Historii i Kultury Narodowej. Archived from the original on 2010-06-27. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  5. ^ Janczyk, Agnieszka; Kazimierz Kuczman; Joanna Winiewicz-Wolska. "Collections » Painting". Wawel Royal Castle. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  6. ^ a b Elisabeth Gehrer (February 17, 1999). "5184/AB (XX. GP)". Schriftliche Beantwortung (gem. § 91 (4) GOG). Parlamentsdirektion. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
  7. ^ Hevesi, Ludwig; Kuzmany, Karl M. (1911). Rudolf Alt - Sein Leben und sein Werk. Vienna. p. 77.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ISBN 978-3-7017-0138-4
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  9. ISBN 978-3-922608-45-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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