Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary opened the facility around 1891 at the same time as the Natural History Museum, Vienna which has a similar design and is directly across Maria-Theresien-Platz. The two buildings were constructed between 1871 and 1891 according to plans by Gottfried Semper and Baron Karl von Hasenauer. The emperor commissioned the two Ringstraße museums to create a suitable home for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and to make it accessible to the general public. The buildings are rectangular, with symmetrical Renaissance Revival façades of sandstone lined with large arched windows on the main levels and topped with an octagonal dome high. The interiors of the museums are lavishly decorated with marble, stucco ornamentation, gold-leaf, and murals. The grand stairway features paintings by Gustav Klimt, Ernst Klimt, Franz Matsch, Hans Makart and Mihály Munkácsy. Provided by Wikipedia
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1Published 2004“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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2Published 1977“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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3Published 1982“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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10Vienna, the Kunsthistorische Museum / Manfred Leithe-Jasper, Rudolf Distelberger, Wolfgang Prohaska.Published 1984“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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12Published 1997“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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15Published 1996“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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18Published 1974“…Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien…”
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