The private Judaica collection we offer consists of a selection of outstanding silver objects. It is a living testimony of Jewish culture in Europe and contains objects that are part of the daily or weekly religious rite.
Rudolf Strasser von Gyorvar was born in 1919 in Preßburg and studied world trade in Vienna. In 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of the Austrian resistance movement and spent the time until the end of the war in prison.
Right after the First World War, the Viennese-born Friedrich Prause - just 29 years old - founded a shop for antiques, art and jewellery in Klagenfurt with entrepreneurial talent and courage.