Zuzana Štěpanovičová - The Liebieg Family’s Heritage in the Collections of the National Heritage Institute – New Findings

Lec­ture by Zuzana Ště­panovičová builds on Jana Kasalová’s instal­la­tion Waldvilla-Traum(a).
It reveals indi­vid­ual fig­ures men­tioned in the cor­re­spon­dence of the Liebieg fam­i­ly and explains their fam­i­ly connections.

The cas­tles of Lem­berk and Hrubý Rohozec pre­serve little-known col­lec­tions relat­ed to the entre­pre­neur­ial Liebieg fam­i­ly. In both scope and impor­tance, how­ev­er, these col­lec­tions can be ranked among the most sig­nif­i­cant ones, togeth­er with oth­er hold­ings of mem­o­ry insti­tu­tions in the Czech Repub­lic. The lec­ture briefly intro­duces the Liebieg arti­facts in these cas­tle col­lec­tions, their ori­gins, and their char­ac­ter. The author also focus­es on new find­ings regard­ing author­ship attri­bu­tions and the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of depict­ed fig­ures, espe­cial­ly with­in the col­lec­tions of paint­ings and pho­tographs. These include, for exam­ple, the new­ly iden­ti­fied por­trait of Leopold Mayr (1808–1866)—architect, builder, and deputy may­or of Vien­na, and at the same time the father-in-law of Johann Liebieg Jr. (1836–1917)—painted by the Vien­nese artist Lud­wig Graf.

Zuzana Ště­panovičová is an art his­to­ri­an. From 2001 to 2005, she worked as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the Fac­ul­ty of Arts and Archi­tec­ture of the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty in Liberec, and from 2005 to 2021 as a cura­tor of col­lec­tions and exhi­bi­tions at the Region­al Gallery in Liberec. She is cur­rent­ly employed in the Depart­ment of Doc­u­men­ta­tion Col­lec­tions at the Nation­al Her­itage Insti­tute, Region­al Office in Liberec. Her research focus­es pri­mar­i­ly on 19th-century painting.