Austrian

FRANZ VON DEFREGGER

Posted on July 16, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Franz von Defregger (1835-1921).

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ANTON WEBERN

Posted on July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Anton Webern (1883-1945).

Passacaglia, Op. 1 (1918).

London Symphony Orchestra.

Conducted by Pierre Boulez.

FELIX BLOCH

Posted on June 28, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Felix (Ferdinand) Bloch (1898-1944).

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WOLF SUSCHITZKY

Posted on June 20, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Wolfgang Suschitzky (b. 1912).

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Victoria Bus Station, London, 1939

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Trafalgar Square 1942, later print by Wolfgang Suschitzky born 1912

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MARIA LASSNIG

Posted on June 12, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Maria Lassnig (1919-2014).

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ERWIN WURM

Posted on June 9, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Erwin Wurm (b. 1954).

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Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies aged 86

Posted on March 6, 2016March 6, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016)

File photo of maestro Harnoncourt conducting the New Year's Concert in Vienna

Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whose career first focused on a search for authenticity in Baroque and other old music and later expanded into masterful interpretations across the classical spectrum, has died. He was 86.

Full article HERE.

FRANZ SEDLACEK (1891-1945)

Posted on January 10, 2016 by beautybellezzabeaute

Franz Sedlacek (1891–1945) was an Austrian painter who belonged to the tradition known as “New Objectivity” (“neue Sachlichkeit”), an artistic movement similar to Magical Realism. At the end of the Second World War he “disappeared” as a soldier of the Wehrmacht somewhere in Poland.

Franz Sedlacek is considered as one of the most outstanding Austrian artists of the inter-war period, whose mysterious and still fascinating work resists common classifications. In his early graphic period he drew up surreal and threatening dream worlds that oscillated between the discoveries of Freud’s psychoanalysis and the dubious social alienation of his time. Later he turned towards oil painting and the style of the old Dutch masters. The motives changed from spooky dances to wide, deserted landscapes – they got calmer though not idyllic and rather exemplified the alienation and loneliness of the individual. Here and there – his disappearance in the apocalyptic confusion of the Second World War seems like a tragic fulfillment – Sedlacek acted in his art as a visionary of calamity.