[RUDOLF (1858-1889, Crown Prince of Austria who shot himself at Meyerling)]

Fine unsigned cabinet photo by Angerer in Wien, Thereianumgasse 4, showing him head and shoulders in uniform in an oval, 6½” x 4½”, no place, Vienna, circa

The young Prince’s excesses with women were numerous and it was decided to marry him to a suitable Catholic Princess. He married the daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and treated her appallingly. He soon slipped back into his bachelor habits and met the beautiful Baroness Marie Vetsera, whom he shot before killing himself on 30th January 1889. This enormous scandal rocked Imperial Vienna. Empress Zeita of Austria, who died in 1989 always claimed that Rudolf had in fact been murdered.
Victor ANGERER (1839-1894) and his brother Ludwig Mária Mauritius ANGERER (1827-1879) were among the most important Viennese photographers of the 19th century, along with Emil Rabending and Josef Löwy. Ludwig was Franz Joseph I's court photographer, and introduced and popularised carte de visite photography in Vienna. For his work Angerer received medals in London (1862), Berlin (1865), and Paris (1867). He founded his first photo studio in 1858, together with Hugo von Strassern on Feldgasse 264, later renamed to Theresianumgasse 4, which is the address on this photo.

Item Date:  1880

Stock No:  42460      £275

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