Honeymoon - part 4
Nov. 15th, 2019 07:57 pmDay 7 - Leopold Museum and Schoenbrunn Palace Concert
We spent most of the next day in the Leopold Museum, which was presented in chronological order, showing the development of Austrian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. One nice thing about it was that it made the Literature Museum more interesting in retrospect than I'd found it at the time, because the pieces and timelines started slotting together along with the political context and allowed me to enjoy this museum more. There was quite a lot of Klimt, including the Kiss, and representations of the unfinished faculty portraits, but also some less well known works, such as this landscape "Am Attersea", where he used to holiday with family friends:( Read more... )
We spent most of the next day in the Leopold Museum, which was presented in chronological order, showing the development of Austrian art in the late 19th and early 20th century. One nice thing about it was that it made the Literature Museum more interesting in retrospect than I'd found it at the time, because the pieces and timelines started slotting together along with the political context and allowed me to enjoy this museum more. There was quite a lot of Klimt, including the Kiss, and representations of the unfinished faculty portraits, but also some less well known works, such as this landscape "Am Attersea", where he used to holiday with family friends:( Read more... )