Miller-Aichholz Palace
The Miller-Aichholz Palace at Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 28 (formerly Heugasse 30) in the 4th district of Wieden was built from 1877 to 1880 according to plans by Andreas Streit in the immediate vicinity of the Albert Rothschild Palace for the industrialist, art lover and bon vivant Eugen von Miller zu Aichholz built.
history
Eugen von Miller zu Aichholz 'father Josef von Miller zu Aichholz had achieved wealth and (1865) ennoblement as a sugar industrialist ; He was also involved in pottery, textile and paper production.
Like him, his sons Viktor, Vinzenz and Eugen also combined business interests with an appreciation for art. Eugen, a lifelong bachelor, was an avid art collector. His palace was entirely dedicated to the display of his showpieces. The purpose of the magnificent staircase was to bring out three colossal paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo .
After Eugen's death in 1919, the building and its art treasures were bought by the industrialist and speculator Camillo Castiglioni . Castiglioni, a pioneer in the aviation industry and war supplier, played an important and controversial role in the economic life of a small Austria until 1924. But he also tried to exercise the traditional patronage role of the Jewish upper class. He financed the Theater in der Josefstadt and the Salzburg Festival . After the collapse of his financial empire, Castiglioni had to sell or pawn works of art from his palace. The three Tiepolo paintings from the stairwell, for example, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York via the Mendl family (owners of the Ankerbrot works) .
In 1938 the palace was "aryanized" and became the workplace of the imperial architect Hanns Dustmann , who designed monumental plans for a Vienna after the " final victory " there.
The palace was only slightly damaged in the Second World War . In 1945 it was confiscated as " German property " by the Soviet occupying forces .
After 1955 there was evidently no interested party in Austria for such a representative building and the palace was demolished in 1961. Today an architecturally insignificant residential building stands in its place.
literature
- Dora Stockert-Meynert: Features. With Eugen Miller-Aichholz. In: Wiener Zeitung , Wiener Abendpost (supplement to the Wiener Zeitung ), No. 179/1919, August 7, 1919, pp. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Edgard Haider: Lost Vienna - noble palaces of days gone by. Böhlau, Vienna (among others) 1984, ISBN 3-205-07220-0 .
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien - A look back at five decades . Third edition. LIT-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-X .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 39 ″ E