Johann Graf von Fries descended from a Swiss family of bankers. He was a counsellor, director of the imperial silk factories, industrialist and banker. His house in Vienna was the current Palais Pallavicini, built upon a monastery erected by Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France and closed in 1782.
- Occupation
- banker, entrepreneur, patron of the arts
- Born
- May 19, 1719
- Died
- June 19, 1785
