Belvedere Museum
Vienna, Austria
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Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Vienna, Austria
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€19.50 (under 19 free)
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The Belvedere comprises two Baroque palaces built between 1714 and 1723 for Prince Eugene of Savoy, Austria's greatest military commander. Architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt created the Upper Belvedere as a ceremonial reception hall, connected by formal gardens to the Lower Belvedere which served as the prince's summer residence. Empress Maria Theresa acquired the complex in 1752 and opened portions to the public in 1781, making it one of the world's first public museums.
The Upper Belvedere now houses Austrian art from the Middle Ages to the present, with the world's largest collection of Gustav Klimt paintings. His The Kiss draws enormous crowds, its gold-leaf surface shimmering in the gallery light. Death and Life shows a darker side of Klimt's vision. Works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka represent Austrian Expressionism, while Caspar David Friedrich anchors the Romantic holdings. The Austrian State Treaty ending Allied occupation was signed in the Marble Hall in 1955.
Visiting Belvedere Museum
Gustav Klimt's The Kiss (1908) is the star of the collection. It's Austria's most recognized artwork and the centerpiece of the museum's Symbolist and Art Nouveau galleries.
Death and Life (1915) is another major Klimt painting on display. The museum holds the world's largest Klimt collection, including Judith and several landscape paintings. They're all in the Upper Belvedere.
The Upper Belvedere is a Baroque palace built in the early 1700s for Prince Eugene of Savoy. Formal gardens connect it to the Lower Belvedere. Caspar David Friedrich's Fog hangs in the Romantic galleries.
In the third district, south of the city center. The Hauptbahnhof train station is a short walk away. Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller's Children at a Window (1853) hangs in the Biedermeier rooms upstairs.
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