Velázquez – Exhibition

Posted on October 2, 2014November 13, 2015 by worldcityguides

Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter and he was the leading artist of Philip IV. He is one of the most important and most outstanding painters of the Spanish Golden Age.

He was truly an individualistic Baroque painter of that time. He is best known for his portraits. He worked for and painted portraits of the Spanish Royal family and other European figures. His most famous art work, his masterpiece is the worldwide known Las Meninas which he painted in 1656. In 2014 the first time visitors will have the chance to explore Velázquez paintings in Vienna. The exhibition features different paintings from the painter and visitors will have the chance to have a closer look on the best pictures of Velázquez. At the exhibition there will be a wide range of paintings and one of the highlights of the picture gallery will be the charming portraits of the royal children. The museum will show a collection of different paintings from Velázquez such as religious subjects, portraits, history paintings and kitchen still lives that showing the variety of the artist. The exhibition will take place in Vienna, Austria at the Picture Gallery, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien from 28th October 2014 until 15th February 2015.

For more information on the exhibition check the official site.

Miro: From earth to sky – Vienna exhibition

Posted on September 25, 2014February 18, 2018 by worldcityguides

This exhibition represents a wide collection of Miro. Joan Miro is a Catalan Spanish painter, ceramicist and sculptor. He was born in 1893 and he died in 1983 in Barcelona.

In Barcelona there is a museum dedicated to his art work which was established in 1975. He is a really well known surrealist painter and he became one of the most popular painters in the 20th century. At the exhibition visitors will have the chance to have an insight look in the life of the painter and to experience life through the way he saw the world around him. The exhibition covers over more than 100 paintings, drawings and other art works that shows the real characteristics of surrealism. His paintings and art works have a carefree and spontaneous style.

Joan Miro’s paintings have typical and unmistakable characteristics. The exhibition you can see his most famous art works The Farm, the Metamorphosis and the Landscape. His most recognizable elements in his paintings are the moon, the stars, the sky, insects, birds and women. The Miro exhibition will take place at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition will be held from 12th September 2014 until 11th January in 2015.

If you want to get more information on the museum and the exhibition check the official site for more details.

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Museum of Fine Arts

Posted on August 18, 2014December 5, 2014 by worldcityguides

The Kunsthistorisches Museum was founded in 1891 in Vienna, Austria. It is a well known museum and has a rich collection of paintings and other artworks.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an italian painter who was born in 1527 in Milan, Italy and died in 1593. He is best known for painting imaginary portraits out of all kind of objects like fruits, vegetables, animals, flowers and even books. He painted thirty pictures in this style and there are four in the Kunsthistorisches Muesum in Vienna including one of his most famous artwork Flora. It was painted at the same time as his other famous painting the Vertumnus. The paintings are shown the first time for the public as they are privately owned. In January 2014 they were exhibited in Madrid and they are shown in Vienna for the first time together with the collection of Emperor Rudolf II. The exhibition is available for the visitors until February 2015.

If you want to find out more about the museum and the exhibitions visit the official site.

From Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection

Posted on October 21, 2013 by worldcityguides

The most famous museum in the capital of Austria, Vienna is admittedly the Albertina Museum, where better and better temporary and permanent exhibitions welcome visitors. Unusually the Monet to Picasso fantasy named exhibition is seeable out of the Albertina between 20 September 2013 and 10 December 2013; one half is available at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, the other half is loaned to Eremitage St. Petersburg.

Naturally the two great artists’ masterpieces are not the only what we can see on the exhibition, there are other monumental painters’ works between the exhibited objects. Art lovers can see for example Renoir’s, Cézanne’s, Modigliani’s, Matisse’s, Kirchner’s and other incredibly talented painters’ works too.

The collection got its name after the collectors, Herbert and Rita Batliner. Batliners started collecting around half hundred years ago. The couple fell in love with French artists’ works during collecting, the most frequent pieces are Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces; the Batliner Collection contains around 40 Picasso works. Batliners often loaned the rich collection to different museums, and a few years ago they have decided to present the whole collection to the Albertina Museum.

The Batliner Collection, what is visiting now the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Eremitage St. Petersburg between 20 September 2013 and 10 December 2013 is totally worth to see, when you are in Vienna at the same time.

Matisse exhibition at the Albertina

Posted on October 21, 2013 by worldcityguides

The capital of Austria, Vienna is one of the most outstanding centers of culture and art in Middle Europe. We can say that the Austrian capital’s most important museum is the Albertina Museum. The famous institution in Vienna has several temporary and permanent exhibitions; the Matisse exhibition belongs to the first version. It is available between 20 September 2013 and 12 January 2014 and it shows Matisse’s and his contemporaries, the fauvists’ works on a high level.

Henri Matisse and his partners showed up at the 3rd Autumn Salon in Paris with rough-and-ready, but very colorful paintings. In 1905 art lovers’ critics weren’t too positive, the works of Matisse and his friends actually shocked the audience instead it have impressed them. We can origin the expression, fauves or wild animals from this shock, after that the name of the style was born from it: fauvism. Nevertheless, modern painting would be very different from what we can see today without fauvism; moreover it was the 20th century’s first avant-garde endeavor.
The exhibition in the Albertina is unique in every way, because it’s not only the first time, you can see Matisse’s and his contemporaries’ works in the Austrian capital, but this is the first time, the whole Middle European area can enjoy fauvists’ interesting masterpieces.

Besides Henri Matisse visitors can see André Derain’s, Maurice de Vlaminck’s, Georges Braque’s and Kees van Dongen’s fantastic paintings too. If you are in Vienna between 20 September 2013 and 12 January 2014, you couldn’t skip the Albertina Museum and Matisse’s and the fauvists’ amazing exhibition.

Wotruba exhibition in Belvedere

Posted on April 12, 2013 by worldcityguides

One of the most significant sculpture of the XX. Century was Fritz Wotruba, who has his temporary exhibition from 12 December 2012 in the Belvedere in Vienna.

The father of the new Austrian architecture was greatly influenced by the teachings of the post-World War II architecture . One of the modern classical art you can see the lonely artist who relentlessly craving for the higher level. The resistance was represented by him against the whole world’s postwar reactionary conception of art.His main motive are the cube and its various forms.

The picturesque Belvedere Castle is a standard in Baroque architecture of the buildings, which showcases the bests of Austrian art from the Middle Ages to the present. Here you will find the former residence of Emperor Franz Joseph as well. Upper Belvedere with the most beautiful work of art will impress visitors to meet the acclaimed art lovers as well. The permanent exhibitions are the world’s largest Gustav Klimt collection attracts the most visitors. Lower Belvedere temporary exhibitions, in the Orangerie stunning architectural sight for visitors. The city of Vienna can be easily proud of this jewel of the city, which makes a high level of annual attendance of nearly one million implies.

If you like the show, you may want watch Vienna’s famous trinity church (Kirche Zur Heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit), which has also been built according to the plans Wotruba, sculptor, although the legend is unfortunately died before the completion of the building.

Art and Fashion Exhibition in Vienna

Posted on September 4, 2012 by worldcityguides

The exhibition takes place in Vienna, until the 23rd September. The topic and the goal is very modern and contemporary, let me say: artistic. Those who does not really like or understand art, or are beginners I would not recommend this event for them. Probably those who feel passionate love for fashion would appreciate and understand it more.

Few words about the principles: the subject of the exhibition is the notion of fashion as a fundamental aspect of art based on the works of Daniel Buren, Niki de St Phalle or Lawrence Weiner. Organizers were explained their view about art and it was the next phrase: “Fashion has shapes, forms which inspire the artist to work, draw, just to be creative. Also fashion takes back elements from the past. A piece of cloth or shoes can tell about the story of the old generations and culture. ”

According to Walter Benjamin, fashion has a revolutionary potential, but it even takes a certain degree of precedence. Art, on the other hand, incorporates fashion ’’at the most perfect’’ while prepare a complex character with paradoxes. It is also a form of expression, the expression of the body. Main artists and designers whose works can be found and seen there are: Sonia Delaunay, Alexandra Exter, Allen Jones, Marzena Nowak, Nadim Vardag, etc.

Even the whole sounds a bit strange, let me encourage you to go with the following thoughts: art is for you. It has a unique message for each of everyone. It is possible that your friend got something but you can, at the same time, see something complicated, something strange, something different that change your mind or principle forever. You can forget all the problems that you have during the day focusing only for the artist’s works.

Reflecting Fashion. Art and fashion since the Modern era
15 June – 23 September 2012
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna

Old Masters – dinosaurs and meteorites

Posted on January 31, 2012November 16, 2022 by worldcityguides

An exhibition named Old Masters – Dinousaurs and Meteorites can be seen in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna until April 9th, 2012. Curious what this exhibition is about? Visit the Natural History Museum and find out! The objects to be seen in the exhibition are made by Barbara Anna Husar.

Old Masters – dinosaurs and meteorites
Natural History Museum
December, 2011 – April 9th, 2012

Vienna Museum

Gustav Klimt in Museum of Fine Arts

Posted on January 31, 2012 by worldcityguides

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birthday of Gustav Klimt on July 14, 2012, the Kunsthistorisches Museum will showcase its important wall paintings designed and executed by the celebrated painter and draughtsman. Gustav Klimt is a painter most of us love and we have all seen his pictures around, either in IKEA, or in art museums all around the world. This exhibition will be a great chance to see the original works of Gustav Klimt close up and of course to see many of his works side by side. The exhibition can be seen in the Museum of Fine Arts between February 14th and May 6th.

Gustav Klimt in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
14 February 2012 – 6 May 2012

Vienna Museums