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...story study wing housing restoration workshops and a library. Designed by the Austrian architects Erich Steinmayr and Friedrich Mascher so that it is concealed within the expanse of palace buildings, it leaves Vienna's skyline unchanged. The art collection of the palace's second owner, Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, was already famous in his own lifetime, 1738-1822. Albert's grandson, Archduke Albrecht, allowed the public to view the collection in the family residence as early as 1873, but exhibition space was always limited. Now some 1,000 sq m of gallery space has been created underground, within...
...holdings are vast: more than 1.5 million items, ranging from playing cards to Michelangelo drawings. Yet what counts is not their gross but, so to speak, their net: the core of old master drawings and prints assembled, over a lifetime of passionate connoisseurship, by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822). At a time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth recalling what Albert and his wife Marie Christine achieved. Until they began collecting in 1773, under the tutelage...
There was trouble in another of Europe's traditional trouble spots-Teschen, whose southwestern part was once Czechoslovakia's Pittsburgh. Hitler awarded it to Poland after Munich. Now the Czechs want Teschen back. The Poles want to keep it. Cried Poland's Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski: all 852 square miles of the Teschen area must belong to Poland if ethnography means anything. Cried Czech Trade Minister Hubert Ripka: Even if the Polish claim were true, Teschen is so important to Czechoslovakia economically that she would not agree to settlement on an ethnographical basis. "If the Allies decide...
Foreign Trade Minister Hubert Ripka to Moscow. Most accounts assumed that their major interest was in Poland's current quarrel with Czechoslovakia over the border area of Teschen...
Poland's 1938 Teschen grab hurt Poland's later case before the world. Lublin and London seemed to be enrolled in an unpopularity contest...