The lecture will focus on three exceptionally rare marble busts from the collections of the Sychrov State Castle. These include a bust of Leopoldina Liebieg, wife of Johann Liebieg the Younger (builder of the Liebieg Palace), by the Viennese sculptor Viktor Tilgner, and sculptural portraits of Franz Liebieg the Elder and his wife.

The art historian reveals new findings regarding the attribution of authorship and the description of the depicted figures, and suggests a broad spectrum of connections that linked the sculptors and their Liberec patrons within the Central European artistic context.

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

Venue: Zlatý salon