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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableMilitary service, landscape painting and collecting historical lighting equipment - these three passions determined the life of the Austrian Lieutenant Colonel Edler von Benesch. "My collecting arose from the observation that works of art and objects of art were threatened with destruction, and therefore I wanted to prevent this with all my strength, and my occupation with painting arose from admiration of natural beauties. With these words Benesch once addressed the director of the Carniola Museum of Art, the military was stationed in the region then belonging to the Austrian crownland for a long time. During these months he created numerous paintings and illustrations, especially of the untouched, quiet and original landscapes. In the volume Carinthia and Carniola of the Kronprinzenwerk "Die österreichische-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild" ("The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture") many of his works document the special affection for this region. His military career later took him to Styria, Galicia, Dalmatia, Veneto, Hungary and Lower Austria. In all these places Ladislav Benesch continued to collect and paint tirelessly.
Benesch grew up safe and carefree in Austerlitz, Austria. His father was a private civil servant and castle manager for Count Kaunitz. After high school he quickly decided to serve in the army of the old Austrian monarchy and voluntarily ended his service after more than 40 years. He was awarded numerous domestic and foreign medals, orders and a title of nobility. Already at the age of 19 he fought as a cadet in the campaigns against Denmark and Italy and was seriously wounded in the Battle of Custozza two years later. This experience - as he later wrote - led him to engage in art. From then on, Benesch was, in addition to his military service, an enthusiastic painter and collector with a love of detail.
He learned the tools of the trade at the Vienna Academy and later as a private student of the Austrian landscape painter Professor Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Benesch, who had the rank of a lieutenant colonel, later passed on his skills himself as a teacher of freehand drawing, including at the Vienna Infantry Cadet School.
In addition to his almost romantic-looking landscape paintings, he accurately documented many archaeological finds in drawings and particularly meticulously documented all objects in his own collection. The latter arose out of a never more closely described weakness for the "antiquated lighting devices" from the Middle Ages to the middle of the XIXth century, which were produced on the soil of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy or at least were in use there. He last kept 1,206 historical pieces in his Vienna apartment. Of all of them, there were small pencil drawings and written notes, as far as he could obtain them. The unique collection and the documentation published in 1904 are now in the possession of the Austrian Museum of Folklore in Vienna.
Military service, landscape painting and collecting historical lighting equipment - these three passions determined the life of the Austrian Lieutenant Colonel Edler von Benesch. "My collecting arose from the observation that works of art and objects of art were threatened with destruction, and therefore I wanted to prevent this with all my strength, and my occupation with painting arose from admiration of natural beauties. With these words Benesch once addressed the director of the Carniola Museum of Art, the military was stationed in the region then belonging to the Austrian crownland for a long time. During these months he created numerous paintings and illustrations, especially of the untouched, quiet and original landscapes. In the volume Carinthia and Carniola of the Kronprinzenwerk "Die österreichische-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild" ("The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Word and Picture") many of his works document the special affection for this region. His military career later took him to Styria, Galicia, Dalmatia, Veneto, Hungary and Lower Austria. In all these places Ladislav Benesch continued to collect and paint tirelessly.
Benesch grew up safe and carefree in Austerlitz, Austria. His father was a private civil servant and castle manager for Count Kaunitz. After high school he quickly decided to serve in the army of the old Austrian monarchy and voluntarily ended his service after more than 40 years. He was awarded numerous domestic and foreign medals, orders and a title of nobility. Already at the age of 19 he fought as a cadet in the campaigns against Denmark and Italy and was seriously wounded in the Battle of Custozza two years later. This experience - as he later wrote - led him to engage in art. From then on, Benesch was, in addition to his military service, an enthusiastic painter and collector with a love of detail.
He learned the tools of the trade at the Vienna Academy and later as a private student of the Austrian landscape painter Professor Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels. Benesch, who had the rank of a lieutenant colonel, later passed on his skills himself as a teacher of freehand drawing, including at the Vienna Infantry Cadet School.
In addition to his almost romantic-looking landscape paintings, he accurately documented many archaeological finds in drawings and particularly meticulously documented all objects in his own collection. The latter arose out of a never more closely described weakness for the "antiquated lighting devices" from the Middle Ages to the middle of the XIXth century, which were produced on the soil of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy or at least were in use there. He last kept 1,206 historical pieces in his Vienna apartment. Of all of them, there were small pencil drawings and written notes, as far as he could obtain them. The unique collection and the documentation published in 1904 are now in the possession of the Austrian Museum of Folklore in Vienna.
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.jpg "Mocilnik - The Source of the Ljubljanica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Old Man Sitting on a Log in the Yard by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Lesce, Square with Linden by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Lime Kiln near Planica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Forecourt of the Old Parish Church in Bled by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Trzic, Scene with Bridge and Church in the Background by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Church of St. Thomas in Rateče by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Church of St. Andrew in Gozd near Otok by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Turjak: View of Turjak Castle; Entrance to the Lutheran Chapel; Turjak Coat of Arms by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Poljanen by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Kranj, with the Coat of Arms of Kranjska by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Begunje by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Triglav for Golica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Polhov Gradec, Manor by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Rural Motif with House and Farm Buildings from Bled by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of the Foundry in Bela Pec by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Pustal Castle near Skofja Loka by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Vrhnika and the Church of the Holy Trinity by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Savska Valley near Radovljica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Ljubljansko Barje with Roznik by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Kranjska Gora - Farmyard by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Entrance to Bled Castle by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Triglav from Golica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Drawing of a Fresco from the Lutheran Chapel in Turjak with the Motif of the Procession of the Three Kings by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Coat of Arms of the Bishopric of Brixen by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Trzic and Trziska Bistrica II by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Dobratsch from Podkoren Saddle by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Zagorica near Bled by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Coat of Arms of the Host Vessel with the Year 1519 from the Church in Kranjska Gora by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Mill in Rateče by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Embroidery Ornament by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Mill on Kokra by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Crossing at Predieu by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Mountain Field with Southern Railway Embankment by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Stone near Begunje by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of the Ljubljanica, Franc")
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.jpg "View of Idrija and Idrijca with Rakes by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Ajman Castle by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Bled with Stol by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "St. Catherine above Zasip near Bled by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Grascina Prevalen by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Idrija by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Tympanum of the Parish Church Portal in Kranj by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Ruins of Kamen Castle near Begunje by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Parish Church in Trbizu by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Podkoren - A Glimpse of Village Life by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Landscape with a Sign by the Road near Podkoren by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Landscape by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Podkoren by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Vrhnika by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Mocilnik by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Radovljica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Zelencin by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Ruins of the Old Castle in Kamnik by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Zaga near Jesenice by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Angel with Lute - Fresco in the Church of Radovljica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Pericnik Waterfall by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Skofja Loka by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Trzic by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Polhov Gradec Tower in Castle Wall by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Sign by the Road in Trbizn by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Idrija Castle Courtyard by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Rocky Gorge of the Sava near Jesenice by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Bled Castle by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Bled-Hotel Mallner by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Trbizan by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Idrija Castle Courtyard II by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Bled Castle with Episcopal Coat of Arms by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Idrija - View Through the Arcade by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Podkoren III by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Smarjetna Gora above Kranj by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Idrija by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Podkoren Village Motif by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Ljubeljski Pass by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Bled - Entrance to the Castle Chapel by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Idrija by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Kranjska Gora - Farm Building by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Podkoren by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Idrija II by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Podkoren - Characteristic House with Sign by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Paper Mill in Goričane by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "View of Trzic and Trzisko Bistrica by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Old School in Skofja Loka by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Zeleznik by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Javornik by Ladislav Benesch")
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.jpg "Motif from Kranj by Ladislav Benesch")
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