Pictures
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. W …
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 …
Ludwig van Beethoven
This great creator (1770-1827) was born in Bonn, Germany, in a family with deep musical traditions. However, he was not a prodigy, and his genius only began to emerge in his teens. W 1787 r. Beethoven stayed …
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This composer (1756-1791) is perhaps the most famous classical music virtuoso of all time. Many other composers were worshiped by his music – Haydn considered him "the greatest composer”, and Schubert melted in delight, arguing, that "the magic of Mozart's music …