| Liechtenstein Garden Palace | |
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| Native name Gartenpalais Liechtenstein (German) | |
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| Location | Liechtenstein Garden Palace Fürstengasse 1,Vienna,Austria |
| Coordinates | 48°13′21″N16°21′35″E / 48.2226°N 16.3596°E /48.2226; 16.3596 |
| Built | early 1700s |
| Owner | House of Liechtenstein |
TheGartenpalais Liechtenstein (eng.: Liechtenstein Garden Palace) is a baroque palace on Fürstengasse inVienna's 9thdistrict,Alsergrund. The palace is owned by thePrincely Family of Liechtenstein, rulers ofLiechtenstein. It sits on the southern end of the Liechtensteinpark.
Until 2011, the palace was home to the Liechtenstein Museum. The building was renamed "Gartenpalais Liechtenstein" to distinguish it from theStadtpalais Liechtenstein in theInnere Stadt.
TheGartenpalais was built during the reign of PrinceJohann Adam Andreas von Liechtenstein, who had acquired a plot in the Rossau suburb. He commissioned its design and construction fromDomenico Egidio Rossi; the shell was finished in 1700.[1] ArtistsMarcantonio Franceschini,Antonio Bellucci,Andrea Pozzo, andJohann Michael Rottmayr contributed to the décor in the palace. The palace, designed as a mix of a city and country house in the Roman style, was completed in the early 1700s.[1]
The garden was laid out in the style of a classicBaroque garden. The vases and statues were sculpted by local resident Giovanni Giuliani according to plans by Giuseppe Mazza. Around 1820, the garden was redesigned in aneoclassical style according to plans byJoseph Kornhäusel. Anorangery, built in 1700, was placed opposite the palace on Fürstengasse.
Originally, a gardenbelvedere stood on the northern side of the park. This was replaced between by the Alserbachpalais in 1875, designed byHeinrich von Ferstel forCountess Franziska, widow ofAloys II.
From 1805 to theAnschluss in 1938, the Palais housed the family collection of the House of Liechtenstein, which was also open to the public; the collection was then transferred to Liechtenstein, which remained neutral during the war and didn’t suffer from any bombing. In the 1960s and 1970s, theBauzentrum (eng.:building centre) was housed in the palace as a tenant, an exhibition for the builders of detached houses and similar buildings. From 26 April 1979, theMuseum des 20. Jahrhunderts (eng.Museum of the 20th Century), a federalmuseum, rented the building. The museum renamed itselfMuseum of Modern Art. In 2001, it moved to the newly builtMuseumsQuartier.
From 29 March 2004 until the end of 2011, the Palais was part of the Liechtenstein Museum, whose collection, owned by thePrincely Family of Liechtenstein, included paintings and sculptures from across five centuries. The museum also operated in theStadtpalais Liechtenstein. The collection is one of the largest and most valuable private art collections in the world, with its main base inVaduz.
In November 2011, it was announced that regular museum operations in the palace would be discontinued in January 2012 due low visitor numbers. Exhibited works of art would then be on display only during theLong Night of Museums, for registered groups, and during rented events.[2] The name Liechtenstein Museum will no longer be used.
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