Abstract
This volume by a senior research fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences comprises four essays on five art collectors mostly active in Bratislava and its locality between the late eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries: Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738–1822), Count János Pálffy (1829–1908), Baron Karl Kuffner (1847–1924), Enea Grazioso Lanfranconi (1850–1895) and Count Antoine Seilern (1901–1978). A younger son of Frederick Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Albert of Saxe-Teschen married a daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa, who in 1765 appointed him captain-general of Hungary. The kingdom’s administrative centre remained on its western periphery, at the hilltop castle of Bratislava, which Albert decorated with seventeenth century Flemish paintings, portrait busts by the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and antiquities purchased on a visit to Italy. Before leaving for Brussels as governor of the Austrian Netherlands in 1781, the Duke had also begun to assemble the immense collection of eventually 14,000 drawings and 200,000 prints, which has since 1805 been housed at his Viennese palace, the Albertina.
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