Rudolf von Strasser

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Rudolf von Strasser , born as Rudolf Strasser von Gyorvar (born April 2, 1919 in Pressburg , † March 10, 2014 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , banking specialist and glass collector.

Life

Rudolf von Strasser came from a family of large landowners and high kuk military. He joined the resistance against Hitler at the age of 17 . In late 1938 he was arrested and interned and many of his friends were murdered. He survived persecution by the Gestapo and the People's Court with a five-year prison term in German prisons.

After the Second World War, Strasser became a journalist and worked for Chancellor Julius Raab . He was head of the publications department of the Federal Chamber of Commerce . When the denazification "ebbed" and the democratization of Austria "crumbled", he wrote against it without success. Finally he went to America in 1954 and from 1972 published weekly in the magazine Die Furche with reports and analyzes from New York . He was an employee of the Austrian Foreign Trade Office in New York and foreign correspondent for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . He was employed by the investment banking house Kidder, Peabody & Co. and was a prominent investment advisor to German banks. He went to Wall Street and worked there as a broker .

He collected works of art, in particular lace glasses from the Renaissance , Baroque and Biedermeier periods .

In 1990 Rudolf von Strasser returned to Vienna. He continued to work on his collections and published his memoirs. In 2004 he donated his older part of the collection to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien , where it is now part of the collections of the Kunstkammer and Ambras Castle Innsbruck as the Strasser Glass Collection . Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein acquired the younger part with glasses from the early 19th century for the Princely Collections (Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz – Vienna).

Publications

  • The registration books of the Viennese glass and porcelain painter Anton Kothgasser (1769–1851). With the appendix The history of the secret records of the glass painter Gottlob Samuel Mohn , Laxenburg. Corona-Verlag Heine, Karlsruhe 1977, ISBN 3-921711-03-X .
  • with Walter Spiegl: Decorated glass. Renaissance to Biedermeier. Masters and workshops. with the supplement Raisonné catalog from the Rudolf von Strasser collection. With a contribution by Wolfgang Prager, Klinkhardt u. Biermann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7814-0283-5 .
  • Memories of a glass collector and much more. Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77155-9 .
  • Circles of life. Resistance and Reconstruction. Böhlau, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-205-78742-6 .

literature

  • Claudia Lehner-Jobst (text), Sabina Haag (ed.): 'Happiness is a transparent thing ...'. Guide to the Strasser Glass Collection. Permanent exhibition of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ambras Castle collections . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99020-038-4
  • Dwight P. Lanmon: Rudolf von Strasser (1919-2014) . In: Journal of Glass Studies 56, 2014, pp. 405-410.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Author Info Rudolf von Strasser, born 1919 Böhlau Verlag, accessed on March 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Oliver Tanzer : The courageous and the circles of life. Obituary, Die Furche Nr. 12, March 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Dieter Schaich: To be seen again: The glass collection Rudolf von Strasser . In: Der Glasfreund Heft 47, 2013, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strasser von Gyorvar, Rudolf (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, banking specialist and glass collector
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2014
Place of death Vienna