Tivoli House
House Tivoli (Slovene: Grad Tivoli), originally called Unterthurn Castle (Slovene: Grad Pod turnom ), is a mansion in Ljubljana , the capital of Slovenia .
location
The house is located in the Tivoli City Park in the Rožnik district, northwest of the city center at the foot of Rožnik Hill. This connects to the Jakopič promenade, which in turn forms the extension of Cankarstrasse.
history
Today's palace goes back to a defense tower of a Ljubljana city commander from the 13th century. Laibach, today's Ljubljana, had been under Habsburg rule since 1278 . During armed conflicts between Hungarians and the Habsburgs, the tower was burned down in 1448 by Ulrich II's troops.
A castle was built on the foundation walls of the tower. In 1601 the Jesuits , who had been running a college in Ljubljana since 1599 , bought the building, had it torn down, rebuilt and used it as a rest home. As a result of the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the college was taken over by the state, and the Laibacher Palais fell first to the Catholic Church, then to the estates .
In 1835 a garden restaurant and café called Tivoli was opened next to the palace . This is how the palace and the garden got their names. In 1852 Emperor Franz Josef bought the building and left it to his Field Marshal Radetzky for life. The building was renovated, given today's classicist facade, the garden was expanded, some of it was newly laid out with free access for the citizens. In 1865 the city bought the palace and made some extensions and alterations. B. built the representative external staircase and the fountain. Until 1967 the building was used for residential purposes. Today it serves as a museum and houses an extensive collection of contemporary graphics.
International Center of Graphic Arts
The house, which houses a collection of modern, international graphics , is the seat of the International Center of Graphic Arts , which has hosted the Biennial of Graphic Arts since 1955 on odd years . The curators of the Biennale include a. Giulio Carlo Argan , Jorge Glusberg , Pontus Hultén , Pierre Restany and Ryszard Stanisławski.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laurence Cole: Military Culture and Popular Patriotism in Late Imperial Austria Oxford: Univ. Press 2014. p. 83
- ^ Palais Tivoli , accessed April 5, 2018.
- ^ Biennal Foundation , accessed April 4, 2018.
Coordinates: 46 ° 3 '17.3 " N , 14 ° 29' 34.3" E