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Landscape Oil Painting

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:15:11 +0000

Title : Landscape

Item No. : KNI – 413

SIZE(INCHES) PRICE PER (USD)

24 x 24 $180.00

32 x 32 $280.00

40 x 40 $410.00

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Landscape Oil Painting

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:02:13 +0000

Title : Landscape

Item No. : KNI – 412

SIZE(INCHES) PRICE PER (USD)

24 x 24 $180.00

32 x 32 $280.00

40 x 40 $410.00

Usually ships within 7 working days

Landscape Oil Painting

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:58:16 +0000

Title : Landscape

Item No. : KNI – 411

SIZE(INCHES) PRICE PER (USD)

24 x 24 $180.00

32 x 32 $280.00

40 x 40 $410.00

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Wien Museum

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:23:14 +0000

Art museums	Wien Museum
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	Karlsplatz, A-1040 Vienna
About the Museum	Wien Museum is a general-purpose metropolitan museum with a wide range of collections and exhibitions – from the history of the city to art, fashion and modern culture, from the earliest settlements to the present day. Because of its general approach and interdisciplinary potential, it occupies a unique position among Vienna’s museums. It has sites throughout the city. Taking the city of Vienna as a model, it explores the general theme of social, cultural and urban change in comparison with other cities. In its consideration of the history of the city and the evidence of the past the museum also takes account of current issues and themes. It collects, studies and reinterprets the objects in the various collections and their significance for our lives. Although Wien Museum is not primarily an art institution, it also deals with art and the conditions in which it is created. Artistic phenomena are placed in their social and cultural context and considered within a broader framework (“art plus” principle). The history of the city and the cultures within it are not regarded as homogeneous processes, and the collection of objects and their exhibition are presented and managed with account taken of the lifestyles, interests and recollections of people of different origins. Collection activities in future will be based on the principles of radical selectivity and significant selection. The collections focus on Vienna and are supplemented by artefacts from the twentieth century. Wien Museum is a repository of knowledge and a public medium. It offers permanent residents, newcomers and passing visitors an opportunity for contemplation and reflection. To all of them the message is simple: if you are interested in Vienna, this is the place to pick up its traces.
Museum Collections	The Wien Museum has an exceptional position in the rich landscape of the Viennese museums: Its collections are a blend of art and history that leads the visitor down Vienna’s path through the centuries. Another of the Wien Museum’s strong points is its collection from the nineteenth century. Selected furniture, clothing and splendid works of applied arts, the reconstructed apartment of the notable Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer with original furnishings, and above all major paintings by Waldmüller, Amerling, Danhauser and Fendi all combine to present a compact and multifaceted impression of Viennese Biedermeier.
Web site	http://www.wienmuseum.at/frameset.asp

Secession

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:22:40 +0000

Art museums	Secession
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	SECESSION, Association of Visual Artists, Friedrichstrasse 12, A-1010 Vienna
About the Museum	The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 and presented its first exhibition in 1898, the same year the new Secession building was completed to the designs of Joseph M.Olbrich. Today, the Secession is the world’s oldest independent gallery devoted entirely to exhibitions of contemporary art. The exhibition programme of the Vienna Secession is decided by the members of the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession on a democratic basis and selected entirely according to artistic criteria. One of the basic objectives of the Association is the presentation of current developments in Austrian and international art, as well an to cultivate an openness for experimentation.
Museum Collections	Its dignity and simplicity were seen as appropriate for a “temple” to art. The foliated dome, nicknamed by contemporaries as the “golden cabbage,” is gilded with laurel leaves and berries.
Web site	http://www.secession.at/e.html

Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:22:00 +0000

Art museums	Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	5 Stubenring, Vienna, Austria
About the Museum	The MAK is a center for Art. At the MAK, the ideas of the artist and the intentions of the work are given free rein. Often art is created on the premises; and if necessary, art is defended. The MAK is a hub of emerging global communication. Thus, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles1 and the Artists and Architects in Residence program at the Mackey Apartments are central to an intense discourse on the interweaving of contemporary themes in art and architecture. With an extraordinary collection of applied and contemporary art, the MAK serves a dual purpose as a conservator of significant art objects and as a center for the scientific research of art with a special emphasis on its production, preservation, and reorientation. The MAK regards itself as a laboratory of artistic production and a research center of social awareness. The powerful ideas created here today will serve as models for tomorrow. Founded in 1864 as the Imperial & Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, the MAK has pursued a continued commitment to combining practice and theory, art and industry, production and reproduction. The School of Applied Arts, originally an outgrowth of the Museum, was later developed into an independent institution, known today as the University of Applied Arts. When the Museum was restructured and remodelled in 1986, the Museum’s original purpose was reconfirmed and radically expanded. The current MAK identity was created and a fundamental agenda, bold and decentralized, was introduced. One of the significant elements of the restructuring included the exhibition design for the presentation of objects determined by the interventions of contemporary artists. The development of new display strategies for the permanent collections reorganized formal modes of presentation, allowing an unparalleled interplay of historicism and contemporary intervention. Artists involved with the re-presenting of historical artifacts have included Barbara Bloom, Eichinger oder Knechtl, Günther Förg, Gang Art, Franz Graf, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Peter Noever, Manfred Wakolbinger, Heimo Zobernig, Sepp Müller, Hermann Czech, and James Wines/SITE. Another important priority of the MAK’s programming is the commissioning of new works for public spaces both at home and abroad. Recent commissions include: Donald Judd’s “Stage Set”; Philip Johnson’s “Wiener Trio”; James Turrell’s “The Other Horizon/Skyspace”; Franz West’s “Vier Lemurenköpfe” in Vienna, as well as Martin Kippenberger’s “METRO-Net Ventilation Shaft” in Los Angeles. Transforming a World War II antiaircraft tower in Vienna’s Arenbergpark, the Contemporary Art Tower (CAT) will be an international center, showcasing important contemporary projects. Through its unique avant-garde architecture and pioneering program, this “monument of barbarism” will become Vienna’s foremost venue for contemporary art. Art functions both as an investment in, and a prophesy of, the future of society. A museum construct is the ultimate transmitter for communicating the ideas and products of individuals across generation and nationality. Through its connection to the past, a museum also serves as a projection screen and a producer of utopian potentiality, thereby articulating an alternative to the business model of the entertainment industry and its resulting lifestyle that seeks easy sensation and simulated experience. The museum must continue to develop as a place of awareness, free of external influences, by advancing the discourse between the interplay of experience and perception. Since it navigates along the borders that separate art and awareness from innumerable forms of fashionable consumption, the museum’s articulation of qualitative assessment makes it a central forum for resistance against the widespread loss of meaning pandemic in contemporary popular culture. This is the unalterable position of the MAK.
Museum Collections	This museum boasts a wide variety of Austrian art, highlighted by a large collection of works by Gustav Klimt.
Web site	http://www.mak.at/

Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:21:18 +0000

Art museums	Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	Prinz Eugen-Str.27 1030 Wien
About the Museum	The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is one of the world’s most important museums with collections spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day. The museum is housed in the Belvedere Palace, which Prince Eugene of Savoy had built as a summer residence. There are two palace buildings: the Upper and Lower Belvedere. The collections of the 19th and 20th centuries are housed in the Upper Belvedere with works by Biedermeier artists (e.g. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Jakob Alt etc.), French Impressionists (e.g. Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir) and masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. In the Lower Belvedere the Museum of Medieval Art and the Baroque Museum are located. The two buildings are linked by a unique Baroque garden. The entire ensemble ranks among the world’s most beautiful and best preserved historic palaces and parks. From the north side of the Upper Belvedere one can appreciate the renowned and stunning view of Vienna.
Museum Collections	The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is one of the world’s most important museums with collections spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Web site	http://www.belvedere.at/en/index.htm

Museum of Ethnology

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:20:39 +0000

Art museums	Museum of Ethnology
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	Neue Burg A-1010 Vienna
About the Museum	The Museum of Ethnology Vienna (MVK), situated in the Corps de Logis-part of the Neue Burg, was opened to the public on 25 May 1928. With the opening of the new museum the ethnographic collection was separated from the Museum of Natural History, which was established in 1889. By now the Museum of Ethnology houses and administrates about 240,000 objects, 72,000 photographs, and 132,000 volumes. The Tasks of Ethnological Museums Ethnological museums are cultural institutions, which provide their audience with the results of their scientific work represented within the scope of exhibitions, events, international conferences, and publications. The research work done by these museums is a continuous process of examining the ideology specific to this science, various ways of life and views on human living, and of dealing with cultural identity and xenophobia, racism and hostility, nationalism and globalisation, social changes, and the current cultural policy.
Museum Collections	The Museum of Ethnology houses and administrates about 240,000 objects, 72,000 photographs, and 132,000 volumes.
Web site	http://www.ethno-museum.ac.at/en/museum.html

MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:19:47 +0000

Art museums	MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna Austria
About the Museum	The Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK) is, within the international art and museum context, a central place for the collection, presentation, and interpretation of modern and contemporary art. The MUMOK’s collection of Pop Art and Photo-Realism (Austrian Ludwig Foundation), Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme (Hahn Collection), and Viennese Actionism allows visitors to gain unique insights into recent history, its avant-garde tendencies, and its focus on reality and action.
Museum Collections	This gallery presents one of the most outstanding collections of contemporary art in central Europe. It exhibits mainly American pop art, mixed with concurrent Continental movements such as hyperrealism of the 1960s and ’70s. The museum features five exhibition levels (three above ground, two underground).
Web site	http://www.mmkslw.or.at/

Leopold Museum

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:19:10 +0000

Art museums	Leopold Museum
Country	Austria
State
City	Vienna
Location	Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien
About the Museum	The Leopold Museum is being built in the main courtyard of the former Kaiserliche Hofstallungen (Imperial Court Stables) on the Museumsplatz. Close by are the Kunsthalle Wien, the Hallen E + G (events halls for the Wiener Festwochen) and the mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. In a cultural district of the city between the centre (the Wiener Hofburg and the Natural History and History of Art Museums) and the 7th District (the Spittelberg, the Mariahilfer Straße, the Volkstheater and the Burggasse lies the Leopold Museum. According to the mission statement of all the users of the Museumsquartier, a “place of cultural diversity, experiment, permanent action and change as well as the imparting of culture” is to be created. The choice for the construction planning of this new cultural district was preceded by a competition announced in 1986, which in 1990 was decided in favour of Viennese architects, the brothers Laurids and Manfred Ortner. For the old building a specialist in listed buildings, the architect Manfred Wehdorn, was called in in 1995. Construction planning was concluded in November 1997, from April 1998 the building of the Leopold Museum has been under way and the museum was opened to the public on 22nd September 2001.
Museum Collections	The Leopold Collection is one of the world’s most important collections of Austrian art. The collection, which encompasses well over 5,000 pieces of art, was compiled by Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold in the course of five decades and in 1994 was transferred to the Leopold Museum private foundation with the assistance of the Republic of Austria and the Austrian Nationalbank.
Web site	http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/english/index.html