Opened in 2001, the MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the world's largest complexes for modern art and culture. It offers a wide variety of programs and events, from performing arts, architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature, and children's culture to digital culture. It is an art space with a total of nine permanent museums and exhibition and event halls, an urban living space and meeting place for people interested in culture in Vienna, and a creativity space for the 60 or so art and culture initiatives based in quartier21. Located in the middle of Vienna, the MuseumsQuartier is an oasis of culture and recreation with museums, the quartier21 creative cluster, courtyards, outdoor restaurants, cafés, and shops. Historic buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries are joined with contemporary museum architecture to create a one-of-a-kind architectural setting that attracts about 3.8 million people a year...
...taken at the MuseumsQuartier Wien...
Vienna, Austria...
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I spy with my eye in an alleyway.
A broken man sells trinkets cheap.
From seven seas he tells me by the way.
I give him 20 and he says to me...
We live in a digital world.
We move to the beat of each other.
Fly straight don't blow your cover
If you do then you might wanna...
I wrote this storm, the wind and lightning.
Come closer than my last...
Now he stands tall over my table.
He reaches out his hand and he says to me.
With a smile, he says,
We live in a digital world...
(The Cops)
...taken by the scapholdings of Bank Austria KunstForum Wien...
Vienna, Austria...
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Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!
Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?...
(Matthew Arnold)
...taken through the reflections on the window of a tattoo and piercing studio on Wiedner Haubtstrasse...
Vienna, Austria...
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The Habsburgs, called the House of Habsburg, were Europe's most powerful royal family. They supplied the continent with a nearly uninterrupted stream of rulers for more than six hundred years. Also spelled Hapsburg, the name came from the castle of Habichtsburg (meaning "Hawk's Castle") that was built during the early eleventh century in Switzerland. The first member of the family to bear the name Habsburg was Count Werner I, whose descendant, Rudolf I, was elected king of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in 1273. (The Holy Roman Empire was an alliance of German and Italian states formed in A.D. 800.) When Rudolf conquered Austria three years later, he established the country as the family's new home. Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Hungary, and Spain were among the European states ruled by the house of Habsburg. With only one exception, the Habsburg family also ruled the Holy Roman Empire from 1438, when Albert II was elected, until 1806.
Habsburg influence reached a peak during the sixteenth century. In 1496 Philip I of Spain married Joan of Castile; their son Charles V inherited the crown of Spain in 1516. He also inherited the rest of the vast Holy Roman Empire, which he ruled as emperor from 1519 until 1556. Charles V is considered the greatest of all the Habsburgs, although his rule was not without problems. He had to contend with the Protestant Reformation, a movement against the practices of the Roman Catholic Church (a Christian religion based in Rome, Italy, and headed by a pope), which was the dominant religion in Europe. Charles also faced opposition from his lifelong rival, Francis I, king of France, and from the Ottoman Turks, who were at the height of their power. Nevertheless, he was a successful ruler, and Spanish accomplishments during his reign included the conquest of lands in the New World.
In 1867 the Habsburg empire was reorganized as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. This monarchy did not last long, however, It was dissolved in 1918, after World War I, when the Treaty of Versailles established new boundaries for countries in Europe...
...face on a poster in a bookstore on Wiedner Haubtstrasse, taken through the reflections on the window...
Vienna, Austria...
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This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence living in me
This is my daily bread
Your very word spoken to me
And I'm desperate for you
And I'm lost without you...
(Michael W. Smith)
...taken at the MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien...
Vienna, Austria...
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