The paper discusses paintings commissioned by Johann Karl Count of Gaisruck (1714–1770) for his mansions Neu-Cilli and Turnisch. The commissions of paintings and wallpapers are put in context of the patron's biography and his financial situation. Renewed study of the Gaisruck's Fideikommiss documents in the Styrian Provincial Archives in Graz revealed that count Johann Karl and his elder brother Anton engaged altogether five painters: Johann Baptist Anton Raunacher, Franz Josef Reich, Johann Franz Pettunfill, Anton Josef Lerchinger and Josef Cassian Gasser. The paper sheds light on the Gaisruck' portraits by Josef Cassian Gasser in the main hall of the Neu-Cilli Mansion and on canvas wallpapers painted for three rooms of the same mansion. The author argues that the representaion with loyalty to Maria Theresia, emphasized in older literature, was less important for count Johann Karl's art commissions as representation with his own biography.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40792877
Although the collection of paintings from Hrastovec Castle in Lower Styria (now kept in Ptuj-Ormož and Maribor regional museums) is one of the largest surviving and best documented aristocratic painting collections in Styria it has hitherto received suprisingly little attention in literature. The paper, which in the proceedings of the international conference on Art Patronage in Styria, was published in Austria by Graz University Publishing House and is the first international study of this collection. The core of the collection, which once included more than 300 paintings and small sculptures, was acquired in the second half of the 17th century by Erasmus Friedrich Count of Herberstein. After his death, the castle and the collection were purchased by Erasmus relative Johan Ernst Count of Herberstein. His son, Johann Ernst the Younger, who inherited Hrastovec estate and run a thorough renovatin in late Baroque style, acquired a larger number of whole figure family portraits and created a portrait gallery. In addition of providing new findings on the commissioners' of individual parts of Hrastovec collection, the paper analyses their collecting practices, also on the basis on the analysis of picture furnishings of their other residences.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40514349
The article focuses on prince-bishop of the Lavantine diocese Dr. Mihael Napotnik and his role in the field of 19th century ecclesiastical architecture. Despite the fact that prince-bishop Napotnik was living at the turn of 19th and 20th century, his patronage style was typical for the early modern time, which is why he can be perceived as the last stage of this kind of art patron. Thanks to prince-bishop's interest and popularisation of building activity in his diocese (including books, published sermons, etc.), the Lavantine Diocese got several new churches of high artistic quality. The special place among them goes to the Franciscan church of Our Lady of Mercy in Maribor and parish church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Brestanica.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40514861