Museums, museums and more museums

Well, we're exhausted.
Our brains have expanded a million percent.
And we're mostly incredibly impressed and inspired (there was one not-so-good... awful exhibit)

Saturday we went to the: Kunsthaus Wien (Built by and showcasing works by the artist Hundertwasswer).

This blew my mind. Never had I seen his work, been to a museum like this one, etc. It was crazy. Here's the description:
In the former Thonet buildings a new cultural landmark has been created for Vienna. A forum for important international museums exhibitions, a home for the work of Hundertwasser, a museum that makes you feel at home. A house not corresponding to the usual cliches and norms, an adventure of modern times, a journey into the land of creative architecture, a melody for the eyes and the feet.

Nothing was a straight line... expect the bathroom stall doors. It was amazing to feel like you were hiking indoors.. .to feel that everything around you, the art, the building, the floors, the walls.. everything were dynamic parts of an overall work of intense creativity. That every step you took was just as unique and different from the person next to you as the way in which you viewed his paintings on the walls.

So, Hundertwasser was more than an artist -- he also had some pretty interesting ideas on the environment, nature, ecological building, etc. Here's some photos of his architecture, including the Kunsthaus Wien:



This I believe is a Ronald MacDonald house:


Painting examples:




Anyway, I'm posting some bad photos from the hallways and cafe, since I couldn't take any inside, but SERIOUSLY, take a look at this link and read and explore some of his philosophies and images...
http://www.kunsthauswien.com/deutsch/hundertwasser.htm












Then today, we went to the Leopold, also at the MQ, where Sean is living. I loved this museum as well. It was here that we all met Klimt and Egon Schiele.

So Klimt was interesting, but Schiele was incredible!

He died at 28 from the flu... 3 days after his wife. Very sad. In fact almost everything in the musuem was very sad. But, Austrian life during the turn of the century and through both wars went through alot.

Here's the Leopold:

(during the summer, mind you)

To give you an idea of depressing art, but interesting:

Here's Klimt's Medicine mural (recreated because it was burned during the WWII):


Klimt's Life and Death:


This is by Schiele of him and Klimt:


Schiele himself:


Now, we'll have dinner and then we're heading to the Kunstlerhaus Wien for the Berlin group: Gob Squad.
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