Albertina - Amazing Modern Art Museum in Vienna Full Tour! Monet to Chagall — Transcript
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- 0:02[Music]
- 0:07this is the Albertina in Vienna Austria
- 0:12the museum started off as one of the
- 0:13most important print collections in the
- 0:15world but it also now maintains an
- 0:18impressive modern art collection the
- 0:20Albertina is located right in the heart
- 0:22of Imperial Vienna adjacent to the
- 0:25hofberg complex of the hopsbergs it was
- 0:27built in the late 17th century as the
- 0:29court construction office however in the
- 0:3218th century it was converted into the
- 0:35Palace of Duke Albert of Sac centeshen
- 0:37who owned a large collection of historic
- 0:39prints the palace and collection stayed
- 0:42in the family for centuries until after
- 0:44World War One when the residing Archduke
- 0:46was evicted by the new States and They
- 0:49confiscated the building and print
- 0:50collection hence it became the Albertina
- 0:53expanding into a world-renowned
- 0:55collection of over a million prints and
- 0:57drawings
- 0:58outside the Albertina on a small
- 1:00elevated square is an equestrian statue
- 1:03of a former resident of the palace the
- 1:06Archduke Albrecht of teschen
- 1:07[Music]
- 1:10this Square overlooks the stock soaper
- 1:12the state Opera Vienna that opened in
- 1:151869
- 1:23[Music]
- 1:26there's also a view over the memorial
- 1:28against war and fascism which appears to
- 1:31be a horse and carriage ride loading
- 1:33station
- 1:35and there's a green bunny based on
- 1:37durer's hair here at the Albertina on
- 1:40top of a sausage stand
- 1:45while much of the palace has been
- 1:46converted into modern gallery and
- 1:48archive space some ornate rooms are
- 1:50preserved in their original condition
- 1:53[Music]
- 1:57here in the entrance hall to the
- 1:58exhibitions is a statue of Mars
- 2:05since the early 2000s several tremendous
- 2:09private art collections such as the bat
- 2:10lunar and Huber collections have been
- 2:13either bequeath to or on permanent loan
- 2:15to the Albertina so that is what we are
- 2:17going to see first
- 2:22the first room begins with some great
- 2:24impressionist pieces then it goes on
- 2:26from there this is a gray nude in
- 2:29profile by Pierre Bernard from 1933 he
- 2:32was a member of the Nabi Group after the
- 2:34Impressionists but they certainly
- 2:36utilize the impressionist coloristic
- 2:38experience in their paintings
- 2:40here's a white horse named gazelle by
- 2:43Henri detoulouse-lautrec which he made
- 2:45in 1881 at the Chateau de boss near Alby
- 2:48France where he usually spent his
- 2:50holidays to lose the truck originally
- 2:52painted dogs and horses when he started
- 2:54drawing so this one goes back to his
- 2:56roots
- 2:58this is a portrait of a young girl named
- 3:00Elizabeth maitra by Pierre August Renoir
- 3:03this girl was the niece of Edmund maitra
- 3:06an art collector friend of renoirs
- 3:10here is the house among the Roses by
- 3:13Claude Monet a depiction of his home in
- 3:15javerney from his latter years
- 3:17[Music]
- 3:20this is the water Lily Pond a classic
- 3:24water lily scene paint by Claude Monet
- 3:26added Jivani Garden between 1917 and
- 3:291919. this one has no horizon line or
- 3:32symmetry even and is a play between
- 3:35objectivity and abstraction going Way
- 3:38Beyond impressionism
- 3:42[Music]
- 3:44here is a landscape by Alfred Cecily
- 3:47from 1885 called Murray the banks of the
- 3:50river Luan
- 3:51[Music]
- 3:53here is one of Monet's Innovative Cruise
- 3:56paintings from 1885 in this he plays
- 3:59with the Confluence of the river cruise
- 4:00and the pity Cruise as well as the
- 4:02elevations and rock projections
- 4:06this is the view of vets wheel painted
- 4:08by Claude Monet in 1881 he lived in this
- 4:11small village along the Sun for many
- 4:13years
- 4:14[Music]
- 4:18this is the sunset at duarnine by Renoir
- 4:27classic ballet dancer seen by Edgar
- 4:30Degas from 1905.
- 4:33the farm in Normandy by Paul Cezanne
- 4:37utilizes color fragments that evoke
- 4:39closeness and distance as well as
- 4:41three-dimensionality
- 4:42[Music]
- 4:45there is a collection of pointless works
- 4:48as well a placard in here puts it well
- 4:51that the little expressive dots creates
- 4:54an atmosphere of solemn motionlessness
- 4:55removed from time here is paulsonat's
- 4:59pointillistic depiction of the towers at
- 5:00antibe
- 5:03this is a Venetian scene by Paul sydniak
- 5:06called Venice the pink cloud like Monet
- 5:09who also visited Venice around the same
- 5:12time he uses cold and warm tones of
- 5:14color
- 5:16this is the Golden Horn Mist by Paul
- 5:18sydniak from 1907 depicting Istanbul
- 5:25that is a female semi-nude by emidio
- 5:27medigliani
- 5:29this is part of a group of paintings he
- 5:31did in 1918 using these same Anonymous
- 5:33red-haired model in various poses
- 5:36this one definitely evokes Botticelli's
- 5:38Venus
- 5:40here is a street in our Queen by Henry
- 5:42Matisse from 1903 in his Boba style
- 5:45using unprecedented color saturation
- 5:51the influence of policy nass pointillism
- 5:53is evident in these parrot tulips from
- 5:551905. however Matisse brings an
- 5:58intensity of color it kind of looks like
- 6:00fireworks
- 6:01[Music]
- 6:04here's a still life with fruit bowl by
- 6:06Maurice devlomink
- 6:07[Music]
- 6:10Georges bra created this painting the
- 6:12Bay of Antwerp in 1906 when he was 23
- 6:15years old and heavily inspired by
- 6:17foveism for a little while longer before
- 6:19turning to cubism
- 6:22this is The Harbor at caliora by Andre
- 6:25Duran
- 6:28Duran and Matisse met in the southern
- 6:30France town in 1905.
- 6:33[Music]
- 6:39here is a rowing boat at Chateau by
- 6:42Maurice de flamink
- 6:43featuring The Paris suburb where he
- 6:45lived as well as Andre Duran
- 6:48these are nudes with flamingos by Robert
- 6:50de lunae
- 6:54and this is the Blue Room by Edward
- 6:55Villard
- 6:59honoring [ __ ] painted this back view
- 7:01of a nude under trees at Villa Demir in
- 7:041905
- 7:07and this is a bread and woman portrayed
- 7:09by Paul Gauguin from 1888. Gogan paying
- 7:12many scenes of Brands around the small
- 7:13town of pontavon and Brittany
- 7:18there are many works by members of the
- 7:20Blau writer or blue Rider group such as
- 7:23these horses by a lake by Heinrich
- 7:24kempendonk
- 7:27this is a forest interior with bird by
- 7:29friends mark from 1912. it definitely
- 7:32shows that he was inspired by the
- 7:33movement and speed of the Italian
- 7:35futurists of this period this work is
- 7:37somewhat of a new symbiosis of abstract
- 7:39painting also influenced by cubism and
- 7:42orphism
- 7:43this is the pensive Woman by Alexi Von
- 7:46dolinski which is dominated by
- 7:48expressive unnatural and contrasting
- 7:50colors very interesting
- 7:53this is Blue Horse 2 by Franz mark
- 7:57one of his Classic Blue Horses
- 8:00[Music]
- 8:08here is the Avenger by earn sparlock
- 8:13this Japanese influence young girl with
- 8:15a flowered Hat by Alexi Von yolensky
- 8:18certainly takes influence from the foes
- 8:22Blau writes remember August Maca uses
- 8:24Cuba's form along with bright colors in
- 8:26this depiction of duisburg Harbor from
- 8:281914 he was killed in the war later that
- 8:31year
- 8:32and this is a colored composition of
- 8:34forms by maca
- 8:39this is a variation landscape
- 8:42improvisation one a musically based
- 8:44painting by yelensky similar to
- 8:46kandinsky's improvisations
- 8:50this is the night Prowler by Marianne
- 8:52vonverfkin who was yolenski's longtime
- 8:55partner and herself an important German
- 8:57expressionist
- 8:59this is called with red swallow pattern
- 9:02wallpaper by olinski from 1915.
- 9:06and here's a fantastic work of Miriam
- 9:08vonverfkin called stormy night paint in
- 9:11the same year
- 9:12[Music]
- 9:15another crucial German expressionist
- 9:17group was dibruca this still life with
- 9:20yellow tulips was painted in 1912 by
- 9:22Carl Schmidt rotluff noticed the
- 9:24primitivist nude in the background
- 9:27these are two nudes in a room by
- 9:29dibruca's leader Aarons Ludwig kirschner
- 9:32the figures are influenced by cubism and
- 9:34African sculpture
- 9:36this is a female nude of Dodo by
- 9:39kirschner depicting his lover and
- 9:41favorite model in Dresden dodo
- 9:45this is a Kirchner cityscape of the
- 9:47train station approach lobao train
- 9:49station in 1911 one of the last Works he
- 9:52did in Dresden
- 9:55after the broca group disbanded in 1913
- 9:58Ian kirschner suffered in service during
- 10:00the war and then in sanitariums he
- 10:03finally settled into a health resort in
- 10:051918 where he enjoyed painting the
- 10:07nearby Mountain Landscapes and grazing
- 10:09cattle this one is called cattle at
- 10:11sunsets
- 10:13this is a reclining Woman by Eric Heckel
- 10:16from 1909
- 10:19this one is titled peace from 1915 by
- 10:22Augusto giacometti
- 10:25here's a portrait of MB by Herbert vocal
- 10:29and this is called two girls with poodle
- 10:30by Otto Mohler painted in the 1920s
- 10:36this is a forest scene paint by Emil
- 10:38nolda in 1909 he later became one of the
- 10:41most targeted quote-unquote degenerate
- 10:43artists
- 10:46Nilda painted this moonlit night in 1914
- 10:49inspired by his experiences on a
- 10:52scientific expedition to the South Seas
- 10:54the year before
- 10:55[Music]
- 10:58this one is called melting snow in the
- 11:00City by Alphonse valda
- 11:03[Music]
- 11:05Max peshstein painted these irises in
- 11:07the evening shadows in 1925.
- 11:10[Music]
- 11:12this is the garden with Autumn flowers
- 11:14painted in 1934 by Emil nolda would she
- 11:17painted during his time in seclusion at
- 11:19the Village of sebel in schleswig
- 11:21Holstein
- 11:22here are the bathing girls at the forest
- 11:24Pond by Otto Mohler painted sometime
- 11:27during the Great War emphasizing the
- 11:29ibruka's views on nature
- 11:32and this is a fantastic winter landscape
- 11:34by Edvard monk from 1915.
- 11:38dreary winter landscapes did become a
- 11:40common subject of the troubled artist
- 11:44here is a portrayal of Dresden by Oscar
- 11:47kokoshka from 1923. he was perhaps the
- 11:50most important Austrian expressionist in
- 11:52the inner War period
- 11:53[Music]
- 11:56this is a girl with necklace painted by
- 11:58kokoshka in 1930 a portrait of a girl on
- 12:01the Isle of gerba off the Tunisian Coast
- 12:04and here's a view of Bernie leban
- 12:06painted by kokoshka during his journeys
- 12:08in southern France and Spain he had to
- 12:10wait in this French Pyrenees town for
- 12:12five days for his entry Visa into Spain
- 12:14during which he painted this view out
- 12:16his hotel room window
- 12:19here is a portrayal of the East River in
- 12:22New York City by wilhem Tony
- 12:24sadly much of the work of this Austrian
- 12:26artist was destroyed in a warehouse fire
- 12:28during his own lifetime that really
- 12:30sucks
- 12:32there are some great examples of new
- 12:34objectivity painting an Austrian
- 12:36movement which contrasted kokoshka's
- 12:38expressionism during the 1920s
- 12:40[Music]
- 12:43this is the big Port by Herbert von rail
- 12:45Hanish which he called a landscape of
- 12:48the Soul
- 12:50foreign
- 12:57who was the curator of the Technology
- 12:59Museum here in Vienna created these
- 13:02scenes of magic realism these are
- 13:04fantastic
- 13:06[Music]
- 13:09this one is called the ghost in the tree
- 13:11from 1933. that's definitely a haunting
- 13:14picture
- 13:17this is a self-portrait with doll by
- 13:20Rudolph vacker which he painted after he
- 13:22was freed from his long wartime
- 13:24imprisonment in Russia
- 13:26and here is a classic abstract work of
- 13:29vasley Kandinsky from 1930.
- 13:33this one is called yellow paint from
- 13:351924.
- 13:38and here is a much earlier study for
- 13:40composition 7 from 1912.
- 13:44there are also several works by Paul
- 13:47clay this is a figurine called The Fool
- 13:49from
- 13:501927. here is a landscape by Paul clay
- 13:53set between winter and spring his
- 13:56Landscapes rarely showed any real sights
- 13:58but rather imaginary places
- 14:01and there are several more Clays in this
- 14:03small hallway
- 14:06I like the fairy tale of the dwarf here
- 14:10and this is the blue coat created by
- 14:13Clay in 1940 with pigmented wax
- 14:16[Music]
- 14:22this is a Cuba futurist landscape called
- 14:25The High Shore by Lionel feininger who
- 14:27taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar
- 14:29[Music]
- 14:31and this is an earlier work of finding
- 14:33Earth from 1915 titled Promenade and
- 14:36arquille showing a Bourgeois family in
- 14:39front of a Paris aqueducts
- 14:42and this is a locomotive by Lionel
- 14:44feininger from 1910 he created lots of
- 14:47depictions of steam engines for comic
- 14:49strips in the Sunday Chicago Tribune
- 14:51during that time
- 14:52here is a woman with cat by Max Beckman
- 14:55painted while he was an exile in
- 14:57Amsterdam during the war
- 14:59and here is beckman's self-portrait in a
- 15:01hotel from 1932. the last self-portrait
- 15:05he created in Frankfurt as he's seen
- 15:07left when the Nazi sees power and that
- 15:09was clearly a gloomy time for him
- 15:12this is a girl with record by another
- 15:14degenerate artist named Carl Hofer
- 15:18this is two profiles by fernan legere
- 15:20his keepa subjects are more outlined and
- 15:23set apart from one another compared to
- 15:25most other Cubist artists
- 15:27and this is a study for a mural called
- 15:30air iron water by Robert Delaney from
- 15:331937. it's a small version of a wall
- 15:36painting he made for the 1937 World's
- 15:38Fair in Paris intended to promote public
- 15:41transport
- 15:43here is the Blue Cow by Russian
- 15:45neoprimativist Natalia goncharova
- 15:49her partner Mikhail aryanov painted this
- 15:52scene the officers Barber based on his
- 15:55interest in folklore and small town life
- 15:58this is rising forums by Francisca which
- 16:01can be understood as an attempt to
- 16:03render invisible Cosmic forces visible
- 16:07here is a man in a supremacist landscape
- 16:09paint in 1930 by Casimir malevich a
- 16:14reaction to his experience being
- 16:15arrested and interred at the KGB
- 16:17headquarters Under Suspicion of
- 16:19political insubordination
- 16:21the Albertina collection contains
- 16:23several fantastic works of Mark Chagall
- 16:26this is the Kite from 1926.
- 16:33here is a later work of chagalls from
- 16:351972 titled the sleeping woman with
- 16:38flowers
- 16:40the sleeping woman is being carried off
- 16:42into a spiritual world of dreams on the
- 16:44Cote d'azur
- 16:47[Music]
- 16:51this work called motherhood was created
- 16:54by Chagall in 1914
- 16:57this is a village scene of chagall's
- 17:00birthplace vitepsk painted in the 1930s
- 17:02he was born in the Russian now
- 17:05Belarusian town in 1887 and later
- 17:08founded an art academy there
- 17:12there is also a room full of
- 17:13illustrations by Egon Sheila an Austrian
- 17:16artist who developed his own radical
- 17:18variant of expressionism and explore
- 17:20themes of bodycentered self
- 17:22[Music]
- 17:25this is a self-portrait of Egon Chila
- 17:27with his eyelid pulled down
- 17:28[Music]
- 17:31this is a portrait of yanet Alberto
- 17:35giacometti's wife from 1958 giacometti
- 17:38always wanted to look behind the visible
- 17:39surface in his portraiture and
- 17:41sculptures so take that for what you
- 17:43will
- 17:44here is the forest and Sun at Sunset by
- 17:47Max Ernst he did a lot of surreal Forest
- 17:50pictures like this in 1927
- 17:52[Music]
- 17:54this is the monument to music by Alberto
- 17:57Savino
- 17:59here is an awesome large painting by
- 18:01Renee Magritte titled the enchanted
- 18:04domain
- 18:06this was a preliminary design of a huge
- 18:08wall painting for a casino on the
- 18:10Belgian Channel Coast
- 18:12and this is a classic Geo committee
- 18:15sculpture depicting Four Women on a
- 18:16plinth
- 18:19this is metamorphosis by Joanne Miro
- 18:22part of a series he made during the
- 18:241930s expressing his concern about the
- 18:26political situation in Spain
- 18:29next the Mira was a great Max Earth
- 18:31sculpture depicting a troll under the
- 18:33bridges of Paris
- 18:36here is a woman in front of the sun this
- 18:38is one of miro's Pinchers spontaneous in
- 18:41which he experimented with the
- 18:42spontaneity of the hand
- 18:45there's another work of Max Ernst tiled
- 18:47flowers on a yellow ground
- 18:51here is a landscape of ruins and
- 18:54Moonlight by Max Ernst
- 18:56the piece is called a short pause and
- 18:58was made in 1959
- 19:00[Music]
- 19:06there are even a couple works of John du
- 19:07buffet in his art brute Style
- 19:10[Music]
- 19:13this is the table which du Buffet made
- 19:16in the 50s
- 19:19there is a somewhat unsettling seated
- 19:21figure by Francis Bacon
- 19:24and finally there are several abstract
- 19:26works by Carol Apple a founder of the
- 19:29influential Cobra group in the 1950s
- 19:35I have to say that I am very impressed
- 19:37with this collection
- 19:41now we are going to enter the state
- 19:43rooms of the Albertina Palace
- 19:47the restored Habsburg staterooms are not
- 19:49always open to visitors so these are
- 19:51going to be really great to see
- 19:53[Music]
- 20:00as mentioned Duke Albert used this
- 20:03Palace as his residence and brought his
- 20:04Prince collection here which he gathered
- 20:07during his time as governor of the
- 20:08Habsburg Netherlands the building was
- 20:10later altered by his son Archduke Carl
- 20:13then his son the Archduke Albrecht lived
- 20:16here until his death in 1895. Albrecht
- 20:19is the one who has the equestrian statue
- 20:21outside
- 20:25foreign
- 20:29[Music]
- 20:47those are portraits of Empress Maria
- 20:49Theresa and Emperor Franz the first
- 20:52[Music]
- 20:54this is the yellow chamber which
- 20:57features some Italian Works including
- 20:58this landscape in 1776 Duke Albert and
- 21:02archduch's Murray Christine the daughter
- 21:05of Maria Theresa undertook The Grand
- 21:07Tour of Italy
- 21:12[Music]
- 21:15this small-scale Hall of Mirrors is
- 21:17pretty awesome
- 21:18[Music]
- 21:32this was the 19th century French Empire
- 21:35Style reception Salon of Princess
- 21:36Henrietta wife of Archduke Carl which
- 21:40was modernized in 1875 by Archduke
- 21:42Albrecht
- 21:43[Music]
- 21:46foreign
- 21:52I got sorrowed by this man standing in a
- 21:55corner in shame
- 21:58[Music]
- 22:08these are facsimiles of drawings by
- 22:10Michelangelo and Raphael
- 22:12the originals are in the collection here
- 22:14at the Albertina again these are all
- 22:17facsimiles and not the real drawings
- 22:19unfortunately drawings and prints are
- 22:21extremely fragile to lights and cannot
- 22:23be displayed often so the operino rarely
- 22:26displays the originals but these are all
- 22:29drawings by the great Michelangelo
- 22:32the Albertina maintains an incredible
- 22:34collection of prints by albrechturer
- 22:36[Music]
- 22:37the Praying Hands by Durer are amazing
- 22:40[Music]
- 22:42thank you
- 22:44[Music]
- 22:46during my visit the Albertina did have a
- 22:48fantastic Prince special exhibition
- 22:50featuring several authentic durers I
- 22:53cover that exhibit in a separate video
- 22:55that is linked in the description
- 22:57these are facilities of portraits by the
- 23:00Flemish Master Peter Paul Rubens
- 23:03here are durr's depictions of Innsbruck
- 23:06Castle
- 23:06[Music]
- 23:08this is interesting a large piece of
- 23:10turf by Durer Albert Durham made all
- 23:13sorts of natural scenes and studies in
- 23:15his prints like this watercolor wing of
- 23:17a blue roller
- 23:20and this is a facsimile of durer's
- 23:23Famous Hair an incredibly intricate
- 23:25depiction of a bunny from 1502.
- 23:29every single hair follicle on this guy
- 23:31is clearly visible that is an amazing
- 23:33illustration
- 23:35I really like this one and hope to see
- 23:36the real watercolor on display here
- 23:38someday
- 23:40this stateroom was used as the study of
- 23:43Archduke Carl who delivered one of
- 23:45Napoleon's first setbacks that ask for
- 23:47an s-ling in the war of the fifth
- 23:49Coalition he actually died in this room
- 23:51in 1847 and this is a miniature of his
- 23:54equestrian statue on the held implants
- 24:00so those were the main exhibition
- 24:02galleries of the Albertina what a
- 24:05fantastic collection and Museum
- 24:06definitely one of my favorites in Vienna
- 24:09if not my favorite however that is not
- 24:12all as the museum always has several
- 24:14special exhibitions
- 24:16during my visit there was a really
- 24:18interesting exhibit on the great masters
- 24:20of print making such as albrechturer
- 24:23which went through the history of
- 24:25printmaking as well as an exhibit on
- 24:27illustrations by Peter bruegel the Elder
- 24:29and those are featured in a separate
- 24:31video there was also an exhibition of
- 24:34the albertina's Pablo Picasso collection
- 24:36and an Alex Katz retrospective
- 24:39so make sure to check out those two
- 24:41other videos Linked In the description I
- 24:43also have other videos featuring the
- 24:44museums and attractions of Vienna as
- 24:47well as other art museums and
- 24:48attractions across Europe and America
- 24:50also please like this video share it and
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- 24:55for watching
- 24:57[Music]
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