The Strahl collection was a private aristocratic collection of paintings, artworks and artisan objects, which Knight Edvard von Strahl (1817–1884) started to create in the 1860s together with his son Knight Karl Strahl (1850–1929) and their assistants in his castle in Stara Loka near Škofja Loka in Upper Carniola. Although the collection was sold off item by item in 1930, soon after Karl’s death, not much has been hitherto known about the public sale of paintings and movable property of his estate. Prispevek, ki je v okvira projekta dopolnjen in nadgrajen del poglavja avtoričine disertacije. Drawing on the judicial proceedings files concerning the auction of Strahl’s estate, which are kept in the Škofja Loka unit of the Historical Archives Ljubljana and provide an invaluable source of information on the buyers of individual paintings, pieces of furniture and other objects, the article sheds some light on the composition of Ljubljana’s intellectual and entrepreneurial elites, from the ranks of which came the most notable collectors or owners of artworks and antiques in the interwar period.
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