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| nuthatch | profile | all galleries >> Alpine driving loop >> return to Vienna, Auf Wiedersehen | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 after a short drive from Graz, we're back at our starting point in Vienna |
 here's the Secession building, a landmark of Viennese Jugendstil artists |
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 a model of the building, from 1897 |
 some of the Secession artists, including Klimt and Moser |
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 out on the street, we pass a monument to Schiller |
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 a detail of the opera house |
 Tom and Marla at a war memorial |
 in the Imperial Crypt of the Habsburgs, under the Capuchin church |
 30 emperors and empresses are entombed here, along with their families |
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 back up for air, we visit a tribute to the Vienna Philharmonic and the city's musical past... |
 ...at the 'music house' museum |
 a memento from the orchestra's visit to Buenos Aires |
 Tom checks out a gigantic drum... |
 ...while Jay and Marla are immersed in a sound room |
 a 3D display of sound in intensity, frequency, and time |
 speaking of music: the opera house at night |
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 and Mr. Mozart points the way back to our hotel for the night |
 the next day, we go exploring again |
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 anyone with a wreath, please hold it up! |
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 at the Hofburg gardens, the Jugendstil butterfly house... |
 ...a tropical hothouse from the time of Franz Joseph |
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 Tom is not impressed by Marla's analysis of Papilionoidea aerodynamics... |
 ...but the judges appear favorable |
 still at the Hofburg, we stop in the Augustine church to listen to organ practice... |
 ...and rest a bit |
 then it's off to the Postsparkasse building again, this time inside... |
 ...for a temporary exhibit on designs by Carl Hagenauer and sons |
 but the focus in the museum is on Otto Wagner and the building he created |
 one of the original plans submitted to the design competition |
 an original cashier area of the savings bank |
 the halls preserve original design details... |
 ...including the glass-block floors used to distribute light in the main hall |
 there are also original designs for other Wagner buildings in Vienna... |
 ...some of which we go visit! |
 detail of the Neustiftgasse 40 apartment builing |
 detail of the Döblergasse 4 building around the corner |
 and now we are off on a streetcar across town... |
 ...to visit the Landstrasse district... |
 ...home to the Hundertwasserhaus |
 another Vienna landmark building, from the 1980's |
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 just a block away are some heavyweight architectural competitors, however |
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 a bird theme on this building |
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 nearly all the buildings on this block are beautifully ornamented |
 another 20th-c. artwork |
 heading across the old town center, we pass many other marvels |
 this was the business office of a coffee trader |
 an image of coffee growing |
 is this really the only photo of the three of us? |
 on the Graben by Stephansdom, more architectural details |
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 on the Kohlmarkt |
 at Michaelerplatz, demons lose again |
 visible Roman roots to Vienna |
 sunset on the Heldenplatz |
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 looking across the Volksgarten on our way 'home' |
 our last morning in Vienna, we head into the Neubau... |
 ...a small but active neighborhood west of the Museumsquartier |
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 then out to Linke Wienzeile, the left bank of the Vienna river... |
 ...home to many architectural gems across from the Naschmarkt |
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 here's a pair of Otto Wagner buildings |
 No. 40 is the 'Majolica House', with floral decoration by Alois Ludwig |
 No. 38 has decoration by Koloman Moser |
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 time to move on again! |
 back at St. Stephen's cathedral, a nice set of memorials attached to the exterior |
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 and on the Graben again, our eyes zoom out and in |
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 another Wagner building, the Ankerhaus |
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 now back to the Hofburg, we visit the national library in the State Hall |
 it's an 18th-c. library building with 200,000 books from 1501 to 1850... |
 ...and an exhibition space |
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 the collections are registered in UNESCO's memory of the world program |
 some volumes are out for digitizing; Austria plans to put the entire collection online soon |
 leaving the Hofburg complex... |
 ...we head for the Kunsthistorisches museum |
 the late 19th-c. building itself is a marvel |
 lunettes by 19th-c. artists, of artists from earlier periods |
 Klimt pays tribute to his sources in classical and Egyptian art |
 the collection of European art is deep; here, Titian's 'Gypsy Madonna' |
 we concentrate on the oldest parts of the galleries, starting with works from the Near East |
 an impressive collection of mummies and cases |
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 a spectacular carved sarcophagus... |
 ...with reliefs inside and out... |
 ...on top of lovely marble |
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 the gallery itself is wonderful, a late-19th-c. delight |
 moving into the Greek and Roman gallery |
 the lighting in the galleries is probably the best we've seen |
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 at day's end, Austria bids us farewell... |