Schönborn-Batthyány Palace

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Schönborn-Batthyány Palace
Detail of the street-side facade
Grand staircase in the Palais Batthyany-Schönborn

The Palais Schönborn-Batthyány is a baroque building with partial rococo furnishings in Vienna's 1st  district, Innere Stadt , Renngasse  4. In Vienna, it is mostly, but not always, meant by “Palais Schönborn”, in contrast to the “Schönborn Garden Palace” in the 8th district .

history

The present palace goes back to the Ban of Croatia , Field Marshal Adam Graf Batthyány. In 1698 he acquired the property including the Schleglhof located on it, a property that had initially belonged to the Imperial Herold Johann Gasser or his wife's family and then passed into the possession of Michael Graf Sinzendorf .

After a large part of the Schleglhof was demolished, today's palace was built from 1699 to 1706 according to plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach . Count Batthyány commissioned the Viennese stonemason Johann Carl Trumler to carry out the stonemasonry in the staircase of the palace "according to Mr. Fischer's demolition " , the hard stone workpieces were supplied by master Johann Georg Haresleben from Kaisersteinbruch , who mainly made the staircase and supporting architectural parts from Kaiserstein .

Around 1740 it became the property of Friedrich Karl von Schönborn . Under his direction, the interior of the building was redesigned and furnished with furniture and paintings from the Schönborn Garden Palace in Alservorstadt , which also belonged to Schönborn. In 1801 all collections were transferred from the Summer Palace here. Among the paintings was, among other things, “ The Blinding of Simsons ” by Rembrandt. The valuable library contained around 18,000 volumes. In 1846 there was an extensive renovation. At the beginning of the 20th century, the majority of the art treasures in the palace were sold. The palace was badly damaged in World War II , but it was restored by 1960. The rococo decorations from Schönborn's time are still preserved in the representative rooms on the first floor. The facade is rich in figural decorations. The building is still owned by the Austrian Schönborn line from Weyerburg and Göllersdorf , but is partly rented.

Since 2016, the Vienna and New York-based gallery W & K-Wienerroither & Kohlbacher has presented contemporary art in the Bel Etage; monographic exhibitions by Ross Bleckner , Günter Brus , Kurt Kocherscheidt , Elke Silvia Krystufek , Heinz Mack , Günther Uecker , Max Weiler have already been shown u. a.

Web links

Commons : Palais Schönborn-Batthyány  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hungarian State Archives , contract of March 29, 1703 between Count Batthyány and Master Trumler.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 43 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E