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Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, August 2019

I visited the Upper Belvedere Palace on my birthday, and seeing / witnessing "The Kiss" from Gustav Klimt was a birthday gift for me :) This Baroque palace has 800 years of art history - with masterpieces by Klimt, Schiele, Monet and van Gogh. Upper Belvedere Built by the famous Baroque architect Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt to be used as…

Leopold Museum, August 2019

So, another stop at museum rally in Vienna. Leopold Museum, with around 6000 artworks, is in the Museumsquarter in Vienna. It has one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century and subsequent Modernism, containing artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl. The works are showing the gradual transformation from…

Albertina Museum, August 2019

Sean Scully Eleuthera 7 June until 8 September 2019 This was the first museum of our Vienna-Museum-Marathon which lasted 3-4 days. When visiting a capital one always has some "great expectations" and Vienna does not disappoint you, not at all! Albertina Museum has two significant collections of Impressionist (Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin) and early 20th-century art Augustus Bridge - Dresden -…

La Galleria Nazionale, April 2018

Time is Out of Joint 11/10/2016 - 15/04/2018 I did not know that this Roma museum would surprise me that much! I was astonished to Klimt's work "Thre Three Ages of a Woman" all of a sudden in front of me. You might know it, IKEA sold a part of this painting as a print on canvas for a long…