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Palais Rothschild
Palais Rothschild refers to a number of palaces in Vienna, Austria, which were owned by members of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild banking family. Apart from their sheer size and elegance, they were famous for the huge collections of valuable paintings, statues, furniture, books and armour that they housed, another reflection of the family's vast wealth and prominent position. The collections were confiscated by the Nazis in 1938, and the palaces were stripped and ruined during World War II. After the war, the heirs received little compensation. What remained of the buildings was sold off, or destroyed and replaced by modern office buildings. The history of these palaces and the art collections they contained is symbolic of the rise and fall of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family. The palaces The five main Rothschild palaces (''Palais Rothschild'') in Vienna were: * Palais Albert Rothschild (demolished in 1954) * Palais Nathaniel Rothschild (demolished after 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Teniers II - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm And The Artist In The Archducal Picture Gallery In Brussels (1653)
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group Portrait painting, portraiture. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork. Biography Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp, then in the Spanish Netherlands, as the son of cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen ( 1542–1610) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.Frans Hals iat the Netherlands Institute for Art History Like many, Hals's parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp (1584–1585) from the south to Haarlem in the new Dutch Republic in the north, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Hals studied under Flemish people, Flemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothschild Family Residences
Rothschild () is a name derived from the German ''zum rothen Schild'' (with the old spelling "th"), meaning "with the red sign", in reference to the houses where these family members lived or had lived. At the time, houses were designated by signs with different symbols or colors, not numbers. The name ''Rothschild'' in Yiddish means "red coat" (coat as in heraldic coat of arms). The Rothschild banking family's coat of arms features in the center of its heraldry a red shield. The German surname "Rothschild" is not related to the Scottish/Irish surname of "Rothchilds" from the United Kingdom. People The most notable family of people with this surname are descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild who formed a financial dynasty and, in modern history, perhaps the wealthiest family by the scale of their private fortune. In Denmark, by royal decree of 29 March 1814, all Danish Jews were obliged to adopt a surname after their town of residence. In the records, one family with resid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Welz
Friedrich Maximilian Welz (born 2 November 1903 in Salzburg; died 5 February 1980 there) was an Austrian art dealer and Nazi party member investigated for art looting. Biography Welz Gallery Friedrich Welz took over his father's picture frame shop in Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse in 1934 as manager and in 1937 as owner. In it he opened his "art store", which soon developed into the "Galerie Welz", whose first exhibitions were devoted to the works of Klimt, Schiele, Kubin and Kokoschka. Later exhibitions focused on the Vienna Secession, the Nötsch Circle, Italian and French art of the 19th and 20th centuries, and German Expressionism. In 1937 he moved the gallery to the vacated showrooms of the "Wittek Villa" in Schwarzstraße. There he organized with Otto Kallir the "Waldmüller Exhibition", which was highly regarded during the Austrofascist Ständestaat. Prominent visitors included Franz Rehrl, then governor of Salzburg, and Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. Rise during Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gert Kerschbaumer
Gert Kerschbaumer (born 27 January 1945 in Spital am Semmering) is an Austrian historian and German culture scholar. Kerschbaumer has been living in Salzburg since the 1960s. He worked in industry and studied German literature and history at the same time. In addition to research and teaching activities, he has published on the subjects of art in the National Socialism and art theft, as well as works on Stefan Zweig. Publications * ''Faszination Drittes Reich. Kunst und Alltag der Kulturmetropole Salzburg''. Müller, Salzburg 1988, * ''Meister des Verwirrens. Die Geschäfte des Kunsthändlers Friedrich Welz Friedrich Maximilian Welz (born 2 November 1903 in Salzburg; died 5 February 1980 there) was an Austrian art dealer and Nazi party member investigated for art looting. Biography Welz Gallery Friedrich Welz took over his father's picture frame ...''. (Die Bibliothek des Raubes, vol. 5) Czernin, Vienna 2000, * with Karl Müller: ''Begnadet für das Schöne. Der rot-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Fund Of The Republic Of Austria For Victims Of National Socialism
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, german: Nationalfonds der Republik Österreich für Opfer des Nationalsozialismus, is a fund created by the Republic of Austria to seek to apply restitution for property confiscated by the Nazis during World War II. The fund was established in 1995. The fund maintains databases of property, including the Art Database of the National Fund, held in the Wiener Stadtbibliothek. General Settlement Fund The General Settlement Fund is constituted to seek to compensate victims of Nazi persecution from all of the persecuted minorities, religious, cultural, ethnic, handicapped, and those who left Austria in order to escape persecution. The claim for compensation passes to the heirs Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have change ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Jews In Austria
The history of the Jews in Austria probably begins with the exodus of Jews from Judea under Roman occupation. Over the course of many centuries, the political status of the community rose and fell many times: during certain periods, the Jewish community prospered and enjoyed political equality, and during other periods it suffered pogroms, deportations to concentration camps and mass murder, and antisemitism. The Holocaust drastically reduced the Jewish community in Austria and only 8,140 Jews remained in Austria according to the 2001 census, though other estimates place the current figure at 9,000, 15,000, or 20,000 people, if accounting for those of mixed descent. Antiquity Jews have been in Austria since at least the 3rd century CE. In 2008 a team of archeologists discovered a third-century CE amulet in the form of a gold scroll with the words of the Jewish prayer Shema Yisrael (Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one) inscribed on it in the grave of a Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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