Palais Dumba

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Palais Dumba on Parkring (2008)
The library in the Palais Dumba, after Rudolf von Alt

The Palais Dumba is a Viennese palace in the 1st district of Vienna Innere Stadt at Parkring 4, corner of Zedlitzgasse.

The Palais Dumba was built between 1865 and 1866 by the famous Viennese architects Johann Romano vonringen and August Schwendenwein von Lanauberg on behalf of Nikolaus Dumba as a large U-shaped corner house in the Viennese neo-Renaissance style. The industrialist and politician of Aromanian descent was known primarily in Vienna as an art patron and music lover. Today the rather inconspicuous, five-storey Palais houses apartments and several shops on the ground floor.

The palace was best known for its rich interior furnishings, most of which, however, were auctioned off in 1937 in the Dorotheum . The ornate study of the palace was created by the famous artist Hans Makart . Gustav Klimt and Friedrich Schilcher also took part . However, their overhangs burned during the Second World War . The formerly rich furnishings were captured in some watercolors by Rudolf von Alt or in photographs.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 46 ″  E

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