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In innumerable ways, large and small, we lift our clients’ experience far above standards which are regarded as normal for tourists.
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» Arrival in Vienna and Transfer to your Hotel. Welcome reception.
» Morning visit to the Gallery of Austrian Art and to the Lower Belvedere to admire the Collection of paintings by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and their
contemporaries. Afternoon entry to the Austria-Hungary 1918, special exhibition.
April 22 » A private transfer to your hotel by private chauffeured car will be provided. Evening reception and dinner.
April 23 » After a delicious Viennese breakfast we drive to the Gallery of Austrian Art in the Baroque magnificence of the Belvedere Palace where we admire the collection of paintings by Klimt( the world’ s largest, including The Kiss), Schiele, Kokoschka and their contemporaries. After time for coffee and strudel, we walk to the Lower Belvedere and enter the special exhibition, Austria-Hungary
1918, in which Klimt and Schiele will be presented in dialogue together with a variety of figures, including leading Czech Cubists and painters in the Hungarian Nyolcak group, among others. Lunch at the historical center and free afternoon.
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April 26 » We drive to the outskirts of the city to see buildings by Otto Wagner; the richly decorated apartment blocks in the Linke Wienzeile, the emperor’ s personal railway station at Schönbrunn and the hospital church‘ Am Steinhof’, the finest manifestation of Viennese Secessionism. We later enter the ground floor of the villa used by Klimt as a studio between 1911 and 1918 featuring a reconstruction of the original furnishings and various media related to Klimt’ s work.
April 27 » Prior to our first-class train to Budapest, we visit the Leopold Collection with excellent works by Secessionist artists, especially Schiele. Transfer to Budapest( by rail or helicopter). Dinner in Budapest at one of the most traditional restaurants in the city.
April 24
» The strikingly displayed collections of the Museum of Applied Arts. Afternoon drive to admire Secessionist facades and designs by Otto Wagner, Max Fabiani, Josip Plecnik and Adolf Loos( including two buildings by special arrangements). Evening Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the world’ s greatest art galleries.
April 25
» Special entry to the first major exhibition dedicated to Otto Wagner in more than fifty years. Afternoon visit to the Imperial Furniture Collection, presenting the work of the leading architects of Viennese Modernism.
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April 30
» By bus to visit the Otto Wagner richly decorated apartment blocks in the Linke Wienzeile; the emperor’ s personal railway station at Schönbrunn and the hospital church‘ Am Steinhof’, the finest manifestation of Viennese Secessionism. We enjoy a privileged entry to the villa used by Klimt during his last years.
» Morning visit to the Leopold Collection housing excellent works by Secessionist artists, especially Schiele. Afternoon train to Budapest( 3H). Evening Danube Cruise.
» During our days in Budapest we will join expert lecturers on walking and bus sightseeing sessions to survey eight of the most beautiful buildings in the city.
» Airport transfers for homebound flights.
April 24 » On the program this morning, the Museum of Applied Arts with its strikingly displayed excellent collections of works by Hoffmann, Moser and other designers of the Wiener Werkstätte, as well as by the Scotsman Charles Mackintosh. Our afternoon drive and walk will feature Secessionist facades and designs by Otto Wagner, Max Fabiani, Josip Plecnik and Adolf Loos( including two buildings by special arrangements). Visit to and dinner at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the world’ s greatest art galleries, with a special exhibition focused on Klimt’ s Nuda Veritas and representations of self-perception.
April 25 » This morning we enter the Museum of the History of Vienna to admire the first major exhibition dedicated to Otto Wagner in more than fifty years and for a short visit to their fascinating permanent collection, particularly rich in turn-of-the-century art and artifacts. Afternoon exploration of the decommissioned railway station pavilions by Wagner and Olbrich follows. We end our day at the exhibition hall designed in 1898 by Olbrich for the Secession Building where we visit Klimt’ s 34-metre long Beethoven Frieze.
After a lunch at a typical tavern, we enter the special exhibition at the Imperial Furniture Collection, presenting the work of the leading architects of Viennese Modernism: Wagner, Loos and Hoffmann as interior and furniture designers.
April 29 and 29 » During our days in Budapest we will join expert lecturers on walking and bus sightseeing sessions to survey eight of the most beautiful buildings in the city. Most by special appointment. The Parisian Court with a façade enriched with Gothic and Eastern motifs, and the Klotild and Matilde Palaces; the Institute for the Blind by Sándor Baumgarten with a special entry to the Concert Hall, displaying outstanding stained glass windows – the largest in Hungary and original furnishings and decorations by Imre Zsellér, apprentice to Miksa Róth.
We will admire the Zsolnay ceramics at the Hotel Gellért and visit the Hungarian Royal Geological Institute, Ödön Lechner’ s most radical and memorable building. By special appointment, we enter the Calvinist Church by Aladar Arkay, a ceramic-clad synthesis of German, Scandinavian and American Art Nouveau. An exclusive visit to the Gresham Palace( now the Four Seasons Hotel) closes our program. Architects Zsigmond Quittner and József Vágó were given a carte blanche and decided to assign the most prestigious artists of the period to the ornamentation of the building. A Danube Cruises bring our exclusive adventure to an end.
April 30 » Morning transfers to the airport for homebound flights.