Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum ("Museum of Art History") is the most prominent art museum in Vienna, Austria. The main museum is in a Ringstraße building, on Maria Theresien-Platz.

Affiliated with the Vienna museum, and officially part of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are:

• The Lipizzaner Museum in the Stallburg (Vienna)
• Ambras Castle (Innsbruck)
• The Museum of Ethnology (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
• The Austrian Theatre Museum (Vienna, affiliated in 2001)
• The Imperial Treasury (Schatzkammer)
• The Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments in the Neue Burg (Sammlung alter Musikinstrumente)
• The Collection of Arms and Armour in the Neue Burg (Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)
• The Museum of Carriages and Department of Court Uniforms in Schloß Schönbrunn (Wagenburg und Monturdepot)

Among the most important works in the picture galery are:

• Jan van Eyck: "Cardinal Niccolò Albergati" ("Kardinal Niccoló Albergati"), 1438
• Albrecht Dürer: "Adoration of the Trinity" (Anbetung der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit), 1511
• Giuseppe Arcimboldo: "Summer" (Sommer), 1563
• Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: " Madonna of the Rosary" (Die Rosenkranzmadonna) 1606/07
• Peter Paul Rubens: "Ildefonso Altar" (Der Altar des hl. Ildefonso), 1630–32
• Peter Paul Rubens: "The Fur" (Das Pelzchen), um 1638
• Johannes Vermeer: "The Artists Studio" (Die Malkunst), 1665/66
• Pieter Brueghel the Elder:
  • "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" (Kampf zwischen Fasching und Fasten), 1559
  • "Children's Games" (Kinderspiele), 1560
  • "The Tower of Babel" (Turmbau zu Babel), 1563
  • "The Procession to Calvary" (Kreuztragung Christi), 1564
  • "The Gloomy Day (Feb.-Ma.)" (Düsterer Tag (Vorfrühling)), 1565
  • "The Return of the Herd (Oct.-Nov.)" (Heimkehr der Herde (Herbst)), 1565
  • "The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.-Jan.)" (Jäger im Schnee (Winter)), 1565
  • "The Peasant and the Nest Robber" (Bauer und Vogeldieb), 1568
  • "The Peasant Wedding" (Bauernhochzeit), 1568/69
  • "The Peasant Dance" (Bauerntanz), 1568/69

External link

• Official site (in English)