Vienna

Scripted interview Interviewer: Today we will be interviewing a gentleman that has forged a name for him self in the realm of music. He has created every thing from sonatas, fugues, quartets, sonnets, and operas. He has also traveled all across Europe playing some of the most renowned places such as the Sistine Chapel. Ladies and gentleman I give you Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart: Thank you, thank you it a pleasure to be hear. Interviewer: So let’s start simple, and go all the way back to…

Colonel Redl depicts a young man who is patriotic, ambitious and loyal towards the Habsburg Empire. Born to a poor but loyal Galician family Redl is able to receive a promotion in the military where he is eventually assigned a position as War Minister then made head of the intelligence division due to his ambition and loyalty to the state. However, in his early years he is sent to a military school far from Galicia where he is born, forced to leave his family and taught military education which…

1.Who was Johann Winckelmann, and what was his importance in the history of art? Johann Winckelmann was a German scholar who believed classical art triumphed over “natural” art that was popular in his time (Kleiner 784). He published works like History of Ancient Art (1764) which details different classical art works. However, the thing that set this piece apart from those before him is the fact that he organized less by biography and more by subject, style, and period (Kleiner 784) .…

Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, with its forests, fairy tale towns and picture-book castles has as its capital, Munich, a year-round destination. Gilly Pickup goes in search of Chocolate, Beer Steins and the Mad Monarch Images Gilly Pickup It's amazing how much rich, chocolate Bavarian cream tart you can eat to sustain you during a hard day’s sightseeing. Besides, we’d just climbed all the way to the top of the 15th century ‘Frauenkirche’, Gothic Church of Our Lady, the city’s famous…

Franz Stangl was a policeman, weaver, Captain of a cruel German organization in the SS Commandant. Was a Commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibór death camp. Stangl was born on March 16, 1908 in Altmunster, Austria and died on June 28, 1971 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Franz's childhood was in a small town in Austria, he was son of a watchman, had a sister who was 10 years older than him. He was scare of his father because Franz would get "leathered." he lived in a military household, when stangl was…

left the academy of fine arts in 1909, after finishing his third year, and started the Neukunstgruppe, also known as the New Art Group, with the other frustrated students from his class. Klimt asked Schiele to put some of his work up at the 1909 Vienna Kunstschau, where he saw the works of Edvard Munch, Jan Toorop, and Vincent van Gogh including other artists as well. After Schiele was free from the restrictions of the academy 's conventions, he began to look into the human form, and human…

intellectual conservatism. But in spite of these difficulties the Empire remained a major expansionist power until the Battle of Vienna in 1683, which marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe. The discovery of new trade routes by Western European states allowed them to avoid the Ottoman trade monopoly. The Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 initiated a series of Ottoman-Portuguese naval wars in the Indian Ocean throughout the 16th century. The Somali Muslim Ajuran…

Congress of Vienna was an assembly of 5 powers of the continent(British, French, Prussia, Austria, Russia) , held from Sept-1814 to June 1815 to discuss the state of Europe and how to deal with the aftermath of Napoleonic wars. The aim of the assembly was to create balance of power among the European Empires to avoid future wars in the continent. This summit successfully maintained peace among these Empires for 40 years . It was only after 99 years an all-out war took place involving the…

Freud was reluctant to leave vienna, because he had lived there his entire life and written most of his important work in his flat where he lived with his wife and six children. That is the reason for freud holding as long as he did, so despite being harrassed by the gestapo repeteadly. The breaking point for him was when his daughter Anna, not only got arrested by the gestapo but also threatened. She was released by some help from the american ambassador. He then realized that he had no chance…

decorative while Schiele 's work is unforgiving in its brutality. An example that displays this duality in their work and similar compositions are Klimt’s The Kiss and Schiele’s Death and the Maiden. Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was born in Vienna. Klimt was noted for the erotic quality of his highly decorative art. His style was perceived as rebellious of the traditional academic…