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Upper Belvedere . Gustav Klimt Collection VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
This marvellous Jugendstil
Standing at the highest point of the garden, the Upper collection by Gustav Klimt is Practical Information
considered by some to be
Belvedere has a more elaborate façade than the Lower the Belvedere’s highlight. In Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27, A-1030.
Belvedere: it was intended to be a symbolic reflection of Prince the work here, Judith I (1901), Map 4 F4. Tel 79557134.
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Terrena with its sweeping staircase, the chapel and the Marble Testament heroine as a Transport
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Hall, the building now houses an Austrian art collection with % Südtirolerplatz. @ 69A. <
works ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. Quartier Belvedere. v D, O, 18.

Viewing balcony
for chapel

The Tiger Lion (1926)
. Chapel This savage beast from the
The centrepiece of this brown, white interwar period was painted by
and gold interior is an altarpiece, The Second Oskar Kokoschka, a leading figure
Resurrection by Francesco Solimena floor in Austrian Expressionism.
(1723), set among statues of angels.
Prince Eugene could enter the chapel Marble Hall
directly from his apartments.

Gallery Guide
The Plain of Auvers (1890)
The ground floor houses First floor Van Gogh’s airy landscape is part
masterpieces of medieval of a series inspired by the wheat
and modern art. Baroque art fields around Auvers-sur-Oise,
and art from the fin-de-siècle Stairs to m where the artist spent the last
to World War I is on the first floor. few months of his life.
Laughing Self-Portrait Nineteenth-century and Biedermeier
(1908) art is on the second floor. Ground floor
This picture is by Richard
Gerstl, the Viennese artist
who was developing his
own Expressionist style
when he killed himself in
his twenties.
Main entrance
from gardens
Key
Neo-Classicism, Romanticism
and Biedermeier . Sala Terrena
Realism and Impressionism Four Herculean figures
Baroque and early by Lorenzo Mattielli Corpus Christi
19th-century art support the ceiling Morning (1857)
Vienna 1880–1914 vault of the Sala This bright genre scene
Medieval art Terrena, while white is typical of the work of
stuccowork by Biedermeier painter
Modern art: interwar period Santino Bussi covers Ferdinand Georg
Non-exhibition space the walls and ceiling. Waldmüller.

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