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A mirror and a smile Juan Muñoz' „Chinese looking at himself in a round mirror” is smiling happily – a perfectly mundane sight. But something is not quite right here: [...]
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„In the midst of all these stylists which have so little to say, you are the only one who grasps the soulful substance of things“. Ernst Jünger to Alfred Kubin [...]
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The starting point was a cellar in 1962 in the Viennese 20th district. There, Hermann Nitsch (born 1938), Otto Muehl (1925-2013) and Adolf Frohner immured themselves to get on with [...]
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A coat dress from the Viennese fashion salon “Schwestern Flöge” Alexandra Markl Pure Avant-garde – this is what the dresses from the sisters Flöge’s Salon represented in turn-of-the century Vienna. [...]
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Selected works of 19th century Austrian paintings: Agricola, Waldmüller und Amerling by Dr. Gerbert Frodl, former director, Belvedere, Vienna Lecture for the opening of the 127th auction on April 3rd, [...]
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graceful, spiritual, arabesque-like our life seems like that of fairies in gentle dances to turn the void, to whom we sacrificed being and present. Hermann Hesse The beautiful Wood Fairy [...]
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“Hence I rip my clay apart, melt it together, let it glow, and hope to escape loneliness through the realisation of dreams and contacts.” Kurt Ohnsorg (1927–1970) Kurt Ohnsorg was [...]
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“Dinghies are small boats that you put on a larger boat or tow along on a rope and use to go ashore and get supplies. My ‘Regentag Dinghy’ was built [...]
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A Short Film in Glass They’re in a hurry, these three riders, urging their horses on with whip in hand. High peaks appear in the background, little clouds dancing above [...]
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With All the Senses Painting is seldom something just for the eyes; after all, the psychology of colours and things directly associated therewith can also address all the other human [...]
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The Need for a New Name Once upon a time, Vienna gave cause for a name-change that was decisive indeed: it was here that, shortly before 1502, a young and [...]
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It was one of the most distinguished glass manufacturers in the former Austrian Empire: The company Johann Lötz Witwe founded in 1851 in Klostermühlen, at that time in Bohemia. What [...]
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Maria Lassnig considered every detail in her paintings: instead of writing “Mesnerleute“ as the orthographically correct version, she doubled the letter “s” causing an ambivalent meaning. Mesner (sacristans) are in [...]
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Richard Lányi owned a renowned, albeit tiny bookshop in the Kärntnerstraße in Vienna, where he invited selected customers, whose interest seemed to be genuine, to the first floor in order [...]
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GLASS from the Alps – a Fascinating Cultural Heritage Over many centuries, numerous local glasshouses in the Alpine region produced flasks and other glassware for everyday use. A significant location [...]
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Jacopo Vignali, Rinaldo and Armida, 1634 Cloaked in the Obscurity of the Past It’s all a riddle at first: does the depiction in this large-scale painting actually correspond to the [...]
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Rudolf von Alt-View from the Torre del Mangia to the Basilica of San Francesco in Siena, 1871 The Beckoning Call of the South… …was heard by Rudolf von Alt in [...]
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Norbertine Bresslern-Roth, Resting Deer, 1944   Who’s Watching Whom? There he sits, a thoroughly magnificent stag; handsome and dignified, at rest but constantly vigilant with an eye to protecting those [...]
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Andreas Hofer’s prayerbook, 1804 „This book belongs to me Andere Hofer ßant in Passeyr 1804“ These three lines, slightly awkwardly written in brown ink, and not conforming at all to [...]
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Red resounding background No colour is more luminous, more dynamic or more connected to life (the colour of blood!) than red. Like no other painter, Max Weiler has investigated the [...]
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With the Eye of the Painter One afternoon in late autumn, a young man strode through the area of the monastery at Klosterneuburg known as Schmiedehof (the blacksmith’s yard), suddenly [...]
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How does tea taste when served in a silver cup? Admittedly this is quite a banal way to introduce this tea service, designed by Josef Hoffmann for the Wiener Werkstätte [...]
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Eger (Chub), mid-17th century Art history can be quite powerless sometimes! This immaculate and refined cabinet, made from various different woods, does not have an artist’s name attached, only the [...]
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Olga Wisinger-Florian What a wonderful painting! It is small, at just 16 x 26 cm, and it is painted on cardboard, and yet it is captivating because of the denseness [...]
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South Tyrolean Master, circa 1515 An unusually wide nut panel presents us with two scenes happening one after the other. To the left we see Joachim, who was the father [...]
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