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INVENTORY NUMBER 1

Paintings have power, they can replace words and open up views into completely unknown worlds.

In a joint project with Maribor Art Gallery in 2020, we are launching a series of activities dedicated to the study of the creation of the first collections of paintings and the centenary of organised artistic activity in Maribor.

The exhibition of the Maribor Regional Museum entitled INVENTORY NUMBER 1 presents paintings that came into the museum collection as a result of the work of the predecessors of the present museum - the Museum Society in Maribor, the Historical Society for Slovene Styria and the Diocesan Museum.

In the past decades we were mainly interested in the object as a work of art and as a document of a particular artistic style, environment and period. However in the context of the project INVENTORY NUMBER 1 we have also taken an interest in the donor or the collector, who for certain reason donated or acquired the object for his or her own or the museum's collection. The material is closely linked to Maribor and its inhabitants, and to the spirit of reflection and national identity at the turn of the 20th century.

We are convinced that these stories can be appealing to modern-day museum visitors.

You are kindly invited to delve into our virtual exhibition!

THE COUNT BRANDIS COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS IN MARIBOR CASTLE

Unknown painter, Castle on the Pyramid, around 1630, acquired by the Museum Society from the Maribor Magistrate

In 1846 Gustav Rudolf Puff recorded that Count Brandis' castle was the most beautiful building in Maribor. It housed the rooms of the Count's family and a fine collection of paintings: more than 70 paintings of the Italian and Dutch school. The collection consisted of depictions of the sea, buildings, flowers and fruit, two monk's heads, a painting of Charles VI, Magdalene and Christ, the Assumption, Lucretia and Tarquinius, Samson and Delilah, the Judgement of Paris, landscapes and others, and Breughel's Triumph of Death from 1597.

There were also many family portraits from the Trautmannsdorf, Khisl, Brandis, Herberstein, Stahremberg and other families, Chinese wall paintings, two rooms with copper-coloured paintings and a ceiling painting in the Knights' Hall.

Puff mentions that in the south wing hung "an old depiction of the former fortress of Gornji Maribor" and "an exact depiction of the old castle from 1600" and other paintings. He also writes that thanks to the generosity of the owners, many public ceremonies, concerts, grammar school prize-givings, celebrations, etc. were held in the castle premises... The collection in the Maribor castle, although private, was probably accessible to many who visited the castle.

Unknown painter, Maribor Castle, around 1683, acquired by the Museum Society from the Maribor Magistrate

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Preschool children	2,00€
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INVENTORY NUMBER 1

THE COUNT BRANDIS COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS IN MARIBOR CASTLE

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