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class="content__text" Yesterday we had the pleasure of opening the “THE MONSTER HAS TURNED OUT WELL”. 👐 The small exhibition was put together in honour of the painter and draughtsman Herwig Zens, who would have turned 80 this year and his widow, Gerda Zens, who gifted us his work “The Etched Diary”. Today, the diary is regarded as the world’s longest etching. Nine metres of the forty-metres-long artefact are now unrolled and on show in our Bassano Hall on the 2nd floor. They focus on the sections of Herwig Zens’s life connected with the museum. Among our director general Sabine Haag, Nikolaus Kratzer/ @landesgalerie_noe, Viola Rühse / @imckrems, Kalina Strzalkowski / @zeineditions and Vienna Mayor @michaelludwig_official opened the show and were present among many more illoustrus guests, such as Gerda Zens, the late artist’s widow, and Brigitte Bierlein, former Austrian chancellor. Come by and see the show in the second floor of the museum from today on until 29 May.

February 16, 2023

class="content__text" 𝒜𝓅𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝓊𝓂𝒷𝓁𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒? 🍎🫠 Gerard der Borch’s painting ‘The Apple Peeler’ takes us into a cosy kitchen – the perfect place to be on a chilly winter day. This masterpiece is one of our personal favourites. It is fairly small, but if you take a moment to look at it closely, the painting will unfold and create a homely atmosphere. Immediately, we are feeling like being part of the scene. You might wonder what (or who) is the woman preparing those apples for so delicately. And what is she thinking about, while her little daughter is watching attentively. This scene is probably a reference to a moralising epigram: It warns against fulfilling every wish of a child but even more so against doing the same for oneself … Parental care was a popular subject in Dutch painting and literature of the 17th century, and this artwork is a characteristic example of Dutch “fine painting”. Anyway, if you now have the wish to treat yourself with an apple pie or other delicacies, feel free to do so shamelessly. Hint: the @cafekhm in our Cupola Hall serves delicious apple strudel 😛 Gerard ter Borch (1617 Zwolle - 1681 Deventer), The Apple Peeler, c. 1660

February 16, 2023

class="content__text" Welcome to our Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection 👐 Swing by and discover this fascinating part of the museum and learn more about Ancient Egypt, its early beginnings, pyramids, tomb architecture etc. 💫 When stepping inside our doors you will find the entrance on your right. PS: The next guided tour (in German) will take place next Tuesday and it will be all about #selfies. 🤫 „Ägyptische Selfies - Gnadenlos gefiltert oder brutal real?“ Mittagskurzführung mit Melanie Gundacker 21. Februar, 12.30 Uhr

February 16, 2023

class="content__text" ⛩️ 𝒱𝑒𝓇𝒷𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓊𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓃 - 𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 - 𝐵𝓇𝒾𝒹𝑔𝑒𝓈 ⛩️ Mit GANYMED BRIDGE werden wir ab Mai 2023 unendlich viele neue Verbindungen knüpfen. Nicht nur zwischen Kultur und Natur, sondern auch unter uns Menschen. Statt Mauern und Ausgrenzung, bauen wir Brücken und Verbindungslinien. Unser internationales Ensemble sucht bereits bei laufenden Proben nach den Ausdrucksformen, die unsere Kulturen miteinander verbinden. Die Spannung steigt und wir werden wöchentlich von den Proben berichten. Und damit ihr euch schon jetzt auf die Inszenierung freuen können, dürfen wir euch unser Ensemble gleich am Ende des Posts vorstellen. ___ 🇬🇧:With GANYMED BRIGE we will make countless new connections from May 2023 on. Not only between culture and nature, but also amongst us humans. Instead of building walls and exclusion we are forming bridges and are connecting dots. Our international ensemble is already looking for forms of expression, that connect cultures. Stay tuned as we will be keeping you up-to-date with exclusive behind the scenes footage. And to give you an idea on what to expect meet our ensemble virtually here: @monamriahi @mahanmirarab @federspiel_official @mlestew @ptakmart @martineberlemusic @rom.peter @die_strottern @manaho.shimokawa @peterwolf49 @desandras @mercedesymiriam @georgschrattenholzer @mara.romei @david_oberkogler @katringrumeth @raphaelvonbargen_actor @artemenkov.ru @grischka_voss @lukaslauermann @jacquelinekornmueller credits: animation: #michaeliaspichlkastner music: @lukaslauermann #GanymedBridge #KunsthistorischesMuseum #NHMwien #kunstperformances #ganymed2023 #ganymed #rehearsals

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" . 💌 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 💌 Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you – no matter if single, in a relation- or situationship. Get inspired by Bellini’s wonderful ‘Young Woman at her Toilette’ and seize this day to show yourself some affection. #ValentinesDay #SelfLove #KunsthistorischesMuseum #Vienna —— Giovanni Bellini, Young Woman at her Toilette, 1515 © KHM-Museumsverband

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" How about dressing up as a trick goblet this carnival? 🤫🔥 Join us for an #Kunstschatzi evening full of MARDI GRAS MADNESS this #ShroveTuesday and show us what you’ve got. The most creative costume ideas will be awarded with amazing museum prices. 🎭 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 & 𝒘𝒊𝒏 🎭 🔸 2x2 annual passes of the KHM-Museumsverband (incl. 7 museums) 🔸 1 Mystery Hunt for 4-8 people sponsored by @mysterymakers.at 🔸 A giftcard from our beautiful @cafekhm worth 50€ 🔸 A @firasoda Afterwork-Package The winners will be chosen & announced on site! 🖼️ As always there will also be lots of opportunities to enjoy the arts. The short but sweet tours of the night will be even more fun than usual. From themes like “Kings as Fools, Clowns as Tools” or “Völlern und Fasten” our art educators will take you on a festive journey and various tours (in English & German) through the Picture Gallery and the Kunstkammer. 🕺🏽Also: Don’t miss out on the dancefloor shenanigans. The DJs from @radiorudina will sure put you in a wicked carnival mood. And of course our @cafekhm @gourmet.event barkeepers have once again created a special drink for you, most probably served in a trick goblet. 𝑪𝑶𝑺𝑻𝑼𝑴𝑬 𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑺𝑻 Winners will be chosen at 9pm on the dancefloor. 𝑫𝑱-𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑬-𝑼𝑷 hosted by @radiorudina Wicked carnival sounds from 7-11 pm 𝑮𝑼𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑫 𝑻𝑶𝑼𝑹𝑺 From 7.30 to 10 pm every half hour in English & German Good news for our younger party people: The ticket for annual card holders under 25 is now only 5€. Book your tickets now via link in bio! We can’t wait to party with you 🙃👐!

February 14, 2023

class="content__text" This one goes out to all lovers strolling through our Picture Gallery ❣️ Thank you @chico_branco_ for sharing this photo recently captured at our museum. Are you still looking for a special gift for your loved one: take your #Valentine out for a museum visit and enjoy our masterpieces together. 😘 . . . #KunsthistorischesMuseum #Vienna

February 13, 2023

class="content__text" From 7 March we’ll turn the museum on its head. 💫 In just a few weeks from now, we’ll open our next big exhibition BASELITZ. NAKED MASTERS and show one of the most eminent painters of our times in conversation with the Old Masters. Experience the naked truth from unexpected angles and a show, that casts a light on this elementary human condition. 🌜🌛With this exhibition Baselitz enters into a visual dialogue with Cranach, Altdorfer, Baldung Grien, Parmigianino, Correggio, Titian, and Rubens and more. He selected the works himself, focusing on formal and visual criteria. Since his early works, Baselitz has shown a pronounced awareness of art history in his works, being particularly impressed by Mannerism and its breach of rules. Secure your tickets via link in bio now & check our exciting (and uncensored) programme surrounding the show. ____ Georg Baselitz, Finger Painting – Nude, 1972, Private collection, © Georg Baselitz 2023, photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Fall: Adam & Eve, 1510/20 © KHM-Museumsverband

February 11, 2023

class="content__text" „There is no becoming, there is only becoming-with.“ (Donna Haraway) 🕷 GANYMED BRIDGE not only connects #KunsthistorischesMuseum #Vienna with @nhmwien but two worlds that could not be more different: The twin buildings on Vienna’s Ringstrasse become a joint stage. The GANYMED ensemble will take a look behind the (not always visible) connections between culture and nature. 👉 For more Infos & Tickets see link in bio! 🇦🇹 „Wir werden miteinander oder wir werden gar nicht.“ (Donna Haraway) Mit GANYMED BRIDGE verbinden wir nicht nur das Kunsthistorische Museum mit dem Naturhistorischen Museum, sondern zwei Welten, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Die Zwillingsbauten an der Wiener Ringstraße werden dabei zur Bühne für die Kunst, auf der das GANYMED Ensemble einen Blick hinter die nicht immer sichtbaren Verbindungen zwischen Kultur und Natur wagt. 👉 Weitere Infos & Tickets via Link in Bio! Animation: Micha Pichlkastner Sound: Emily Stewart #GanymedBridge #KunsthistorischesMuseum #NHMwien #kunstperformances #ganymed2023 #ganymed

February 10, 2023

class="content__text" #Lovesick? All around us everybody is talking about the upcoming Valentine’s Day. 💖 Shops are full of pastel-colored gifts and beaming hearts. And we also just announced a tour dedicated to Cupid for next Tuesday. But for sure not everyone is in Valentine’s mood. 💔 So, for this week’s interior scene we chose an artwork dedicated to the topic of #lovesickness. This theme can actually be found frequently in Dutch literature and painting of the 17th century. It was usually presented in an ironic manner. ‘The Doctor’s Visit (Lovesick)’ is the title of this painting by Frans van Mieris. And it comes with a surprise: In this scene, the artist painted his newly wed wife. 👰 She was the model for the young lady who is visibly suffering. The doctor is taking her pulse and underscoring his diagnostic with a significant gesture: The young lady is lovesick. 🗝 The key to understanding the painting in its full dimension is the motto“amans amanti medicus” (“only love heals lovers”) and the fact that the artist’s marriage took place in 1657 - the same year he created this artwork. 😉 Mieris’ works were sold during his lifetime at remarkably high prices. Even for wealthy buyers as Archduke Leopold Wilhelm they weren’t easily affordable. 🎨 Together with his teacher, Gerrit Dou (also known as Gerard Dou), Mieris was famous for the so­-called “fine paintings” created in Leiden. The characteristic features of these genre scenes were their small format, great detail and the fact that they were sometimes painted on gilt copper - like today’s painting. The collection of #KunsthistorischesMuseum #Vienna also comprises masterpieces by Gerrit Dou. We will have a look at one of them at the end of this interior series, when we will already be close to springtime and blossoms… 🌷 Who can guess the painting? Stay tuned during the next weeks for more inspiring #interior scenes! Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635 - 1681 Leiden), The Doctor’s Visit (Lovesick), 1657

February 10, 2023

class="content__text" 🏹 Cupid, the god of love, causes great emotions and a bit of chaos - not only on Valentine's Day! Titian and his fellow Old Masters tell a lot about him in their artworks: how #Cupid brings together humans and gods who could not be more different. As a consequence, joy and sorrow are often close together… 💔 Visit us on #ValentinesDay and let’s look over Cupid’s shoulder in the Picture Gallery: Our 30-minute lunchtime tour (in German) with Claudia Hogl is dedicated to the small but mighty god of love. “Die Macht der Liebe 💘 Amor auf der Spur“ Tuesday, 14 February, 12:30 pm Meeting Point: Entrance Hall
 #KunsthistorischesMuseum #Vienna 
🇦🇹 Nicht nur am #Valentinstag sorgt Amor, der Gott der Liebe, für große Gefühle und ein bisschen Chaos. 🏹 Die Alten Meister, Tizian und Co, wissen in ihren Werken einiges über ihn zu erzählen: wie er Menschen und Gött*innen zusammenführt, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Freud und Leid liegen dabei oft nah beieinander. Besucht uns am 14.2. und blickt #Amor bei seinen Unternehmungen über die Schulter: Unsere 30-minütige Mittagskurzführung mit Claudia Hogl in der Gemäldegalerie widmet sich am Valentinstag ganz dem kleinen, aber mächtigen Liebesgott. “Die Macht der Liebe 💘 Amor auf der Spur“ Dienstag, 14. Februar, 12:30 Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich 

Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian (c. 1488 Pieve di Cadore - 1576 Venice), Mars, Venus and Amor, around 1550.

February 10, 2023

class="content__text" KUNSTSCHATZIs are you ready for an evening full of MARDI GRAS MADNESS? Then join us on #ShroveTuesday for the craziest after work event at the museum yet. Throw on the best costume you can find and celebrate the hilarious carnival time with us. It makes sense to get dressed up this time, because the 3 most creative outfits will be honored with an amazing museum prize, like annual cards or a brunch for two at the @cafekhm, for the winners and their friends. The short but sweet tours of the night will also be more colorful and fun than usual. From trick goblets to Bruegel’s “Fight between Carnival and Lent”: our art educators will take you on a festive journey and various tours (in German and English) through the Picture Gallery and the Kunstkammer. We also guarantee at least the same amount of #FUN on the dancefloor, where the DJs from @radiorudina will put you in a wicked carnival mood. And of course our @cafekhm @gourmet.event barkeepers have once again created a special drink for you, most probably served in a trick goblet 😉 🥳 #CostumeContest The best outfits win an amazing museum prize! 🎛 #DJLineUp hosted by @radiorudina Tba 💫 #GuidedTours From 7.30 to 10 pm every half hour in English & German Good news for our younger party people: The ticket for annual card holders under 25 is now only 5€. Book your tickets now via link in bio! We can’t wait to party with you 🙌 —— photo: @j.thiller

January 27, 2023