Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term ''Kunsthistorisches Museum'' applies to both the institution and the main building. It is the largest art museum in the country and one of the most important museums worldwide.Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary opened the facility around 1891 at the same time as the Natural History Museum, Vienna which has a similar design and is directly across Maria-Theresien-Platz. The two buildings were constructed between 1871 and 1891 according to plans by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer. The emperor commissioned the two Ringstraße museums to create a suitable home for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with an octagonal dome high. The interiors of the museums are lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentation, gold-leaf, and murals. The grand stairway features paintings by Gustav Klimt, Ernst Klimt, Franz Matsch, Hans Makart and Mihály Munkácsy. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 2002
Links: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Published: 1988
Superior document: Prag um 1600 Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Kaiser Rudolfs II. ; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ; [24. 11. 1988 - 26. 2. 1989] 2
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Published: 1998
Superior document: Streichbogen Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente und Sammlungen der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien [Beil.]
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Published: 2009-2010;, 2009-
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Published: 1998
Superior document: Streichbogen Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente und Sammlungen der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien [Hauptbd.]
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Published: 1983-
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Published: [1929]
Superior document: Guides to the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts at Vienna 4
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Published: 1998
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Published: 1988
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Published: [2022]
Superior document: Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums Band 22
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Published: 1941
Superior document: Festschrift des Kunsthistorischen Museums zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestandes Teil 1
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Published: 1941/45
Superior document: Festschrift des Kunsthistorischen Museums zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestandes Teil 2, Die Geschichte der Sammlungen, Hälfte 1
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Published: 1941/45
Superior document: Festschrift des Kunsthistorischen Museums zur Feier des fünfzigjährigen Bestandes Teil 2, Die Geschichte der Sammlungen, Hälfte 2
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Published: 1988
Superior document: Prag um 1600 Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Kaiser Rudolfs II. ; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ; [24. 11. 1988 - 26. 2. 1989] 1
Links: Inhaltsverzeichnis; Umschlagbild
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Published: 2003
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Published: [ca., 1958]
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Published: 2019