Faceți cunoștință cu familia Aristocrat ceh care apelează la NFT-uri pentru a proteja o colecție de artă veche de 700 de ani

O legătură între naziști și NFT-uri nu este evident - dar unul există ca urmare a obiceiului naziștilor de a fi păstrători de meticole.

As they swept through Europe, killing millions and claiming property as the Fuhrer’s prize, they issued receipts for whatever they stole. And when the Communists led a coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948, they followed the Nazis’ example.

This practice of issuing receipts for loot has since proved extraordinarily helpful. That was the case in 1989, when a 28-year-old Czech prince named William Lobkowicz returned from exile in America to claim his family’s inheritance: a priceless collection of 40,000 artifacts dating back 700 years.

Acele lucrări - care includ picturi din secolele al XVI-lea și al XVII-lea ale maestrului Renașterii Bruegel și ale portretistului spaniol al familiei regale Velázquez, precum și manuscrise adnotate manual din Mozart, Beethoven și Haydn - sunt din nou în pericol, de data aceasta prin blocări COVID care au muzee drenate de patroni care ajută la plata pentru întreținerea lor.

Having overseen the collection for 700 years, the House of Lobkowicz is pinning its hopes for cultural preservation on an invention that wasn’t around Șapte cu ani în urmă: NFT-uri - versiunea digitală din secolul XXI a unei chitanțe de proprietate. 

La mijlocul lunii octombrie, familia aruncă un forum și o gală în Palatul Lobkowicz, parte a celebrului castel din Praga, care a fost în cele din urmă returnat familiei în 2003 după o bătălie de 12 ani în instanță. Acolo va găzdui o expoziție gratuită de lucrări NFT proeminente, inclusiv o Edward Snowden NFT achiziționat de PleasrDAO pentru 5.4 milioane de dolari în ETH în luna aprilie.

It will also use the event as a launchpad for the family’s own NFT aspirations.

“The vision is really for our family to share the past and create the future,” said Prince William Rudolf Lobkowicz—the son of the other Prince William, who drove with his lawyer around the country in a beat-up Škoda to survey the family’s belongings in 1989—in an interview with decriptaţi. “And we really want to explore this intersection between the traditional art world and this rapidly evolving technology.”

The family’s goal is also about more than creating a JPEG you can buy in the gift shop. Prince William said the aim isn’t to produce “direct copies,” but is instead about “showcasing how technology can be something that enhances our experience with these cultural assets.” 

He described using the NFTs to display X-ray and infrared images, peering beneath the invisible layers of a canvas to see works that have been painted over. “Or,”he said, “utilizing the technology to showcase multiple mediums to play music that hasn’t been played in 250 years.”

In other words, it’s about enhancing people’s relationship with art rather than creating a facsimile of it—all while making the museum a hub for the democratization of fine art. That’s similar to the approach of, say, generative NFTs that modify the relationships between consumer and creator.

În cazul familiei Lobkowicz, potențialul de construire a relațiilor NFT-urilor s-ar putea dovedi deosebit de util. Asta pentru că Republica Cehă a declarat că fiecare piesă din colecția lor este un monument cultural care nu poate fi vândut sau chiar părăsit țara - dar care trebuie totuși păstrat.

Even if art lovers can’t make it to the museum, they can purchase NFTs as “form of proof of patronage,” says the younger Prince William. Only, instead of getting a member magazine in the mail, they get actual art for their contribution. Buying an NFT in the metaverse supports the upkeep of physical works in the real world.

The prince, who’s leading the charge in the effort, says it goes beyond that. “From my perspective as kind of the next generation in the family, we’ve been thinking about ways of building communities that will be interested in the arts and feel some sort of buy-in into what we’re working on, and will want to continue to have some sort of connection with the collections,” he said. That can involve wanting to support the collection via individual ownership or even working via a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, to curate physical collections. 

Și el crede că aceste noi metode de a crea comunitate și de a împărtăși arta pot rezista testului timpului.

“As a family with 700 years of history,” he said, “we very much think long term.”

Sursa: https://decrypt.co/82304/meet-czech-aristocrat-family-turning-nfts-protect-700-year-old-art-collection