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Wagner, Otto (1841-1918)

2012 - Vienna celebrates Klimt

Gustav Klimt would have celebrated his 150th birthday in 2012. Vienna honours the painter with several exhibitions on Klimt and the Jugendstil movement.

Encounter Klimt in Vienna!

Equally controversial and successful in his day, Gustav Klimt was one of the central figures of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the epoch that marked the beginning of Modernism. Today Vienna’s museums accommodate the majority of popular paintings as well as huge numbers of little-known drawings by Gustav Klimt.

Jugendstil - An art movement embracing life

A fresh, sensual art can be discovered in virtually every part of the town: Like no other city Vienna is shaped by the last great, unified stylistic movement in the history of art: the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau).

The golden touch of a kiss

"Either I am too old, or too nervous, or too stupid - there must be something wrong", Klimt once wrote in a letter. Though facing continuous difficulties in his work, in the years 1907 and 1908 the painter created a centrepiece of the Jugendstil movement: The Kiss.

From the old town to new heights

It is Innsbrucks unique setting as a dazzling city inbetween impressive mountain ranges, that the Hungerburg funicular takes advantage of: Just a stone throw away from the famous “Goldenes Dachl” (golden roof) you can start your journey into lofty mountain heights.

Festival for all Senses

Austria's diverse cultural offerings include over 200 festivals, stretching from world scale events to small regional gatherings. Many of them make use of Austria's beautiful surroundings and most of them offer an outstanding culinary menu to accompany the cultural experience.

Museums in Austria – a world of astonishments

Austria today offers some of the world's most important and stunning collections of modern and contemporary art.

Gallery Belvedere - Vienna

This Baroque masterpiece houses one of Europe's most important museums. In the Upper Belvedere the world's largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt, alongside works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka are on display.

Kokoschka, Oskar (1886 - 1980)

Lavant, Christine (1915-1973)

Lehár, Franz (1870 - 1948)

Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911)

Hundertwasser, Friedensreich (1928 - 2000)

Kogelnik, Kiki (1935 - 1997)

Turrini, Peter (born 1944)

Suppé, Franz von (1819 - 1895)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)

Schwarzenegger, Arnold (born 1947)

Strauss, Johann (1825 - 1899)

Linz Card 2012

Famous Austrians

Austria's 'great' sons and daughters have left their mark all across the centuries in politics, art, science and sport: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christoph Waltz to name just a few...

Antony Gormley: Horizon Field

Antony Gormley's Horizon Field will consist of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body installed into the landscape of Vorarlberg in Austria until April 2012. The work will form a horizontal line at 2,039m above sea level.

Experiences "off the beaten path"

Looking for great authentic travel experiences? Just move the "slider" to your travel preference and we'll show where we think you should go. You most likely will encounter unexpected like the "Poppy village ".

Vienna - for gay travellers

You know Vienna for it's music and culture, for the coffee houses (yes, we did have coffee houses 300 years before Starbucks, or at least that’s what tradition tells us), for the Opera and for the Imperial history that the city still showcases everywhere.