Schaezlerpalais

The Augsburg Schaezlerpalais houses municipal and state art collections. It lies on the Hercules fountain and was formerly the city palace of banker Benedict Adam Freiherr von Liebert, Edler von Mayrhofen love. Its facing the Maximilian street building facade is much narrower than that at the Katharinengasse running along front of house 107 m with 19 m.

History

Already in 1346 a building was mentioned at this point. 1499 there was a new building with bay windows and porch, the Imperial Council of the Philip Adler was in order. The later Emperor Maximilian I made ​​several quarters in this house. Adler's daughter Anna married and gave birth to their daughter Franz Welser Philippine Welser. My birthplace was gradually owned by local families of the Welser, Rehlinger, Sulzer and Stetten.

1764 acquired the banker Benedict Adam Liebert, the building of David von Stetten. The Liebert had come to Augsburg in 1733 and silver trading assets. 1763 was Johann Adam Liebert, Father Benedict Adams, as " Edler von Mayrhofen Love " has been elevated to the hereditary nobility Empire and the Augsburg patrician. A befitting Logis was now required. The house was purchased from 1765 replaced by a new building. This rococo palace was built by the Munich court architect Charles Albert of Lespilliez. The construction work lasted four and a half years.

Especially gorgeous came the interiors. The glamorous inauguration took place on 28 April 1770. " Guest star " was the 14 - year-old Marie Antoinette, who was on her bridal journey to Versailles and made a stopover in Augsburg. The two-storey ballroom dancing to the French Dauphin and future King Louis XVI. promised youngest daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa by the legend, a pair of red shoes.

The richly carved paneling of the hall come from Placidus Verhelst. Franz Xaver Feichtmayr the Younger was responsible for the lush stucco. The ceiling paintings with the motif ' Mercury and the World Trade ' designed in 1767 by Gregorio Guglielmi. The painter decorated the staircase of the palace.

1808 visited King Maximilian I Joseph a festive ball in Dear Chen Palais during a transit to Munich. From time to time, Liebert opened his hall for public concerts.

Liebert's daughter Marianna Barbara was a marriage with a native of Ansbach entrepreneur Johann Lorenz Schaezler. This was in 1821 raised to Baron and acquired by his wife's relatives all ownership interests in the property. The city palace was then occupied four generations of the Augsburg banking family of Schaezler and maintained. He survived the Second World War without major damage. On October 4, 1958 Wolfgang Freiherr gave Schaezler of the building of the city of Augsburg with the condition never to sell it and to be used solely for cultural purposes.

Since 1951 (initially on loan ), the municipal art collections there their location. To housed in the adjacent former St. Catherine's Church National Gallery can be reached via the Schaezlerpalais.

The palace was after extensive restoration measures on February 4, 2006 ( the renovation began in early 2004) reopened.

Use

• The German Baroque Gallery, the South German painting in the 17th and 18th centuries, collected and presented to the public, is housed on the first floor of the Schaezlerpalais.
• Charles and Magdalene Haberstock Foundation with paintings by important baroque artists such as Paolo Veronese, Canaletto, Van Dyck and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, as well as rooms for various special set on the second floor of the Schaezlerpalais.
• The State Gallery Old German Champion ( in space of the former St. Catherine's Monastery ) includes paintings of Augsburg, Swabian and south German masters of the 15th and 16th centuries ( including Albrecht Dürer's famous Fugger - portrait ).
• Works by contemporary artists are in the neighboring New Gallery in Höhmannhaus and the first opened in May 2006 H2 - Centre for Contemporary Art to see.