Description
The exhibition catalogue presents for the first time to the Czech public works of art from the Classical and Biedermeier periods from the rich collections of Hans-Adam II, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein. The outstanding portrait, landscape and genre works by leading Viennese artists – Heinrich Füger, Friedrich von Amerling, Peter Fendi and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – illustrate the role of the princely family as a major patron, commissioner and collector of art.
The publication includes over 300 works, in addition to paintings, sculpture, unique sets of painted Viennese porcelain, architectural drawings and furniture. It also focuses on the family’s Moravian estates and gives a plastic picture of the aristocratic family’s living culture through veduta, watercolours of interiors and pieces of furniture, especially from the furnishings of Lednice and Valtice.