Tag: Museum of Fine Arts

Did you know that the Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches museum) owns more than 40 works by Peter Paul Rubens and his workshop? From October 2017 you can see these and even more paintings on a special Rubens exhibition in the museum.

Peter Paul Rubens is without a doubt one of the greatest Flemish painters in history. If you come to the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna to discover the greatness of the painter you will not only see famous Rubens works, but you can also see how he developed and changed throughout his lifetime, and also influenced by others. To see how he was influenced you can also see minor works from Titian or Caravaggio at the exhibition.

The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna will open at October 21st and stay available till January 21st. This means that Christmas market visitors coming to discover the beautiful Christmas markets of Vienna, also can enjoy some hours inside the museum to get warm and learn more about the amazing Rubens.

The museum is open from Tuesday till Sunday in this period of the year, with opening at 10.00 and open till 18.00. On Thursday evenings the museum has prolonged opening time and will remain open till 21.00.

For more information about other exhibitions and events in Vienna, look around in our Vienna Guide. You can read more about the exhibition itself right here.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna is celebrating its 125 year anniversary in 2016. This celebration now continues with an exhibition in three parts giving information about the year of the inauguration of the museum, 1891.

It was on October 17th in 1891 that Emperor Franz Joseph officially opened, or inaugurated, the Museum of Fine Arts at its present location in Vienna. And to celebrate this grand opening 125 years ago visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts can enjoy an exhibition in three parts in the museum. These exhibitions all focus on the opening year 1891.

• The first part of the exhibition deals with the construction of the building itself. Here you can see pictures from the construction and get some insight in how they progressed with the work on the building.
• The second part is in memory of the painter Julius Victor Berger. He is a painter the world has almost forgotten about, but this exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts will for sure help give this painter some more attention.
• The third part shows how the museum evolved from 1891 and for the first 30 years. How did the museum become as big as it is today? What kind of pictures were exhibited back then and what did the museum look like?

If you want to enjoy this exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, then go ahead and visit it right away.

The exhibition will be on display from the 18th of October until the 29th of January in 2017. You can read more about about other programs and happenings in Vienna here in our Vienna Guide. And if you come to Vienna before Christmas do not forget about the beautiful Christmas markets the city has to show!

The Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna is celebrating 125 years in 2016 and they are celebrating it with an exhibition portraying the history of celebration, or something like that!

On this special occasion they have borrowed some fantastic works of arts from for example Prado in Madrid and from Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In addition they have also gathered together their best pieces and used them all to create this fantastic exhibition giving us insight on the art of celebration and how it has evolved throughout history. You can read more about the entire exhibition on the official site for the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna.

The exhibition opened on March 8th in 2016 and will be available all the way until September 11th.

If the sun is shining while you are in Vienna do not forget to go for a stroll in one of the beautiful parks in the city, whereof the most beautiful might be the park area around Schonbrunn. And if you want to watch Euro 2016 while in Vienna then there will be plenty of bars and restaurants showing all the matches, you can probably also watch the games on the TV in your hotel room (read about the best hotels in Vienna here) as ORF will broadcast Euro 2016 in Austria or you can watch the matches online.

Have fun in Vienna and for more information on what’s going on in the city, about attractions and restaurants, read on here in our Vienna Guide!

The exhibition ‘Realms of Imagination: Albert Altdorfer and the Expressivity of Art around 1500’ will be shown at the Kunsthistorisches Museum from the middle of March to the middle of June in 2015.

This major exhibition focuses on the most beautiful and striking paintings north of the Alps. The exhibition shows paintings from the 1500 and the most amazing pieces of the Renaissance. At the exhibition visitors will have the chance to get to know Albert Altdorfer and his art works as well as other outstanding painters’ works such as Wolf Huber or Master IP. Albert Altdorfer was a German Renaissance painter and architect who was born in c. 1480 and he died in 1538. Along with Wolf Huber and Lucas Cranach the Elder were the main representatives of the famous Danube School so at the exhibition visitors will have the chance to have a closer look on the pictures of the school as well. The exhibition on the most beautiful Renaissance paintings will be held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna from 17th March 2015 to 14th June 2014. The opening hours of the museum from June to August: it is open every day from 10 am to 6pm except on Thursday when it is open from 10 am to 9 pm. From September to May the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm except on Thursday when is it open from 10 am to 9 pm.

Kunsthistorisches Museum
Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Austria

For more information on the museum and the exhibition check the following site.

The exhibition ‘Emperor Charles V Captures Tunis’ is shown at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna until the end of September in 2015.

At the exhibition visitors have the chance to recall a little piece of history through various paintings. The exhibition shows the documentary on the war to reconquer the Kingdom of Tunis from the Ottomans and the Tunis Cartoons are in the main focus at the exhibition. Visitors can explore the ten monumental cartoons of the war by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen and at the exhibition visitors can discover even more on the war and on the history through the beautiful art works of Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen and another Flemish painter, Pieter Coecke van Aelst. Each of the cartoons show the details and one or two events of the campaign.

The ‘Emperor Charles V Captures Tunis’ takes place at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in the capital city of Austria in Vienna. The exhibition is held from 7th May 2013 to 20th September 2015. The museum June to August is open from every day from 10 am to 6 pm except on Thursday when it is open from 10 am to 9 pm. From September to May the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm and on Thursday it is open from 10 am to 9 pm.

Kunsthistorisches Museum
Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Austria

For more information on the exhibition and the museum check the official site.

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.

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.