Pictures
Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and the British – Art History Museum – Vienna
Rubens
The long-term rule of the Habsburgs in the southern Netherlands, the museum owes one of the world's largest collections of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which takes up three rooms …
Arcimboldo, Spranger i Van Dyck – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the room 19 enters the world of Rudolf II's court (1576-1612), an emperor with a melancholy disposition, who locked himself in the Prague Castle surrounded by astrologers, alchemists and artists. Rudolph, whose …
Dürer, Cranach i Holbein – Art History Museum – Vienna
In the next, in smaller rooms there is an excellent collection of German painting, especially representatives of the Danube school, a loose group of various German speakers, Sixteenth-century painters, inspired by the Danube landscape. In the room 16 there is a colorful one …
Bruegel and his contemporaries – Art History Museum – Vienna
To reach the works of Bruegel, you have to go through room IX, in which, among others,. works by a contemporary of Bruegel – Pietera Aertsena (ok. 1508-75). Aertsen, just like Bruegel, characters on their own …
FOLKLORE AND FOLK ART
Traditions of folk culture of the Upper Silesian village in its basic ethnographic groups of the Tamogórsko-Bytom region, Pszczyna-Rybnik, Raciborska, Cieszyn, Beskidzka, Opole was cultivated for generations, despite the growing in the nineteenth / twentieth century. the process of germanization of these lands. In many parts of the macroregion, they still remain …
DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND ART
Upper Silesia inhabited in the past by the Proto-Slavic tribes of the Lusatian culture, and w VIII to IX w. by the Slavic tribes of Opole and Gołęszyce, having their settlements and strongholds along the upper section of the Odra River from Karinów to Opole, produced …
Sculpture in Austria
The sculpture has always reflected changes, which took place in architecture at the turn of the century. The famous altar of Nicholas of Verdun in Klosterneuburg Abbey in Lower Austria comes from the Romanesque period. There are also some beautiful Gothic altars in Austria, carved in …
Painting in Austria
Gothic church art is best presented in the collection of medieval paintings in the Orangery in Vienna's Lower Belvedere. Renaissance elements first appeared in the works of the Danube school, which combined landscape and religious themes. Among them are primarily Rueland Frueauf …
Austrian literature
One of Austria's most outstanding medieval works is the Song of the Nibelungen, written around 1200 r. by an unknown poet. This epic poem tells a colorful story of passion, fidelity and revenge, taking place at the Burgundian court in Worms. The theme of this epic remained …
Franciszek Schubert
Living in years 1797-1828, he was the last of the greatest composers of the Vienna School of the Classicist period (1740-1825). Being a native Viennese, he became a restorer of the old tradition of German song (Lieder) and introduced the custom of organizing musical evenings, called Schubertiads. His skills and achievements …