Oh, boy! Woke up with head congestion and a terrible sore throat. Took meds and slept for a couple hours, then was ready at 10:00 to head out into rainy weather for our own Klimt-focused tour. We skipped the included shore excursion in Wien/Vienna, capital of Austria, because we had been here in 2009.
We had purchased 2-day Vienna City Cards that provided free transportation, plus discounts to museums.
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| The U-Bahn/Subway and a tram to Museum für Angewandte Kunst/MAK/Museum of Applied Arts (est 1863, building 1871, by Heinrich von Ferstel in Neo-Renaissance style) |
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| A MAK car? No way, because the artist, Nina Schrödl aka Nina Levett, had been applying to museums with zero response, so she parked her flower-painted (inside and out) 2023 Porsche Cayenne S in front of MAK; she has also parked it by the Louvre in Paris, and it was mechanically upgraded in Italy; it is supposedly for sale for €425,000/~$495,000 |
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| Postcard wall with cards designed by the Wiener Werkstätte/Vienna Workshops artists (KSS) |
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| Christmas-theme postcard (1912, by Anton Velim) (KSS) |
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| Cigarette Box (c 1910, by Josef Hoffmann) made with mother-of-pearl |
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| Flower Vase (1904, by Koloman Moser) |
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| Lace Trim with Face (c 1920, by Dagobert Peche) |
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| Mosaic of Wreath Bearer (c 1910, by Leopold Forstner) and Armchair (1914, by Josef Hoffmann) (KSS) |
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| Furnishings for a Big Star (1937, by Josef Hoffmann for the World's Fair in Paris) |
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| Relaxation Room for Carol Neubacher (1925, by Margarete Lihotzky) combines a bedroom and living room for saving space (KSS) |
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| Flanking the unidentified chair are 1907 costume designs for operas by Richard Wagner by Carl Otto Czeschka: on the left is Tristan from Tristan & Isolde and on the right is Wotan from Walküre/Valkyrie (KSS) |
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| Fulfillment (1908, by Gustave Klimt) is a working drawing for a mosaic frieze (14 m/46' long and 2 m/6.5' high) in the dining hall of the Stoclet House in Brussels, Belgium (KSS) |
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| Seven of the working drawings by Klimt are titled: Part of Tree of Life, Expectation (Dancer), Part of Tree of Life, Tree of Life, Part of Tree of Life, Rosebush, Part of Tree of Life (KSS) |
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| The final drawing is Knight (KSS) |
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| Necklace (1919, by Dagobert Peche) |
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| Cigar Cabinet (1912, by Rose Krenn) |
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| Coffee Pots and Cups (<1945, by Vally Wieselthier) (KSS) |
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| Coffee Set (1923-1932, by Josef Hoffmann) |
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| Linen Closet (c 1930, by Josef Frank) |
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| Toy (c 1925, by Franz Cižek students) |
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| Glass ceiling over MAK central courtyard |
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| MAK central courtyard with an oversized Sofa (2019, by Gelitin Art Collective of Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, and Tobias Urban) |
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| Traditional Viennese horse-drawn carriage (KSS) |
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| Maria-Theresien-Platz/Maria Theresa Square with the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien/Vienna Natural History Museum (1871-1881, by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer in Historicism style) is facing its twin, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien/Vienna Art History Museum |
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| Waiting in the ticket line of the Vienna Art History Museum (1871-1891, by Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer in Historicism style) |
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| Grand staircase to Cupola Hall |
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| View in the same direction from Cupola Hall, with Theseus Fighting the Centaur (1805-1819, by Antonio Canova) at the top of the stairs; we were here to see the spandrel (the triangular spaces on each side above an arch) and intercolumnia (space between columns) paintings executed by Gustav Klimt along with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch, with the theme of the development of art |
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| First, the ceiling painting of Apotheosis of the Renaissance (1890, by Mihály Munkácsy) |
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| North side L: Roman and Venetian Fourteenth Century (1891, by Gustav Klimt) |
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| North side middle: Ancient Greece and Egypt (1891, by Gustav Klimt) (KSS) |
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| North side R: Early Italian Art (1891, by Gustav Klimt) |
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| East side L: German Renaissance (1890, by Ernst Klimt) |
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| East side middle: Spain and Netherlands (1890, by Ernst Klimt) |
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| East side R: Italian High Renaissance (1890, by Ernst Klimt) |
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| West side R: Florentine Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (1891, by Gustav Klimt) |
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| West side middle: Baroque and Rococo (1890, by Franz Matsch) |
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| West side R: Dutch and Flemish School (1890, by Ernst Klimt) |
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| Looking up at the entrance dome/cupola |
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| Entrance floor tiles |
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