A coded letter from Maria Theresa which will be up for sale on 17th December… Read More →
On the 12 December 2024, Fritz Muliar would have turned 105 years old. On that… Read More →
Prized both as gems and as healing stones, aquamarines go back a long way in… Read More →
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Ernst Wilhelm Nay: Rhythm in Harmony
Ernst Wilhelm Nay is among Germany’s most prominent post-war painters. His “Rhythmic Pictures” signalled the artist’s…
Günther Uecker: The Peaceful Conquest of the Soul
The works Günther Uecker has been creating for more than 60 years maintain a form…
Sensational autumn auctions
Old Masters, 19th century paintings and Imperial jewellery Million Euro sales for Old Masters, great interest in 19th century paintings and wedding jewellery from Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) of Austria's granddaughter The major autumn auctions at…
Germaine Greer: You can do it, girls!
Interview with Germaine Greer The world-famous, UK-based Australian writer and journalist Germaine Greer made feminist history in 1970 as author of “The Female Eunuch”. Later in the 1970s she rescued the Renaissance…
PRETTY AS A PICTURE: Jewels and Old Masters
Jewellery has always been important: Jewellery as a sign of position and rank, jewellery as decoration, as an investment, as a memory. To capture jewellery in an image is to convey and…
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…
Modern Art
20 years of VIENNA ART WEEK
Is there anything in Vienna apart from Mozart, Sissi and Schönbrunn? Of course there is! When it comes to art, VIENNA ART WEEK and its Artistic Director, Robert Punkenhofer, have been trying…
