Palais Eskeles
The Palais Eskeles is a palace at Dorotheergasse 11 in the 1st district in Vienna , where the Jewish Museum Vienna is located.
history
In 1414 the “Dorotheerstift” was built in this area by the Augustinian canons and expanded through the purchase of neighboring objects so that the monastery complex already included the front of today's house no. 11 in the early 16th century. Because of the increasing maintenance costs, the monastery soon rented and sold part of the complex, which also included the area of house number 11.
In 1782 the monastery was placed under the administration of the Klosterneuburg monastery by Joseph II and abolished in 1786. The Klosterneuburg convent then rented the deconsecrated church and other buildings to a pawn shop . The church served as an auction hall for the Dorotheum, which was later named after this church .
In 1804 the building at Dorotheergasse 11 was owned by August von Holzmeister, who a year later sold it to Anna Maria von Dietrichstein, who between 1805 and 1807 sold one of the apartments in the building to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's widow Constanze Mozart and her sons Franz Xaver Wolfgang and Carl rented out.
In 1812 the house belonged to Paul III. Anton Fürst Esterházy , who sold it a year later to Alois Fürst Kaunitz-Rietberg, son of State Chancellor Count Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg . In 1823 Kaunitz ceded the building to one of his creditors, the Arnstein und Eskeles bank founded by Bernhard Freiherr von Eskeles in 1773 . In a contemporary document it is referred to as the Princely Kaunitzsches - now Arnsteinisches Haus .
In 1827 the building was sold to the Hungarian Count Alexander Náko de Szent Miklos, who, after some renovations, lived in it with his family and servants from 1830, making it known as Palais Náko . After staying in the family for almost 70 years, Koloman Count Náko de Szent Miklos sold the house to the builders Ignaz Fleischer and Salomon Stein.
In 1895 the palace was acquired by Hugo Hermann Werner Ottomar Miethke with all the furnishings as a location for the Miethke gallery . Miethke had the classical building completely redesigned by the Viennese city architects "Kupka & Orglmeister". The portal was provided with a glass and iron canopy and the vestibule was redesigned in a rococo style. The floor was lowered by four steps to make the entrance area appear higher. The floor was laid with white marble and the walls were clad with yellowish and purple speckled panels. Wall pillars and balustrades were made of dark red Untersberg marble. A marble portal emphasized the entrance to the former inner courtyard, which had been transformed into an exhibition hall by installing a glass ceiling. Under the later direction of the painter Carl Moll , the gallery developed into a center of modern art.
After the end of the First World War, the Eskeles Palace was used as the “House of Young Artists” and in 1936 it came into the possession of the Dorotheum.
In July 1993, the Jewish Museum Vienna moved into the palace after it had previously been housed as a temporary facility in the premises of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna at Seitenstettengasse 4. The museum opened on November 18, 1993.
Trivia
In the palace there is the ceiling painting of another Esterházy palace (from Mariahilf), which was originally called Palais Kaunitz , but later (until it was demolished in 1970) then functioned as a Marian grammar school .
literature
- Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Red.): Jewish Museum Vienna . Adolf Holzhausen's successor, Vienna [1996]. ISBN 3-901398-03-1
- Tobias G. Natter: The Miethke Gallery. An art shop in the center of modernity . Jewish Museum Vienna, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3901398325 , ISBN 978-3901398322
Web links
- Entry via Palais Nákó on Burgen-Austria
- Jewish Museum Vienna - The Palais at Dorotheergasse 11, its owners and residents ( Memento from March 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '26 " N , 16 ° 22' 9.7" E