The Palais Lanckoroński was a palace in Vienna, Austria, located at Jacquingasse 16-18, in the Landstraße District. It was constructed in 1894-95 for 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. The palace was severely damaged in World War II, and was torn down in the 1960s.
Palais Lanckoroński in Vienna, 1895
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Count Karol Lanckoroński (1848 in Vienna - 1933 in Vienna) was a Polish writer, art collector, patron, historian, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his native Galicia. He was one of the wealthiest and most cultivated magnates in Austrian partition of Poland and in the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learningand also served as chamberlain to emperor Franz Joseph I.
Portrait of Count Karol Lanckoroński and his wife Małgorzata (née Princess Lichnowsky) by Jacek Malczewski.
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The noble family Lanckoroński assembled a major art collection through the generations, including Italian Renaissance paintings as well as German, French, and Dutch pictures, antique sculptures, bronzes, glass miniatures and porcelain: included antique sculptures, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Canaletto and Rembrandt. The art collection in the Lanckoroński Palais became one of the largest in Vienna under his stewardship.
Lanckroński collection: The Scholar at the Lectern (known as The Father of the Jewish Bride), by Rembrandt.
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Frequent visitors to the palace were the artists Hans Makart, Viktor Oskar Tilgner, Arnold Böcklin, Kaspar von Zumbusch and Auguste Rodin. Writers and authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke also paid visits. After the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Count decided to return to Poland and began to move a large part of his collection to the his family’s ancestral estate in Galicia.
Here stood the Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna, Jacquingasse 16-18
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During World War II the collection of Count Lanckroński have been plundered by the Nazi Germany. Many art objects were brought to Schloss Hohenems in the state of Vorarlberg for safekeeping during World War II. Unfortunately most of the objects brought there fell victim to fire. The art objects that remained after World War II were sold by the three heirs to the National Gallery, London as well as the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Some objects were also presented as a gift to Poland by Count Lanckoroński's youngest daughter Countess Karolina Lanckorońska in the 1990s. Items from the Lanckoroński collection can be seen in the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków and the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
The Royal Castle In Warsaw, Poland
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The legendary Profesor The legendary Profesor Countess Karolina Lanckorońska (Gars am Kamp, Lower Austria 1898 — 2002 Rome, Italy) was a famous World War II Polish resistance fighter, prisoner at Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, postwar historian as well as art historian and writer.
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska before II WW
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In 1967 Countess Lanckorońska established the Lanckoroński Foundation, which promotes and supports Polish culture, awarding over a million złotych per annum (US $330,000) for scholarships, publication of learned books, research into Polish archives in countries such as Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, and similar projects.
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Photos: public domain except where indicated.
Palais Lanckoroński in Vienna, 1895
Count Karol Lanckoroński (1848 in Vienna - 1933 in Vienna) was a Polish writer, art collector, patron, historian, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his native Galicia. He was one of the wealthiest and most cultivated magnates in Austrian partition of Poland and in the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learningand also served as chamberlain to emperor Franz Joseph I.
Portrait of Count Karol Lanckoroński and his wife Małgorzata (née Princess Lichnowsky) by Jacek Malczewski.
The noble family Lanckoroński assembled a major art collection through the generations, including Italian Renaissance paintings as well as German, French, and Dutch pictures, antique sculptures, bronzes, glass miniatures and porcelain: included antique sculptures, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Canaletto and Rembrandt. The art collection in the Lanckoroński Palais became one of the largest in Vienna under his stewardship.
Lanckroński collection: The Scholar at the Lectern (known as The Father of the Jewish Bride), by Rembrandt.
Here stood the Palais Lanckoronski, Vienna, Jacquingasse 16-18
The Royal Castle In Warsaw, Poland
The legendary Profesor The legendary Profesor Countess Karolina Lanckorońska (Gars am Kamp, Lower Austria 1898 — 2002 Rome, Italy) was a famous World War II Polish resistance fighter, prisoner at Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, postwar historian as well as art historian and writer.
Countess Karolina Lanckorońska before II WW
Source: Wikipedia and my own.
Photos: public domain except where indicated.