Republic of Austria v. Altmann – Klimt Goes to Court!
Adele Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy socialite from Austria. One day, her husband asked Gustav Klimt to paint her portrait as an anniversary gift. But...
Ruxi Rusu 12 July 2024
Adele Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy socialite from Austria. One day, her husband asked Gustav Klimt to paint her portrait as an anniversary gift. But...
Ruxi Rusu 12 July 2024
Have you ever looked upon Gustav Klimt’s portrait of The Lady in Gold and wondered why she was so worshipped? What made the artist immortalize her...
Guest Author 12 July 2024
Some of Klimt’s portraits have already gained “iconic” status, one of them being his soaked in the gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. Yet,...
Magda Michalska 12 July 2024
Do you know Gustav Klimt? This Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession combined highly refined...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 July 2024
Jupiter and Io by Correggio is a masterpiece of the Northern Italian Renaissance. It explores sensual nudity through the lens of a Roman...
James W Singer 24 March 2024
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, one of the foremost museums in the world, owns rich holdings comprising artworks from seven millennia –...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 February 2024
It can be quite surprising to consider art as one of the items moved in the world’s black-market economy, alongside some of the more expected...
Nikolina Konjevod 11 January 2024
Art is a serious thing. But sometimes some associations once they pop up in your head just can’t disappear. I didn’t find any scientific evidence...
Zuzanna Stańska 12 August 2023
In the middle of the Austrian countryside, in Wattens, you can find yourself surrounded by a mixture of contemporary art and crystal wonders by...
Agnieszka Cichocka 16 January 2023
In the Bruegel Room in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, 12 paintings hang in the space. They cover the final ten year period of the life of Pieter...
Wendy Gray 21 December 2022
Death has been a fascinating theme for artists since the beginning of time. It was imagined as a personified force, also known as the Grim Reaper, a...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 July 2022
Recently I found myself asking: why have I never realized Egon Schiele’s orange obsession? Clearly, there are many of his paintings that...
Magda Michalska 12 June 2022