Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Leopold

In the afternoon we visited the museum of fine arts or the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Located on the ring road around the inner city, the fine arts museum faces an identical Natural History Museum. Inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Klimt has designed artworks on the main stairway and had other works inside the gallery. Most of the works relate to the Old Masters from Italy, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands including Rembrandt, Pieter Brueghel and Archimboldo with his very alternative portraits assembled from food harvests and seasons of the year.

An artist copying the painting style of one of Brueghel’s artworks

Part of Klimt’s stairway

One of Archimboldo’s harvest portraits

The 25,900 year old Venus of Willendorf st the Natural History Museum

Across the road in the Museums Quartier is the Leopold Museum, a gallery of modern and contemporary art. Our late afternoon visit enabled us to see works by the Viennese Secession and a temporary exhibition called ‘Wow’ that certainly lived up to its name with Damien Hirst, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Picasso and whole range of modern masters.