HOW TO RECOGNIZE AN ALBRECHT DÜRER FAKE?
Albrecht Dürer was already one of the superstars of the art world during his lifetime. His works were in great demand and were often copied or falsified. Albertina Albertina head curator Christof Metzger examplifies this with three originals and three falsifications of Dürer artworks.
RAPHAEL. The drafting process. From the Albertina series "Museum in a Nutshell"
Did you know that the Italian renaissance artist Raffael planned and prepared his masterly paintings meticulously? In our new film from the Albertina series "Museum in a Nutshell"
Albertina curator for Italian art from the 15th to the 19th Century, Achim Gnann, leads us through all the preparation steps it took Raffael to start painting a masterwork.
PAUL FLORA. Drawings
Many of us know Paul Flora as a caricaturist of the german weekly newspaper "Zeit" where he published thousands of his caricatures, but he saw himself more as a draftsman than a caricaturist. Now the Albertina in Vienna opened a comprehensive retrospective of his drawing-oeuvre.
PETER ZOLLY. artists only
Between digital art, drawing and painting – pop artist Peter Zolly’s creativity crosses boundaries when he conceives his iconic visual vocabulary. As
The Director’s Choice - Albertina Collection of Photography
Bloom of youth and decay of old age, city and countryside, modernism and tradition, staging and authenticity, pornography and mythology – the key feature
The Art of the Viennese Watercolor
Displaying the property, the journeys or the family: The art of the Viennese watercolor had its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries before it was finally
Elisabeth von Samsonow - Transplants
At the Dominican church in Krems Zeit Kunst Niederösterreich presents the artworks of Elisabeth von Samsonow. Among other works the artist placed a huge installation
The Woodcuts of Anselm Kiefer - Albertina Curator Antonia Hoerschelmann
Like an alchemist, the artist processes the dark matter as if it sprang up from the bowels of the earth. The pictures are composed like sedimentations, layers
Myths of Romanticism - The New Heroes
In the political context of the Napoleonic Wars and the birth of nation states in Europe, there were art movements oriented towards the past and its myths and heroes.
Worlds of Romanticism - The Romantic Search for the Transcendental
What was important for the artists of Romanticism and who were the main players? Museum Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder leads us through Romanticism
Lyonel Feininger and Alfred Kubin - A friendship of artists
„My dear brother Kubin“ - the friendship between Alfred Kubin and Lyonel Feininger is on show in the Albertina, with more than 100 pictures by both artists.
Drawing Now - Signs of the time
Curated by Elsy Lahner, the 36 mostly international participants of the exhibition "Drawing Now" at Viennese museum Albertina display 130 works with an expanded
Hubert Schmalix - Bank Austria Kunstforum
Curated by Florian Steininger, the Bank Austria Kunstforum exhibits a comprehensive overview on the work of Hubert Schmalix. About fifty of the paintings were
Albertina - Monet to Picasso. The Batliner collection.
The permanent exhibition „Monet to Picasso. The Batliner collection.” at the Museum Albertina in Vienna offers an extensive overview of one of the most
HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. The Path to Modernism
On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this pioneer of modernism, Bank Austria Kunstforum shows the artists first comprehensive retrospective in Austria. For our CastYourArt exhibition portrait we interviewed Evelyn Benesch, curator oft the exhibition.
Aron Demetz - Dialogue with life
He has embraced tradition in order to „forget it again“: wood as a challenge and possibility of failure. An artist-portrait of the sculptor Aron Demetz.
Vienna Secession - To every age its art and to art its freedom
The building of the Vienna Secession is regarded as the structural manifestation of the ideas of artist union around Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll
Fritz Panzer - The Walk In Drawing
Fritz Panzer relieves objects of his immediate reality of their significations and shows them in their half present - half absent nature. The chair and the
Mirabilia, Furies and Curiosa - The Chamber of Curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
“And if there ever was an age when one sees varied and wondrous things I believe that ours is one” (Mateo Bandello, 1554) This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.
Maria Lassnig - The Ninth Decade
Maria Lassnig: “Soft as marmalade, marmalade out of blood I’m batted and feel hindered and left locked out from the world of painting.” “There was
Carsten Nicolai - Spaces in Between
Through his artwork, Carsten Nicolai overcomes the segregation of forms of sensory perception. Sound is made visible, light frequencies are heard. Sound, light,
The Sanchez Brothers - Exposures of the Dark
Carlos, born 1976, Jason, born 1981, surname Sanchez, together, "The Sanchez Brothers", are an extremely promising, young photographer collective. The work
Eva Jiricka - If I Couldn’t Do This, I Wouldn’t Know What to Do.
“If somebody would come and wash my car, it would be nice. It would be nice, it would be done, but I wouldn’t pay for it. Sometimes I think that for many