https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Vandals have desecrated portraits of Holocaust victims placed throughout the streets of central Vienna. President Alexander Van der Bellen said he was "deeply worried" over the assaults. https://www.thelocal.at/20190527/shocking-vandalizations-of-holocaust-art-installation-austrian-president Mon, 27 May 2019 18:29:39 +0200 shocking-vandalizations-of-holocaust-art-installation-austrian-president Vienna is marking 100 years since the death of a string of luminaries from its fin-de-siecle glory days with an avalanche of exhibitions of modernist art, design and architecture that still inspire and shock today. https://www.thelocal.at/20180119/vienna-marks-centenary-of-artistic-golden-era Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:33:59 +0100 vienna-marks-centenary-of-artistic-golden-era As the art world plans to celebrate the centenary of Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele's death, some of his nudes have been dubbed too racy to show in their full glory, not least in the London underground. https://www.thelocal.at/20171117/london-tube-covers-genitalia-on-schiele-nudes Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:38:33 +0100 london-tube-covers-genitalia-on-schiele-nudes Nestled in the hills of Austria sits Gugging, an artists' colony with a difference where the worlds of psychiatry and art collide -- with spectacular success. https://www.thelocal.at/20170606/austrias-fantastical-factory-of-raw-art Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:40:30 +0200 austrias-fantastical-factory-of-raw-art American talk show host and billionaire entrepreneur Oprah Winfrey reportedly sold a Gustav Klimt painting for $150 million (€140.45m) in one of the biggest private art deals of 2016, according to a source who spoke to Bloomberg. https://www.thelocal.at/20170209/oprah-reported-to-have-sold-klimt-painting-for-150-million-dollars Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:47:53 +0100 oprah-reported-to-have-sold-klimt-painting-for-150-million-dollars Like most artworks in galleries worldwide, visitors haven't been allowed to reach out and touch Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" at its home at the Belvedere museum in Vienna -- until now. https://www.thelocal.at/20161012/klimts-kiss-remade-with-3d-printer Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:45:57 +0200 klimts-kiss-remade-with-3d-printer Night owls and culture vultures can explore over 700 of Austria’s museums from 6pm to 1am on Saturday, courtesy of the ORF’s Long Night of Museums event. https://www.thelocal.at/20160930/700-museums-open-their-doors-for-the-long-night-event Fri, 30 Sep 2016 13:41:22 +0200 700-museums-open-their-doors-for-the-long-night-event Why go to Rome when the art of the Sistine Chapel can come to you in Vienna? Check out the new exhibition of Michelangelo's timeless frescos at the Votivkirche. https://www.thelocal.at/20160826/a-taste-of-michelangelo-in-the-heart-of-vienna Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:02:33 +0200 a-taste-of-michelangelo-in-the-heart-of-vienna The city of Linz has been ordered by Austria’s highest court to pay nearly €9 million to the heirs of an art collector after losing four pieces of artwork she owned by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. https://www.thelocal.at/20160728/linz-ordered-to-pay-9-million-over-lost-klimt-and-schiele-artworks-austria Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:46:09 +0200 linz-ordered-to-pay-9-million-over-lost-klimt-and-schiele-artworks-austria Visitors to Vienna's Belvedere Palace were confronted Wednesday with 1,005 refugees' life jackets drifting in the baroque pond -- courtesy of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. https://www.thelocal.at/20160713/prominent-chinese-artist-visits-vienna Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:46:54 +0200 prominent-chinese-artist-visits-vienna The internationally renowned Bregenzer Festspiele has been left with no one to open it - after Austria’s highest court ruled that May's presidential election must be repeated because of widespread procedural "sloppiness". https://www.thelocal.at/20160704/who-will-open-the-bregenzer-festspiele Mon, 04 Jul 2016 13:50:48 +0200 who-will-open-the-bregenzer-festspiele The second day of the World Bodypainting Festival in Pörtschach saw some fabulous work by amateur artists, as well as some extraordinary face painting masterpieces. https://www.thelocal.at/20160703/second-day-of-bodypainting-festival-highlights Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:39:51 +0200 second-day-of-bodypainting-festival-highlights Going into its 19th year, the World Bodypainting Festival held at lake Wörthersee in southern Austria has become the melting pot and gathering of artists from 45 nations competing for the title of "World Champion" in bodypainting. https://www.thelocal.at/20160702/bodypaint-floods-through-sleepy-austrian-town-naked-nsfw Sat, 02 Jul 2016 23:44:51 +0200 bodypaint-floods-through-sleepy-austrian-town-naked-nsfw A painting stolen by the Nazis after the invasion of France during the Second World War has been returned to it’s rightful owner by authorities in Salzburg. https://www.thelocal.at/20160428/austria-returns-nazi-stolen-art-to-french-heirs Thu, 28 Apr 2016 13:40:26 +0200 austria-returns-nazi-stolen-art-to-french-heirs A Vienna auction house has cancelled the planned sale of a 17th century Dutch Master painting after France complained the work had been stolen by the Nazis, its co-manager said Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20160412/nazi-pillaged-artwork-pulled-from-vienna-auction Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:20:37 +0200 nazi-pillaged-artwork-pulled-from-vienna-auction Vienna's famous Leopold Museum on Thursday settled a long-running feud over five Nazi-plundered drawings by Austrian painter Egon Schiele with the descendants of the works' Jewish former owner. https://www.thelocal.at/20160407/austrian-museum-returns-nazi-plundered-artwork Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:29:36 +0200 austrian-museum-returns-nazi-plundered-artwork Would you pay to see art that's broken, mouldy or eaten by worms? Vienna's famous Leopold Museum sure hopes so. The prestigious home of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele is displaying damaged artworks to raise funds for their restoration. https://www.thelocal.at/20160204/austrian-museum-seeks-sponsors-to-save-dark-side-of-art Thu, 04 Feb 2016 07:39:12 +0100 austrian-museum-seeks-sponsors-to-save-dark-side-of-art The director of Vienna's Art History Museum (KHM) Sabine Haag handed over on Monday a priceless Egyptian statue to the Egyptian ambassador after it was recovered from two suspected antiquity thieves earlier this year. https://www.thelocal.at/20151116/looted-ancient-statue-returned-to-egypt Mon, 16 Nov 2015 23:03:16 +0100 looted-ancient-statue-returned-to-egypt The Austrian painter and sculptor Ernst Fuchs has died at the age of 85. Speaking to the Austria Press Agency his son, Tillmann Fuchs, said that his father died early on Monday. https://www.thelocal.at/20151109/austrian-painter-ernst-fuchs-dies-age-85 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:45:02 +0100 austrian-painter-ernst-fuchs-dies-age-85 Sotheby's will auction a series of impressive paintings on Tuesday, but few more so than an Austrian artist's "ultimate homage to the beloved cat". https://www.thelocal.at/20151102/could-this-be-the-biggest-cat-painting-in-the-world Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:52:27 +0100 could-this-be-the-biggest-cat-painting-in-the-world