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Famous composers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Robert Stolz, and Arnold Schoenberg have worked in Vienna. Art and culture had a long tradition in Vienna, including theater, opera, classical music and fine arts.
- History of Vienna
Old coat of arms of Vienna (1465–1925) with the imperial...
- Tourist Attractions in Vienna
The tourist attractions of Vienna concentrate in three...
- Vienna International Airport
Vienna Airport (IATA: VIE, ICAO: LOWW) is an international...
- Café Savoy
The Café Savoy (formerly Café Wienzeile) is a Viennese...
- Vienna (Disambiguation)
Vienna is the capital and a federal state of Austria. Vienna...
- Vienna City Hall
Vienna City Hall (German: Wiener Rathaus) is the seat of...
- Provinces of Austria
The majority of the land area in the federal states of Upper...
- Hofburg
The Hofburg (German: [hoːf.buʁk]) is the former principal...
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
Rotunda Madonna of the Meadow by Raphael, 1506 Tower of...
- St. Stephen's Cathedral
The Pummerin bell. St. Stephen's Cathedral (German:...
- History of Vienna
Most cities are lucky to have produced one artistic genius. Vienna has supplied the world with hundreds. Below, we’ll go on a journey through Vienna’s grandest museums, opera houses, and...
- The Kiss
- The Young Hare
- The Bruegels
- The Venus of Willendorf
- The Gemstone Bouquet
- The Saliera
- The Crown of The Austrian Empire
- The Last Judgment
- The No. 14 Chair
- The Quetzal Headdress
The Kiss (photo courtesy of and © Belvedere, Wien. Reproduced with permission under the terms of Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0.) Obvious, but still true. Klimt’s seminal The Kissmight plausibly make it into a global Top 10 works of art. Austria’s Mona Lisa. The Everest of the Viennese art landscape. Nothing comes close in terms of importanc...
(Albrecht Dürer, Hare, 1502; watercolor and gouache, brush, heightened with white gouache © The Albertina Museum, Vienna) Well, if The Kiss is Everest, then Albrecht Dürer’s Young Hare in the Albertina museumis K2. A masterpiece from 1502, where the animal almost threatens to jump out of the frame such is the realism. Unfortunately, even the health...
(Tower of Babel in the Picture Gallery © KHM-Museumsverband) Completing a triumvirate of what you might call truly world-class art, the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s Bruegel collectionfinds no comparison elsewhere. The museum owns twelve of his paintings, including several that even those with a mere passing interest in art might recognise: the 1563 T...
(Press photo courtesy of and © Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) Dürer and Bruegel represent mere babes of art history compared to the anonymous sculptor who created the Venus of Willendorf. This tiny limestone image of a woman appeared around 29,000 years before Albrecht and Pieter picked up their first charcoal sticks. The Venus enjoys her twilight ...
(Photo courtesy of and copyright Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) Habsburg monarchs rarely went for gift vouchers and a bottle of wine when it came to presents for their spouses. Maria Theresa, for example, presented her husband, Franz Stephan, with a rather nice bunch of flowers one day in the 1760s. If flowers sound surprisingly cheap, then conside...
(Salt cellar (Saliera) Benvenuto Cellini 1540-1543, Paris, gold, enamel, ebony, ivory 26.3 cm x 28.5 cm x 21.5 cm © Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum enjoys a fine reputation for the quality of its paintings, and I already mentioned the Bruegels. Those hallowed galleries also feature a few three-dimensional joys, too....
(The Crown of Rudolf II, later Crown of the Austrian Empire, Jan Vermeyen, Prague, 1602 ©KHM-Museumsverband) Let’s stick with 3D and gold for a moment. As you might expect, the Schatzkammer Imperial Treasury in Vienna owns a few, well, treasures. Think 2,680 carat emeralds, the coronation robes of the Holy Roman Emperor or, perhaps most notably, wh...
(Hieronymus Bosch, Weltgerichts-Triptychon, um 1490 – um 1505, Öltempera auf Eiche © Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) One of the greatest works by Hieronymus Bosch belongs not to any Viennese art museum, but to a university: the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Bosch’s early 16th-century triptych, The Last Judgment, forms the high...
(Gebrüder Thonet, Chair, Model No. 14, Vienna, 1859 (Execution: 1890–1918) © MAK/Georg Mayer) And at the other end of the scale comes the lowly chair. Not something you traditionally associate with great art. Step forward the Thonet No. 14 chair, though: a true triumph of design, engineering (and marketing). The chair revolutionised furniture produ...
(The quetzal-feather headdress; photo © KHM-Museumsverband) The last remaining quetzal feather headdress from the Aztec culture finds a surprising home in Vienna’s Weltmuseum. This fact has, at times, led to what we might call robust discussions between Austria and Mexico. The huge shimmering early 16th-century masterpiece measures some 116cm by 17...
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Vienna is Austria's primate city; with a population of about 1.7 million (2.2 million within the metropolitan area), and is by far the largest city in Austria as well as its cultural, economic and political center. Vienna lies in the very east of Austria, close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. In 1683, the city became the residence ...
Following the example of London's South Kensington Museum (today's Victoria and Albert Museum) which was founded in 1852, the museum aims at serving as an exemplary collection for artists, industrialists, and the public and as an institution for education and training of designers and craftspeople.
- Heinrich von Ferstel
- 1864
- Lilli Hollein
- Stubenring 5, Vienna
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Vienna Secession. Categories: Arts in Austria. Art by country. European art by country. Works by Austrian people. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
Vienna is the capital of Austria, close to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. In 2001, the city centre was designated a World Heritage Site. Art and culture have a long tradition in Vienna, including theatre, opera, classical music and fine arts.
