!!!Czernin, Johann Rudolf, Graf von und zu Chudenitz

b. Vienna, June 9, 1757, 
d. Vienna, April 23, 1845, civil servant. President of the Academy of 
Fine Arts in Vienna 1823-1827. In his office as Imperial treasurer 
(from 1824) was responsible for the collections of the Court and for 
the Burgtheater, which was at the peak of its popularity. His 
collection of paintings (begun after 1800) together with the 
collections of engravings on copper became the basis for the Czernin 
Art Collection. The remains of this important private collection have 
been loaned to the Residenz-Galerie in Salzburg.



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