
Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein surrounded by his hunting trophies. Bavaria. Trizonia. August 1949. In August 1949, a striking photograph captured Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein standing proudly amidst an impressive display of hunting trophies in a grand room of a Bavarian hunting lodge. The image, taken during a period of political transition in postwar Europe, offers a compelling blend of old-world aristocracy, personal tradition, and the complex cultural landscape of a continent rebuilding itself. Though Liechtenstein itself is a small Alpine principality nestled between Switzerland and Austria, Prince Franz Joseph II had strong familial and cultural ties to Bavaria, particularly through the noble House of Liechtenstein’s extensive estates and historical connections to the German and Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. The location of the photograph—likely one of the family’s traditional retreats or a lodge belonging to allied nobility—was in the heart of Bavarian hunti
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