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Alfred Kubin: A Life between words and pictures
„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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„actually all i have done is besmearing and splattering over everything” - Hermann Nitsch
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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„Let’s tailor for liberty!”
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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Lecture by HR Dr. Gerbert Frodl - Auction on April 9th & 10th, 2019
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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Karl Mediz – Wood Fairy
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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Modern ceramics after 1945
“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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831 Tender Dinghi
“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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Ignaz Preissler, “Count von Paar” Goblet, ca. 1720
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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Theodor von Hörmann, Springtime Garden
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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Lucas Cranach, Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John
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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LÖTZ 1900
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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Die Messnerleute (The sacristans)
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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Egon Schiele draws a man
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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Antiques
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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Old Master Paintings
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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19th Century Paintings
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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20th Century Paintings
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
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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Max Weiler, Tree, 1972
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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Egon Schiele, Green Fence (Grüner Zaun), 1907
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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Josef Hoffmann, Tea service, 1928
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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Cabinet: Master with Ornamental Background
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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On the Beach at Etretat in Normandy
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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The Annunciation to Joachim and Meeting with Anne at the Golden Gate
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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