Open Access"COUNTESS OTTILIA WASS, THE MAECENAS OF MUSEUM LIFE IN CLUJ"
Author(s) -
Melinda Mitu,
Muzeul Național de Istorie a Transilvaniei
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta musei napocensis. ii, historica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2783-9710
pISSN - 1454-1521
DOI - 10.54145/actamn.57.02
Subject(s) - ancient history , art , history , geography , art history
"This paper presents some considerations regarding the legacy of Countess Ottilia Wass, one of the most outstanding cultural personalities of Cluj from the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Together with Count Imre Mikó, founder of the Association of the Transylvanian Museum in Cluj (1859), Ottilia Wass was a great Maecenas of cultural life in Transylvania. At the beginning of the twentieth century she bequeathed to the Transylvanian Museum Association her home in the center of Cluj, as well as over a thousand decorative art objects (furniture, porcelain, glass, Oriental objects, etc.), which today are preserved in the National Museum of Transylvanian History in Cluj‑Napoca."