Belvedere Museum, 2022: 2

 Continuing our visit to the Belvedere palace and its museum...

Klimt, Forester's House in Weissenbach on the Attersee, 1914

Egon Schiele, House Wall, 1914

Schiele, The Embrace, 1917; The Foreplay was on loan somewhere else

Schiele, Squatting Couple, 1918; actually a threesome, but who's
counting?

Schiele, Death and the Maiden, 1915

Franz Wiegele, Nudes in the Forest, 1910-1911

Arnold Bocklin, The Painter Franz von Lenbach, 1904;

saw his work in Berlin, some of it

Gustav Klimt, Amalie Zuckerkandl, 1917-1918; over his gold period

Karl Klager, Arrival of a Train at Vienna Northwestern Station, 1875;

compare Monet's Gare Saint-Lazaire, 1877

One of the reasons for visiting the Belvedere is the views of inner
Vienna...here, St. Stephen's with the chancel roof double eagle 
showing; to the left, is Hundertwasser's incinerating art work, 
blowing smoke; the subject of a coming post...

Belvedere's formal gardens

Jean-Francois Millet, The Plain of Chailly with Harrow and Plough, 1862

Vincent van Gogh, The Plain of Auvers, 1890; interesting pairing, as
Millet was one of van Gogh's heroes; earlier...

Gustave Courbet, A Wounded Man, 1866

Most interesting thing at the Belvedere...The Znaim Altarpiece,
carved polychrome reliefs, Moravia, 1440-1445, largely original
polychromy; 1440, folks...the rest of Europe was just barely
working its way out of international Gothic...this thing is full
Renaissance in terms of its emotional expression, etc.

Not least this guy sticking his tongue out at the Mother of God...

Adjacent to the Belvedere is the University of Vienna botanical
garden...most labels on plants I've ever seen...but it was end of
October and most of the plants were spent