Our second Jugernstil (Art Nouveau) walk led us past the Secession museum and into the Naschmarkt before getting us to the Linke Wienzeile...but we knew that the Academy of Fine Arts was just a block or two away and that it contained the Bosch Last Judgement triptych. Indeed, we'd seen the Judgement in 2010 (no fotos!), and seen Cranach's copy of it last month in Berlin. Any Bosch will do for us, but the triptychs, with all their myriad, lurid details are best. Putting our Jugendstil interest on pause, we made our way to the Akademie, which has, as one might expect, a fine collection of European painting in addition to all its other collections. It is a fine arts institution of higher education with a short but illustrious history. Before getting to the Bosch, I'll post a few pix from the Akademie's painting collection, which were on display as part of a special exhibition of student work juxtaposed against the masters. (The student work has not stood the test of time...).
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| The Akademie, beautiful neo-classical building |
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| Lecture hall: pretty formidable! |
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| Ceilings throughout done in Pompeii style |
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| Never miss a Claude Lorraine: Forest Lane with Herd and Herdsmen, 1633 |
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| Van Ruisdael, Forest Glade, 1646 |
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| One of several nice Rembrandt inks, Landscape with Haybarn and a Flock of Sheep, 1652 |
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| Rembrandt, Portrait of Someone Other Than Himself, 1632 |
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| Cranach, Lucretia, 1532 |
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| Rubens, Venus Freezing, 1614; OK, if she's freezing, why doesn't she put on some clothes? Compare Venus Frigida, here |
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| The Biggie, Bosch's Last Judgement, c. 1482; details at 10... |
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| Nice Botticelli tondo; oops, didn't get the title nor date |
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| Detail |
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| Joos van Cleve, Holy Family, c. 1520; I guess Joseph is wearing glasses so as to look old and decrepit and ... |
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| Durer engraving, The Holy Family with Dragonfly, 1495; I maintain, of course, that Durer would have been far more highly esteemed as a painter had he not spent so much time fiddling around with that printing press scheme... |
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| Hans Baldung Grien, Holy Family in the Meadow, 1512; rather a different depiction of Mary than we're accustomed to seeing... |
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| Another Durer, Virgin and Child Seated by a Tree, 1513 |
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| Cranach workshop, Mother and Child with Grapes, 1540 |
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| In the park, Goethe overseeing it all |
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| Added bonus: pretty Mother and Child, right? It's a 1913 oil painting by one Adolf Schicklgruber (aka Hitler), whom the Academy rejected as a drawing student in both 1907 and 1908; Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's 2001 novel The Alternative Hypothesis explores what might have happened had the selection committee admitted him and he stayed in the art world rather than becoming a politician...something to think about if you're on an admissions or hiring committee...and also consider this... |
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