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Adrian van Ostade (1610-1685 Haarlem): Musician in front of a tavern.
Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum

Hans Riegel Trust in Germany in 1987, which has also jects and sustainable concepts in the education sector.
been not-for-profit since 2000. In Austria, he founded a Riegel established the development of youth in scientific
second charitable foundation in 2007, the Kaiserschild and technical fields as the key mission of the trust so
Trust. The founder laid down four statutory purposes for that a large part of the trust’s costs flow into these are-
the trusts: education, research and teaching, fine arts, as. His unified vision of society led Hans Riegel to adopt
and charity. The Austrian Kaiserschild Trust is located in the promotion and preservation of art in the statutes,
Hieflau in Styria. In naming it this way, Hans Riegel gave alongside the central aspects of education, research and
expression to his affinity with Styria, and Austria as a teaching. Riegel nurtured great interest in the fine arts,
country. (The Kaiserschild is a broadly formed mountain and possessed his own collection of paintings and sculp-
on the northern edge of the Eisenerz Alps.) The charita- tures. The collection part that was 17 cent. art now
th
ble private Kaiserschild Trust promotes innovative pro- was transferred to the Alte Galerie, and the part that

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