{"id":78569,"date":"2024-12-17T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=78569"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:04:10","slug":"world-in-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/world-in-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"The World in Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolorssmall.jpg\" alt=\"Riverside buildings\" class=\"wp-image-78560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolorssmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolorssmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Art history or a history in art? Lower Belvedere&#8217;s <em>The World in Colors<\/em> exhibition showcases Slovenian painting in the final seven decades of Habsburg rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Highlights from the years 1848-1918<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also sheds light on the cultural and political context<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Includes Monet, van Gogh and others for comparison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Jan 30 &#8211; May 25, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lower-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3384\">Lower Belvedere overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slovenian painting<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors1.jpg\" alt=\"Landscape painting from the late 1800s\" class=\"wp-image-78558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Ivan Grohar, The Field of Rafolce, 1903, photo: Belvedere, Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/austria-hungary\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12858\">Austrian-Hungarian empire<\/a> collapsed relatively quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/austria\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12860\">at the end of WWI<\/a>, many of its constituent parts had long nurtured a growing wish for more independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take Slovenia, for example, where the 1848 year of revolution, as in many parts of Europe, proved a notable date in this context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formal local demands for a merged &#8220;Slovenian&#8221; province and increased national autonomy arose that year. Predictably, these received a resounding &#8220;Nein&#8221; from the monarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, fuses had been firmly lit: Slovenia at least continued with its sociocultural drift away from Viennese dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This era of coalescing Slovenian national identity makes an excellent timeline for an exploration of Slovenian painting. Hence the <em>The World in Colors<\/em> exhibition at Lower Belvedere in cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ng-slo.si\/en\/\">National Gallery of Slovenia<\/a> in Ljubljana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(As an aside, Ljubljana is a lovely location to visit: a small riverside city where much of the historical architecture remains in the centre.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/worldincolors3.jpg\" alt=\"View of an exhibition gallery\" class=\"wp-image-79832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/worldincolors3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/worldincolors3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(View of the exhibition; photo by and \u00a9 Johannes Stoll \/ Belvedere, Vienna) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition exposes us to numerous influential painters from that period, including the likes of Jo\u017eef Tominc (1790-1866), Jo\u017eef Petkov\u0161ek (1861-1898) or Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two particular areas of focus are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The time around 1900, which saw the influential Slovenian impressionists come to the fore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Turn-of-the-century painters also engaged with colour to a greater extent than in most places, whether in terms of application techniques, symbolism, or colour&#8217;s impact within a work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The relationship between Slovenian artists and &#8220;Vienna&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Imperial Austria offered educational and income opportunities, as well as interaction with artists from elsewhere. But not undisputed acceptance.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"349\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors2.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of a woman and child from the early 1900s\" class=\"wp-image-78559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors2.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/worldincolors2-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Ivana Kobilca, Summer, 1889-90, photo: National Gallery of Slovenia)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, the works on show seem to chart the dynamics of the cultural developments and geopolitics within the Slovenia-Vienna relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving from gallery to gallery, you certainly get a feel for the transformations of styles and the influences behind them. Juxtaposed works by non-Slovenians like van Gogh, Monet, Moser and Gerstl enhance this effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subjects and motifs within the paintings also seem to reflect a sense of national emancipation combined with assimilation of international trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These were my two personal favourites on display (because of the gorgeous use of colour):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ivan Grohar&#8217;s early modernist 1909\/10 painting of potato harvesters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rihard Jakopi\u010d&#8217;s  1905 <em>Amid Pine Trees (A Breeze)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy some of the best of Slovenian painting from January 30th to May 25th, 2025. An entrance ticket for or from Lower Belvedere includes the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walk up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/upper-belvedere-palace\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3521\">Upper Belvedere<\/a> for more on the same era, too, particularly from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gustav-klimt-belvedere\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3544\">Vienna around 1900<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some of the same period, Lower Belvedere has a second treat for us in another special exhibition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/klimt-pigment-pixel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"79191\">Gustav Klimt &#8211; Pigment &amp; Pixel<\/a> (ends September 7th, 2025) reveals some of the painter&#8217;s methods, as discovered in technical analyses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the paintings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition takes place in the Lower Belvedere main galleries (the central &amp; east side of the palace).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the travel tips on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3402\">Belvedere directions page<\/a>, but your main option is the 71 tram that travels around the western edge of the old town before heading out past Lower Belvedere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art history or a history in art? 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