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Karol Lanckronski | |
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| Born | 4 November 1848 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 15 July 1933 (aged 84) Vienna, Austria |
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| Family | Countess Karolina Lanckoronska |
CountKarol Lanckoroński (German:Karl Lanckoronski) (born 4 November 1848 inVienna; died 15 July 1933 in Vienna) was a Polish writer,[Lanckoroński Foundation 1]art collector,patron, historian, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his nativeGalicia. He was one of the wealthiest and most cultivatedmagnates inAustrian partition of Poland and in the whole of theAustro-Hungarian Empire. He was a member of thePolish Academy of Learning.
Count Lanckoroński studiedart history and law, but because of his family's wealth never had to work for a living. In 1882 he participated withOtto Benndorf in an expedition toLycia in Turkey. In 1885–86 he organised his own exploratory mission toPamphylia andPisidia.[1] Further travels took him to East Asia, where he was accompanied by the painterHans Makart, as well as Spain andPortugal.
He kept his enormous art collection in his city palace in Vienna, thePalais Lanckoronski.
He was Grand Steward to the emperorFranz Joseph I of Austria. AfterWorld War I, he spent more time at his family estate in Galicia, in newlyindependent Poland. He became engaged in art conservation.
He was the father ofCountess Karolina Lanckorońska, who became a well-known historian andPolish anti-Nazi resistance fighter during the German occupation of Poland.
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