Picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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The picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an art museum in Vienna .

history

The basis of the collection was formed in the 18th century with the annually award-winning prize pieces and works by the members of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1822 Anton Franz von Lamberg-Sprinzenstein (1740–1822) left his famous collection of paintings to the Academy. Since 1877 the picture gallery has been located in the building on Schillerplatz that was built by Theophil von Hansen for the art academy.

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Duration

The Gemäldegalerie comprises around 1,600 paintings from early Italian panel painting of the 14th and 15th centuries to paintings around the academy from the 18th and early 19th centuries. These include the Last Judgment triptych by Hieronymus Bosch , as well as works by Lucas Cranach , Rembrandt van Rijn , Peter Paul Rubens , Tizian , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Giovanni Antonio Guardi .

  • Last Judgment Trryptych, Hieronymus Bosch

  • Coronation of Mary, Dierick Bouts around 1450

  • Madonna with child and two angels, Sandro Botticelli around 1490

  • The circumcision of Christ, Peter Paul Rubens 1605

  • Adolescent self-portrait, Anthony van Dyck around 1615

literature

  • Robert Eigenberger : The picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna . 2 volumes. Manz, Vienna 1927.
  • Renate Trnek: The picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The collection at a glance . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-205-98699-7 .
  • René Schober: "... since damaging it would not represent a loss of irreplaceable cultural values". Salvages and war losses of the Academic Picture Gallery in the Second World War. In: Pia Schönberger, Sabine Loitfellner (Hrsg.): Salvage of cultural property in National Socialism. Myths - Background - Effects (= series of publications by the Commission for Provenance Research. 6). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, pp. 149–174 (excerpt from Google Books ).
  • C. Sylvia Weber (Ed.): Hidden Treasures from Vienna. Masterpieces by Dürer, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Rubens, Amerling, Klimt and Hundertwasser, among others. The art collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna are guests at the Kunsthalle Würth . Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelau 2017, ISBN 978-3-89929-347-0 .

Web links

Commons : Picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: Academy: Picture gallery director leaves. In: DerStandard.at . June 21, 2020, accessed June 22, 2020 .