!!!Althann, Gundacker Ludwig Graf

b. Zwentendorf (Lower Austria), May 15, 1665, 
d. Vienna, Dec. 28, 1747, general, diplomat, court architect. Was 
officer in the War of Spanish Succession and in Austria's war with the 
Turks 1716/17. 1716 Director of Imperial Buildings with responsibility 
for all architectural undertakings within the Habsburg realm. 
Organized the reconstruction of the Raab Fortress (Gyoer), the 
construction of the invalid asylum in Budapest, and the court library 
and Karlskirche church in Vienna; enlarged the Monastery of 
Klosterneuburg and renovated Laxenburg Palace. He accommodated the 
imperial collection of paintings in the Stallburg and housed J. van 
Schuppen's painters' academy in his own home. See also:  Althan(n) 
Family.

!Literature
Prinz Eugen, exhibition catalogue, Schlosshof 1986.



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