Viewfinder: Austria’s Capital City Celebrates Vienna Modernism

Pacific Standard Staff
December 27, 2018
Visitors stand on a suspended bridge to take a closer look at paintings by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Visitors stand on a suspended bridge, 12 meters above the ground, to take a closer look at paintings by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt during the "Stairway to Klimt" exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The exhibition, marking the centenary of the death of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), allows visitors to access 13 paintings commissioned by Emperor Franz Joseph.

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