080062 EX Viennese Art: Masterpieces of European Painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (2024W)

Students become more familiar with the art and architecture of the city, the collections of Vienna's museums and the local art scene. They practise understanding works of art in their materiality and their specific spatial and institutional context, while contributing their own observations, questions and suggestions for interpretation to a joint discussion.

The focus of the excursion is on analyzing selected paintings from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Participants will learn more about the style, iconography and history of a number of works created between the 15th and 18th centuries. Presentations and discussions in front of the objects are intended to sharpen the eye for painting methods, techniques and stylistic peculiarities. At the same time, iconography, pictorial narrative and questions of imitation of models will be addressed. The aim is to achieve a comparative, more coherent and more precise view of works of art. The course also deals with aspects of the museum presentation of early modern works, their context of origin and their provenance.