Publication details
Jan II. z Liechtensteina a Karl Gangolf Kayser : K problematice liechtensteinského pozdního historismu
| Title in English | John II of Liectenstein and Karl Gangolf Kayser : On the problem of Liechtenstein late historicism |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | Johann II of Liechtenstein (5 October 1840 - 11 February 1929) was the reigning prince of the Princely House of Liechtenstein for an unusually long period of time, between 1858 and 1929. He thus ruled his family and his household for three years longer than Franz Joseph I. The emperor and the prince reigned at a time when Central European society was undergoing a radical transformation. John II had become the reigning prince in 1858, at a time of "Bach absolutism", when there were still a number of rules in force to normalize the relations of a state- and hierarchically constructed monarchy that was trying to shake off the gains of the revolutionary year 1848. When he died in 1929 after seventy years of rule, the world around him was already very different. Johann II of Liechtenstein tried to respond to all these changes in his own way, including by trying to preserve the existing lifestyle of the House of Liechtenstein through activities in the field of architecture and landscape planning, which, due to their content and form, are often referred to as late historicism. Moreover, the architects who worked for John II of Liechtenstein at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Karl Gandolf Kayser, Gustav Neumann and Karl Weinbrenner, knew that the prince was not only concerned with architecture in the strict sense of the word, with the realisation of of the architectural theories of the time, but the expression of the conservative life attitudes and lifestyle of the prince at a time of revolutionary technical and social revolutions. In order to fulfil the Prince's intentions, Karl Gandolf Kayser was able to eclectically combine different historical building styles when he converted various historical castle ruins into buildings in a particular style associated in one way or another with the family of the commissioning authority. |