Even more photos of Vienna, Austria - July 8, 2008

Good grief there are a ton of monuments, museums, and former palaces in Vienna. These Hapsburgs and their hangers-on were ridiculously wealthy by any historical standard. Talk about a building boom: it must have been a full-employment time period for architects and artisans of the Imperial era.

Turns out that yesterday, when I walked so much of the city, I wasn't in the museum quarter at all. Actually, that's a slightly different part of the city, and I went there today to visit the Leopold Museum. The Leopold Museum normally has lots of Klimt on display, but they are re-tooling the exhibit and had nothing on display today (which explains why The Kiss was temporarily on exhibit at the Belvedere museum). However, the permanent installation of the Leopold museum includes a huge amount of Egon Scheile's work -- so I was educated in his progression as an artist.

Yesterday, I really enjoyed the special exhibit of Kokoschka's on display at the Albertina museum. They also had an amazing assortment of Paul Klee, who is actually my favorite Bauhaus artist. (I like Kandinsky quite a bit too, but Klee is my fave.)

Labels: art, Europe, travel, vacation

posted by Lura on Tuesday, July 08, 2008