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Charles Square or Karlsplatz in the original, is one of the most famous of Vienna, both for the magnificent baroque church dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo by an emperor too happy to have escaped the plague as the flags of Metro Secession style created in 1900 by Otto Wagner, two monuments among the most reproduced of the city.
Most visitors stop at these two icons of imperial Vienna, and neglect a building to look more innocuous, completed in 1959 and is perhaps an example of the architecture of postwar Vienna, c that is to say a witness to a time when functionalism precedence over aesthetics, but if the building does not look, it contains in its forbidding exterior a very interesting collection.

Indeed, it is what made the old historical museum of the city of Vienna (Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien), now renamed a less forbidding Museum Vienna Karlspatz either in the original Wien Museum Karlsplatz.

The recent renovation has been successful.

The courtyard has been covered, according to a principle more and more frequently used to make the surface in the old museum, and the space thus created is very pleasant, reached a volume dominated by the transparent glass roof and frame spidery steel, it can give the air museum, without exposing the visitor to the harsh climate of Vienna.
The space thus gained has helped develop a nice little café, pause occasionally join together restorative visit during which he is also surprising that it is held by a Sikh turban in flawless, that we imagine more in the former capital of the Queen and Empress Victoria than in the Emperor and King Francis Joseph.

The lobby itself is thus reached for a small shop, offering such beautiful postcards at very reasonable price of 5.25 francs (0.80 euros), which is significantly less than most museums in Paris after eurhausse the price, and toilets and changing rooms were built in the basement, with this system of caissons key used in the Germanic countries, and my faith much more practical than a wardrobe classic.

Indeed, it presents an overview of the history of Vienna, at least until about 1900, the contemporary period is not really addressed, and an art collection of good level, there is some paintings that more prestigious museums would envy him easily.
The historical overview is fun, though the succession plans for earlier periods is sometimes a little repetitive, we will also meets many medieval stained glass that memories of the siege of Vienna by the Turks, since it was a time when the ‘Ottoman affirmed its Europeanness coming to the camp under the walls of Vienna, there was increasing also invented to commemorate the failed siege of 1683.

The two models of old Vienna in 1854, before the fortifications that surrounded being slaughtered, then in 1897, while the imperial buildings and Ring had replaced, are superb, worthy of plans-reliefs of the Invalids and Lille The model at this level of precision becomes a true work of art, besides being a historical witness firsthand, and it is very pleasant to contemplate the city in miniature, that three-dimensional representation of several meters wide is infinitely a more meaningful level.

The reconstruction of the apartment of writer Grillparzer was also a bravura, with rooms recreated as the furniture is of course that this writer certainly illustrates the concern and recovery has been created to place paintings trompe-l’oeil and lighting recessed windows to make the illusion perfect!

The collection of paintings and sculptures are remarkable.

The eighteenth century is still provincial, mainly represented by portraits of the emperors agreed and their families, Cephalus Johann Michael Rottmayr is yet full of grace throughout Italy, the hunter looked at his companion accidentally injured with a beautiful tenderness. The work’s most striking however is the head of an expression of Franz-Xaver Messerchmidt, especially if this sculptor who in his secret workshop created for thirty years of grimacing heads, strange facial expressions, which were rediscovered in the late twentieth century and looking retrospectively as a precursor.

The nineteenth century saw the triumph of style Biedermeier bourgeois taste equivalent to Louis Philippe in France, and new upper classes are in Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller their best painter, the man certainly sacrificed to portraits food but it was mainly the art of crunching genre worthy of a Greuze, as “Birthday of grandfather” (1845), excellent in the placement of all the characters in this large family in a composition as readable as credible, attentive to all Small details, maternal tenderness of a mother breastfeeding or innocence of a girl player. Other painters in the genus are often significantly more minor, can be fun, however, “The Dairy” (1830) by Peter Fendi, which translates to around Vienna’s misadventure Perrette and milk jug or out “The saleswoman goat milk on the glacis “(1836) Josef Ziegler, the picturesque scene shows a Vienna still confined within its walls, far from its current extension.

The Emperor Francis Joseph I was the victim of an assassination attempt in 1853, which gives the opportunity for a quaint little picture, the simple representation of the scene by Johann Josef Reiner is reminiscent of an ex-voto popular that more ‘to a masterpiece, but the husband finds Sissi his imperial dignity when dealing in marble by Viktor Tilgner, equally at home in this official portrait rather than in the frozen much of the three living children family, while the annals of time are visible in “The Bride of City Hall” (1904) by Wilhelm Gause, a description of the toilet is as thorough as in a painting by James Tissot, and elegant were probably never imagined that fifteen years after the empire would have lived …

Secession was the last blaze of Vienna.

This art movement had its seat total very close to the museum, since the flag of secession is the other side of Charles Square, it is illustrated here by some remarkable pieces of Wiener Werkstätte, those who made Vienna Workshops Items innovative design, but above all by a small but good quality paint.
The little known Josef Engelhart and painted “In the Hall Sophie” (1903), a superb array bill post-Impressionist, one sees a beautiful little fierce offer

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Central Court of the Wien Museum Karlsplatz .. her cleavage to a rich stout, under the gaze of another ribald male protagonist, the theme is that of a Toulouse-Lautrec, but the palette is to be sought in post – French impressionists, the artist had been in Paris, and was doing his original synthesis of current trends.

The “Yellow Woman” (1899) Max Kurzweill deploys her dress as a butterfly’s wings, while Egon Schiele endows Arthur Roessler “a spectral figure, transforming it into a sort of puppet art so special the painter disappeared only 28 years is nicely illustrated in the final room of the museum, his poignant “Young Mother” (1914) forms a striking contrast with the hieratic “Pallas Athene” his eldest Gustav Klimt …

The visit was very pleasant.

The works are often beautiful, and their presentation was very successful, the rooms are spacious and airy, the lights are well thought out, the museum is clearly recent and very pleasant, I just regret the lack of English translations, which requires to lug cartels in German. The museum also organizes temporary exhibitions of small, no extra money, so I could discover the unknown art Marie-Louise von Motezicsky, a student of the German Max Beckmann quite forgotten but not uninteresting, it may be worth if we pass in the corner to check if there would be no expo and some original hand a look at a museum whose permanent collection anyway suffice to justify the visit.

The Vienna Museum Karlsplatz is unjustly overlooked.

The rooms of this museum very interesting are often nearly empty, the flow of tourists is limited to the imperial museums or at best the new museum district, and yet they contain small treasures, ranging from scenic or historical memories Masters paintings.
Visitors will delight in particular small masterpieces of Waldmüller which certainly deserves to be better known, and of course the mighty works of Egon Schiele, the meteor which was extinguished at the same time as Vienna ’s fell asleep after his century of imperial splendor …