Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum ("Museum of Art History") is the most prominent art museum in Vienna, Austria. The main museum is located on Ringstraße. It was opened in 1891 at the same time as the Naturhistorisches Museum. The two museums have identical exteriors and face each other across Maria-Theresien-Platz. Both buildings were built between 1872 and 1891 according to plans drawn up by Gottfried Semper and Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer.

Related Topics:
Art museum - Vienna - Austria - Ringstraße - 1891 - Naturhistorisches Museum - Maria-Theresien-Platz - 1872 - Gottfried Semper - Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer

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Affiliated with the Vienna museum, and officially part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are:

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• The Lipizzaner Museum in the Stallburg (Vienna)
• Ambras Castle (Innsbruck)
• The Museum of Ethnology (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
• The Austrian Theatre Museum (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
• The Imperial Treasury (Schatzkammer)
• The Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments in the Neue Burg (Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente)
• The Collection of Arms and Armour in the Neue Burg (Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
• The Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms in Schloß Schönbrunn (Wagenburg und Monturdepot)

Among the most important works in the picture gallery are:

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• Jan van Eyck: "Cardinal Niccolò Albergati" ("Kardinal Niccoló Albergati"), 1438
• Albrecht Dürer: "Adoration of the Trinity" (Anbetung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit), 1511
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo: "Summer" (Sommer), 1563
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: "Madonna of the Rosary" (Die Rosenkranzmadonna) 1606/07
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: "The Crowning with Thorns"
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: "David with the Head of Goliath"
• Peter Paul Rubens: "Ildefonso Altar" (Der Altar des hl. Ildefonso), 1630-32
• Peter Paul Rubens: "The Fur" (Das Pelzchen), um 1638
• Johannes Vermeer: "The Artists Studio" (Die Malkunst), 1665/66
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder:
• "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" (Kampf zwischen Fasching und Fasten), 1559
• "Children's Games" (Kinderspiele), 1560
• "The Tower of Babel" (Turmbau zu Babel), 1563
• "The Procession to Calvary" (Kreuztragung Christi), 1564
• "The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.)" (Düsterer Tag (Vorfrühling)), 1565
• "The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.)" (Heimkehr der Herde (Herbst)), 1565
• "The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.-Jan.)" (Jäger im Schnee (Winter)), 1565
• "The Peasant and the Nest Robber" (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568
• "The Peasant Wedding" (Bauernhochzeit), 1568/69
• "The Peasant Dance" (Bauerntanz), 1568/69

One of the museum's most important sculptures, the Saliera (http://www.khm.at/system2.html?/static/page842.html]) by Benvenuto Cellini, was stolen on May 11, 2003 and has been lost since then.

Related Topics:
Saliera - Benvenuto Cellini - May 11 - 2003

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