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![]() ![]() Munich, Berlin and Dresden allow their art galleries to keep up with the development in the world of art and thus give their youth access to a modern artistic education. Even during the last international exhibition in the Künstlerhaus, the 30,000 guilders that had been granted by the government were not sufficient to purchase foreign artworks. It provides them with contacts beyond Austria, which is highly crucial, since it is getting more and more difficult to organize a Viennese exhibition with a European character. This general, international approval is an important safeguard for the Viennese group. The time of planning is finally over today action speaks louder than words, for this courageous venture is already secured, both artistically and financially, at least for the next decade.Įgyptian Art I (Young Girl with Horus), 1890-1891. The citizens of Vienna themselves are going to be surprised by the news since all the conspirators behind this project have been untiringly working in deepest silence in their metaphorical mountain retreat. A magic word has been spoken which shall break the chains and raise the dead from their graves: an urban expansion is on the horizon that shall rejuvenate Vienna’s art scene.Īs a city of the arts, Vienna, this formidable little town shall finally become Great Vienna, truly a New Vienna. This is what the Viennese would call a “Wiener Lokalnachricht” (a local headline) but compared to all the other headlines that have been published in the papers over the last years, this announcement is of tremendous importance. ![]() The conditions, however, for this grant still need mitigation. The city council has, in recent days, in a moment of epiphany, made the decision to grant the Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs (Association of Visual Artists in Austria) a piece of property for the construction of an art exhibition center on the corner of the Wollzeile in Vienna. ![]()
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