Viennese Delights with Patrick Bade

Fin de Siecle Vienna 1890-WWI

Vienna was the capital of the 20th century. The intellectual life of the city, its architecture, sights and sounds, and new colors were for a new world waiting to be born. It was a time of charm, elegance, and intellectual progress all born in Viennese cafes.

Viennese portraits – Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl

While Gustav Klimt celebrated the beauty of Viennese women, Egon Schiele probed the psyche of many of Vienna’s leading intellectuals and artists and before his untimely suicide. Richard Gerstl painted some of the most haunting and disturbing self portraits in Western art.

In the series:
May 21: Concert life in Vienna: From Brahms to Schoenberg
May 28: Architecture and Design in Vienna: From Biedermeier to Secession
June 4: Viennese portraits – Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl
July 9: Alma Mahler: Vienna’s Femme Fatale