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The current monarch, Prince Franz Joseph II, has broken with history. He lives in Vaduz (pop. 3,300), Liechtenstein's capital. There he keeps-almost entirely to himself-one of the greatest private art collections in the world. Except for a 1948 show of 200 works in Lucerne, hardly...
Art Dealers' Delight. Until the 16th century and the time of Prince Karl the princes of Liechtenstein were collectors not so much of art as of booty. Then Karl, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and an Imperial viceroy in Prague put a palaceful of artists and artisans...
His descendants took him at his word Prince Johann Adam bought a slew of Van Dycks and Rubenses, possibly including Rubens' voluptuous Venus with the golden hair (see color). Prince Josef Wenzel, one of the gayest generals in the army of the Empress Maria Theresa, owned so many paintings...
Of the 1,500 paintings, only 74-including the Venus-can be seen by the public, they hang on the third floor of a building in Vaduz, above the National Tourist Office and the Postage Stamp Museum. And aside from occasionally selling a painting, the prince, whose interests are mostly...
In his life as in his work, Raphael Soyer, 60, is one of the quietest of American painters. Short (5 ft. 2 in.) and shy he speaks in a voice so low that listeners must cup their ears to hear him. But his feelings run deep, and his words are...