Wristwatches have long been more than just timepieces. They are reliable companions in extreme conditions,… Read More →
Dazzling light objects and vibrant canvases: Heinz Mack, co-founder of the ZERO movement and two-time… Read More →
Take a look at the new Dorotheum Magazine Spring is here! And with it the… Read More →
The things we collect become props of our identity, a kind of extension of our… Read More →
Germaine Greer: You can do it, girls!
Interview with Germaine Greer The world-famous, UK-based Australian writer and journalist Germaine Greer made feminist…
PRETTY AS A PICTURE: Jewels and Old Masters
Jewellery has always been important: Jewellery as a sign of position and rank, jewellery as…
Anthony van Dyck’s Noblewoman with a Secret
Portrait of a Noblewoman with a Parrot Anthony van Dyck is regarded as the most eminent portrait painter of his era. His “Portrait of a Noblewoman with a Parrot” is a sensational…
Jan Brueghel II: A botanical impossibility
Thirty-nine flowers of different colour, size, form, and, above all, with different blooming times. Jan Brueghel II pieced them together to form a dazzling, though botanically impossible arrangement of flowers that is…
Rich History: Imperial Wedding Diadem
Austria gets married … When Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria commissioned the imperial court jeweller Köchert to create a wedding diadem for her daughter, the events of the First World War had already…
Powerful Women: Artemisia Gentileschi & Lucretia
This is female power: Three women, two women artists, two paintings of Lucretia. Artemisia Gentileschi and Diana De Rosa prevailed against their male artist colleagues. One of their favourite motifs was brave…
Vittorio Matteo Corcos: Silky Secrets
Dis-moi tout! Vittorio Matteo Corcos is renowned for his portraits of elegant 19th-century Paris society ladies, whose beauty he captured in minute detail. The painting to be auctioned at Dorotheum on 24…
Modern Art
Maria Lassnig: Film Star
Film Star Maria Lassnig, a giant of international painting, is the focus of an unconventional anti-biopic by Austrian director Anja Salomonowitz. Entitled Sleeping with a Tiger, the film presents a nuanced and…
