Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg
The truchess Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg (* 1604 , † 1667 ) was a prince of the Waldburg-Wolfegg noble house , imperial field marshal and Bavarian governor in the Upper Palatinate . Today he is best known for his work as an art collector and is considered the founder of the extensive art collections of the Waldburg-Wolfegg house .
family
Maximilian Willibald was a great-great-grandson of Georg I von Waldburg-Zeil, the founder of the Georgian line, which in 1595 divided into the lines Zeil (still existing today as Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg ) and Wolfegg (today as Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee ) . He was one of seven children from the marriage of Erbtruchsess and Count Heinrich von Waldburg zu Wolfegg (1568–1637) and Countess Maria Jakoba von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1577–1650).
His first marriage was on November 8, 1637 Magdalene Juliane von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg (1619–1645); the marriage resulted in four children. In his second marriage, he married in Lindau on Lake Constance on December 26, 1648 Clara Isabella von Arenberg (1630–1670), a daughter of Philipp Karl Franz von Arenberg ; the marriage had ten children.
Life
Maximilian Willibald studied at the University of Dillingen and the University of Pont-à-Mousson . He worked for Archduke Leopold V at his court in Innsbruck and joined the Catholic Imperial Army after the Archduke's death in 1632. He fought mainly in the Thirty Years War in the region around Lake Constance (see Naval War on Lake Constance 1632–1648 ) and was an envoy on behalf of Ferdinand II. (HRR) to the Cologne and Mainz electors.
He gained fame in 1632 with the defense of the city of Constance from the Swedish troops under the leadership of the Swedish general Gustaf Horn . In 1647 he defended Lindau against the troops of General Wrangel , who had Wolfegg Castle , the ancestral seat of the Waldburg-Wolfegg family, set on fire during the 1646 deployment . He received only a small portion of the imperial gift of 70,000 guilders (his descendants sued the Empire for the money in 1802). Maximilian Willibald moved to Amberg because he did not have the financial means to rebuild Wolfegg Castle immediately. In addition, he accepted the position as governor of the Upper Palatinate.
Maximilian Willibald was an educated, multi-faceted aesthetician. He spoke German, Italian, French and Latin and was married to the art-loving Flemish Duchess Clara Isabella from the Arenberg family. At their wedding in 1648, the singspiel armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris by Bartholomäus Aich was premiered, which is considered to be one of the oldest opera-like compositions of German origin. The Chronicle of the Truchsessen von Waldburg from 1785 describes him as a "great lover of the secret and natural sciences as medicine, chemistry and alchemy" , who is interested in "all witty writings, poems and the like in all known languages" .
From around 1650 until his death, Maximilian Willibald began collecting works of art, and he was particularly interested in prints . Around 1654 he acquired 34,000 graphics from the estate of the Fugger family . At the time of his death in 1667, his collection comprised over 120,000 sheets, including national cultural assets such as the Medieval House Book and the Small Adhesive Tape .
In his will, Maximilian Willibald decreed that his art collection should be inherited as a unit and not be split up. Because of this, it remained practically unchanged for over 300 years. Also in his will he donated the construction of the Loreto Chapel near Wolfegg .
Maximilian Willibald is considered to be the founder of the Kupferstichkabinett at Waldburg Castle .
literature
- Lisa Zeitz: Big little duct tape . Arsprototo , edition 4/2011
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e According to the Waldburg Castle exhibition on October 30, 2012
- ↑ a b Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg zu Wolfegg, Erbtruchsess, Graf von Waldburg zu Wolfegg ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , worldhistory.de, accessed on November 2, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Lisa Zeitz: Large, small adhesive tape . Arsprototo, edition 4/2011
- ↑ "Armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris" ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Description of the content of a seminar by Johannes Hoyer, Florian Mehltretter and Franz Raml at the University of Augsburg (summer semester 2005) ( archived online copy ( memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Andrea Reidt, Werner Sonntag: Allgäu . Marco Polo Travel Guide (Dumont) 2005, ISBN 3-8297-0283-3 , p. 38 ( excerpt from Google book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldburg-Wolfegg, Maximilian Willibald von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolfegg, Maximilian Wilibald too |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German prince, governor, soldier and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1604 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1667 |