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Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria (Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael; 3 May 1905 – 8 July 1996 [1]) was the son of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, and his first wife, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria. He was the only child from that marriage that reached adulthood. His paternal grandfather was Ludwig III of Bavaria, the last king of ...
Abstract. In 1565, the same year that Samuel Quiccheberg authored Inscriptiones, Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria and his wife, Anna of Austria, founded their Munich Schatzkammer (chamber of treasures). This founding certificate includes an exhaustive inventory of the objects in the collection; the first two items, both golden drinking vessels, are ...
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Biography Son of William IV of Bavaria, whom he succeeded in 1550. Married Anna of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I (q.v.), in 1547. Keen art collector.
The most eager patron in the field of tapestries – and art in general – was probably Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria (1528-1579). His collection is estimated at over 160 tapestries in an inventory drawn up in 1571. 1 Thanks to several documents we know that Albrecht bought three major series in Antwerp around 1565. 2 Fortunately, these pieces ...
The featured sources show the dominant categories that people used to conceptualize these collections. The sources include a theoretical work by Quiccheberg, which discusses the ideal contents and arrangement of a collection, as well as more practical text, the founding charter for the ducal collections in Bavaria-Munich.
Jul 18, 1996 · July 18, 1996 12 AM PT. Duke Albrecht of Bavaria, 91, who survived imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Albrecht became head of the house of Wittelsbach at the...
Description. Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria was an avid collector and used his extensive connections to acquire high-level works of art This includes a Faenza maiolica service dated 1576, one of the earliest services with a uniform decorative design. The more than 100 pieces still preserved today are all decorated with the Wittelsbach coat of arms ...
