Art
The Cutting Satire of Hannah Höch’s Collages
One of the inventors of modern collage, Höch’s sociopolitical imagery skewered the politicians and culture of early and mid-20th-century Germany.
Belvedere Museum
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Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Highlights Three Early Modernists Who Straddled Europe and Asia
For the first time in three centuries the Belvedere Museum is displaying creations by artists who are not Austrian and have no connection to Austrian art.
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What Are Messerschmidt’s Bizarre 18th-century Sculpted Heads Trying To Tell Us?
For Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, his Character Heads were his way to forestall the demons that tortured him.
Art
Discovering the Women of Art Brut
In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.
Art
Egon Schiele’s Impudent Offspring
Tracing Egon Schiele’s lineage, forward and backward in time.
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Austria’s Oswald Oberhuber: A Lifetime of Unstoppable Art-Making, Observed
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Achtung, baby! The time has come for a comprehensive examination of the wildly diverse, voluminous oeuvre of the Austrian modern artist Oswald Oberhuber.