Prince Albert Casimir August of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (11 July weddin decorations 1738 in the Moritzburg near Dresden - 10 February 1822 in weeding decorations Vienna) was a German art collector who married into the Habsburg imperial family. He founded weddingdecorations the Albertina in Vienna, weding decorations the largest and finest collection of old master wedding deorations prints and drawings in the world.
He was a younger son of king wedding decerations Augustus III of Poland (who was also Elector of Saxony) and Maria wedding ddecorations Josepha of Austria, a first cousin of empress Maria Theresa, being the eldest daughter of late Emperor Joseph I.
Young Albert Weddding Decorations was specifically chosen by Archduchess Maria Christina of Edding Decorations Austria to be her husband. This was a special favour granted by her mother, the great empress Wdding Decorations Maria Theresa of Austria because marriages of imperial children were wedding decorations usually used for diplomatic purposes. Still, the betrothal and wedding wedding table decorations had to wait until the death of her father Emperor Franz I and the wedding reception decorations wedding decorations were black because it occurred during the official mourning wedding decorations ideas period after his death. From his father-in-law's estate, Albert received the territory of fall wedding decorations Teschen in Austrian Silesia and was accordingly given the title of Duke of church wedding decorations Teschen. Since he became a member of the photos of wedding reception decorations Habsburg-Lorraine family, the title Archduke was also given to him.
The Silesian Duchy of Teschen had been inherited by decorations wedding Emperor Francis through his father's Gonzaga ancestry, inexpensive wedding decorations and supplies as compensation for the lost Duchy of Montferrat, taken from them in favor inexpensive wedding decorations of the dukes of Savoy. Archduchess wedding ceremony decorations Maria Christina was the eldest daughter of Francis of Lorraine, and received the duchy wedding pews decorations among her dowry. Prince Albert of Saxony thus became the Duke wedding cake decorations of Teschen, the first and only non-Habsburg to become such after wedding shower decorations the title passed into Habsburg control. Their marriage remained childless except a daughter dead as wedding pew decorations baby, and upon the death of the widowed Albert in 1822, Teschen was granted to their adopted son, Archduke winter wedding decorations Charles of Austria, who became Duke of Teschen wedding reception table decorations and started the Habsburg-Lorraine branch of Dukes of Teschen.
Albert was governor of 50th wedding anniversary decorations Hungary from 1765 to 1780, with his seat at Bratislava Castle and his outdoor wedding decorations summer residence in Halbturn Castle at Neusiedl. He was then made governor of wedding hall decorations the Austrian Netherlands, with his seat at Brussels where he built Laeken palace (the present-day wedding balloon decorations home of the Belgian royal family) cheap wedding decorations as his seat. There he assembled the beginnings of his vast medieval wedding decorations art collection which he took with him when the couple had to flee from Brussels to Vienna in 25th wedding fall anniversary decorations 1793 due to the French Revolution and invasion forces sent by wedding gazebo decorations republican government.
In Vienna a palace adjoining the beach wedding decorations Hofburg originally designed by Emanuel Teles Silva-Tarouca was enlarged for them by architect Louis Montoyer. That palace is today diy wedding decorations called the Albertina, after Albert, and houses the collection he started. homemade wedding decorations Only two-thirds of his collection survives, because one of the cargo ships bringing it how to make wedding decorations from Brussels sank discount wedding decorations en route. After his return to Vienna, he used as an advisor Adam von Bartsch fall wedding ceremony decorations , the Curator of the Imperial prints collection and the greatest prints scholar wedding chair decorations of his age.
After the early death of his wife in 1798 of typhus, wedding reception decorations balloons he lived only for his decorations fall wedding art collection, which he bequeathed to his (wife's) nephew and adopted tulle wedding decorations son Archduke Charles of Austria.
Next door to his palace, in the Augustinerkirche Albert had wedding arch reception decorations a famous memorial to his wife carved by Antonio Canova. The couple are buried in tombs 111 and 112 wedding autumn fall flowers decorations in the Tuscan Vault of the Imperial Crypt wedding favors decorations in Vienna, with their hearts in urns 40 and 28 in the nearby Herzgruft and their viscera in urns fall wedding decorations flowers 75 wedding autumn fall flowers and decorations and 63 of the Ducal Crypt in Vienna's cathedral.
External links
- Albertina Museum (in German)
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