Josef Hoffmann: Declaration of a new era
Quality, individuality, precision: Josef Hoffmann’s clock from the early Wiener Werkstätte period pointed the way…
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Georges Mathieu: Poetry of Abstraction
Colour, speed, improvisation – Georges Mathieu captures the moment of creation on canvas. A large-scale…
Lucio Fontana: Adorning art
Lucio Fontana’s paintings are not the only eye catchers he made: he also created art…
Tourmalines: Colourful Dazzlers of the Gemstone World
Precious stones have been collected and fashioned into jewels since time immemorial. They are symbols…
Prized & Preserved: 1971 Porsche 911 E 2,2
Vienna’s Apollo Garage, founded in 1931, is still going strong. For decades, it was home…
Albin Egger-Lienz: The Dance of Death
Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926), “Totentanz 1809“, 1916 casein on canvas, 130 x 165 cm, estimate €500,000…
Andy Warhol: A shift of perspective
Andy Warhol’s portraits occupy a special place in his pop-culture-œuvre. His “Portrait of a Lady”,…
Czech Modernism
Jan Zrzavý (1890–1977), Still life with apples (detail), 1928 oil on canvas, 35 x 46.5…
Colour intensity: Imi Knoebel and Heinz Mack
Spellbinding hues: abstract art epitomises the study of colour and light – more than that,…
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: Facets of human empathy
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865), The Compassionate Child (The Beggar), oil on panel, 66 x 52…