Johann Rudolf Czernin von und zu Chudenitz

Johann Rudolf Graf Czernin and from Chudenitz ( born June 9, 1757 Vienna, † April 23, 1845 ) was an Austrian imperial administrative officer and art collector. He came from the Bohemian Uradelsgeschlecht Czernin and from Chudenitz. His father was Count Prokop Adalbert Czernin, who had exposed Mozart end of 1776 an annuity.

Life

Czernin went to school in Salzburg, where his uncle Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732-1812) was a bishop. The young Czernin and his sister had relationships with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote to exercise a violin concerto for him and the 8th piano concert for her. 1778 founded Czernin an orchestra that gave concerts at the Lodron family on Sunday afternoon. Leopold Mozart and Nannerl played several works. Leopold wrote to his son, who dwelt in Paris, bounded on Czernin's performance as a violin player.

In 1781 he married Theresa Schoenborn and traveled with her to Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland and England, and was interested in the new fashion, the English style in the design of parks. In the years 1783-1793 southwest of Krasny Dvur Castle was a great English landscape garden on behalf of Czernin. End of the 18th century hunting lodge Jemčina under Johann Rudolf Czernin was very famous. In the presence of the representatives of the Bohemian and Austrian nobility here famous hunts took place, and scholars and scientists of the National rebirth movement were guests here.

1810 Goethe was on the family property, Krasny Dvur Castle at Podersam invited. Around the turn of the century he began to collect and had twenty years later, the most important private art collection of the monarchy in 1813 he bought the painting, a painting by Johannes Vermeer. From 1817 to 1825 worked as a court painter František Tkadlík the noble family Czernin and overseer of the gallery in Vienna.

1823 Czernin was appointed as President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He held until 1827 this office. Already in 1823 he was appointed Colonel - treasurer. With this office he was entrusted with the management of the imperial collections of the court, but also the Burgtheater was thus under his direction. Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein joined in 1832 the successor Joseph Schrey bird as a dramaturge and assistant director of the Court Theatre. In addition, he co-founded the Society of the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia.

Johann Rudolf Czernin, Count of Chudenitz and died at the age of 88 years. His private art collection comprised at his death nearly 2,000 engravings, which laid the foundations of Czernin 's art collection. Portions of this collection can still be seen in the residence gallery in Salzburg today.

In 1882 ( 2nd district ) was named the Czerningasse and Czerninplatz after him in Vienna Leopoldstadt; both street names were already 1813 is not officially in use.

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