Count Karol Lanckoroński
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Count Karol Lanckoroński(-Brzezie) (b. November 4, 1848 in Vienna - July 15, 1933 in Vienna) was a writer, art collector, patron, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his native Galicia. He was of Polish origin and one of the wealthiest and most cultivated magnates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His name in the German language was Karl Lanckoronski.
[edit] Life
Count Lanckoroński studied art history and law, but because of the wealth of his family never had work for a living. In 1882 he participated with Otto Benndorf in an expedition to Lycia in Turkey. In 1885-86 he organised his own exploratory mission to Pamphyilia and Pisidia. Further travels took him to East Asia, where he was accompanied by the painter Hans Makart, as well as Spain and Portugal.
He kept his enormous art collection in his city-palace in Vienna, the Palais Lanckoronski.
He was Grand Steward to the emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. After World War I, he spend more time at his family estate in Galicia. He became engaged in art conservation. He was the father of Countess Karolina Lanckorońska, who became a well-known historian and résistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
[edit] Literature
- Camillo Praschniker: Karl Graf Lanckoronski : (4. Nov. 1848 - 15. Juli 1933); ein Nachruf. In: Almanach der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 1934
