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Schlagwort: grazmuseum

Schloßberg-Utopien

By mvdmaster

This exhibition presents the heart of the collections of the GrazMuseum: the large model of the Schloßberg by Anton Sigl. It shows the state of the fortifications before they were destroyed and can thus be interpreted as a backward-looking utopia today. After the slighting of the Schloßberg fortress ordered by Napoleon forward-facing dreaming set in … Continued

360GRAZ

By mvd

Geschichte ist immer auch eine Konstruktion der jeweiligen Gegenwart. So stellt die Erzählung Schlüsselfragen und beleuchtet diese aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.

››… these idiotic years of doom‹‹ Wilhelm Thöny as a Regiment Painter in the First World War

By mvdmaster

Wilhelm Thöny, one of the most important Austrian painters of the Interwar period, volunteered for military service one year after the outbreak of the First World War. At times soberly and melancholically, at others dramatically staged, the works he created serving in the Dreier-Schützen regiment from Graz tell us of heroes of the war, “enemies … Continued

Mountain and City: The Invention of the Schlossberg in Graz

By mvdmaster

The Schlossberg in Graz is not only the city’s most famous tourist attraction, but also a popular recreational destination for Graz residents themselves. It is both a natural wonder and an outlook over the city, but also one of the main stages of Graz’s town history. On the former bastion called Stallbastei, a new Schlossberg … Continued

Regicide – Acts of Violence in the Danube Monarchy

By mvdmaster

After the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, the warmongering parties of the state chancelleries legitimized the declaration of war against Serbia with a call for retribution for the act of “regicide.” With the exhibition “Königsmorde: Gewalttaten in der Donaumonarchie” (Regicide: Acts of Violence in the Danube Monarchy), GrazMuseum is now pursuing … Continued

Carmilla, der Vampir und wir

By mvdmaster

In Styria … damit beginnt eine der bedeutendsten Vampir-Erzählungen der Literaturgeschichte: Carmilla, die 1872 veröffentlichte Gothic Novel des Iren Sheridan Le Fanu. Inmitten einer schaurig-schönen Natureinsamkeit werden die Bewohner/-innen eines steirischen Schlosses von einer Vampirin heimgesucht. 1897 erscheint Bram Stokers Dracula, der Transsilvanien zum Land der Untoten machte, obwohl auch er ursprünglich in der Steiermark angesiedelt … Continued