Afternoon at the Albertina!

Hello everyone!!

If you like contemporary art, modern art, impressionism and Schiele, you can’t miss the Albertina museum ! There’s the amazing permanent collection “From Monet to Picasso“ in which you can admire more the most important artists of the last two centuries, with some awesome paintings of the puntinismo and impressionist period ! Then there are always two or three short term exhibitions that change every 4 or 5 months !

(I’m sorry, you missed the Italian beauties exposition!)                           

Right now and until the 18th of June there’s an amazing exhibition of Egon Schiele ! I really appreciate the fact that everything was well explained in English (and of course in German too) and that you can really relate to this complex man.

I already knew this artist but I didn’t know a lot about his background and his psychology under the paintings… even if his paintings can seem a little negative and not always full of joy, he’s in love with life and with human kind especially ! A good quantities of quotes from Schiele himself are on the walls and they really lead you during the whole exhibition, making you understand better his complex figure and thoughts! One that I really liked was: “At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.”

And if you’re thinking to go more than one time at the Albertina you better become a Freunde der Albertina, which allow you to go any time you want paying the card price and nothing else (I took the Student’s semester card and it’s just 15 euro, so less then paying the entry ticket twice ! I already used it four times so.. it worth it!).