November 2021

Our service lady Mrs VEHIDA, celebrated her 10 year SERVICE ANNIVERSARY on 10 November!

What makes her so special is her HAPPINESS and FRIENDLINESS towards our guests!

Above all, her ENTHUSIASM FOR WORK!Like a whirlwind, she is always looking for new work and tasks, and is constantly supporting her colleagues!"

A very heartfelt "THANK YOU" Mrs VEHIDA - for your FANTASTIC commitment!"
 

Shopping in Vienna is a hit all year round! Within a few minutes’ walk from HOTEL AUSTRIA, you will not only find the exclusive shopping streets of Kärntner Straße, Graben and Kohlmarkt , but also many typical old-style Viennese boutiques, designer shops and long-established antique shops. After returning from shopping, unwind over a coffee break with a piece of freshly baked Viennese pastry.

We have put together a very special "SHOPPING PACKAGE" FOR YOU:

o a welcome gift
o 2 nights in a standard or comfort double room
o a generous gourmet buffet breakfast
o An original VIENNESE COFFEE BREAK with coffee or tea and a piece of classic Viennese pastry

The inner courtyard of the MuseumsQuartier becomes an atmospheric winter garden. With spectacular art and light projects, open dining gardens, curling lanes, and a fantastically luminous LED ball track.

The MuseumsQuartier (MQ) in Vienna is a popular meeting place in both summer and winter. This winter, open-air programs are right at the top of the agenda again. And so without further ado, the inner courtyard of the MuseumsQuartier transforms into a winter garden. Wintry lights and festively decorated Christmas trees create an atmospheric winter landscape. This year, the food outlets are opening their dining gardens right through the winter and getting visitors in the mood for Advent with special decorations as well as Christmas food and drinks.
Light projections bathe the entire MQ in fantastic winter imagery and create a particularly atmospheric mood. The main courtyard will be given a winter’s sky, on which artistically designed projections can be seen; the same will be done on the façade of the Leopold Museum.

Remote-controlled cars race around in the pond of the MuseumsQuartier in the "Winter Race". Competitions can also be held on two curling lanes. And Lumina, an illuminated bowling alley, is an experience not just for children.

Winter garden in the MQ
November 4, 2021 - January 9, 2022
Free admission
LED ball track Lumina: daily 2.00 pm - 10.00 pm
Curling lane: Mo-Fr 4.00 pm - 10.00 pm, Sa, Su & hols. 2.00 pm - 10.00 p
http://www.mqw.at/

When Vienna transforms into a glittering winter wonderland, even the hearts of the biggest Last Christmas grouches beat faster. Because Advent in Vienna enchants with an entertaining program of pre-Christmas events.

What does Advent in Vienna have in common with coriander? Clearly the polarizing force. Either you're a proud defender or a strident opponent. It's the same with Christmas: while some people change radio channel at the sound of the first Christmas song, others can hardly wait to fill their home with the aroma of freshly baked cookies. Our tips for Advent convince even the biggest of Christmas grouches.

They're known around the world, but the snow globe was invented in Vienna. If you're looking for the right Christmas mood, you should pay a visit to the Original Vienna Snow Globe Manufactory. Snow globes have been produced here for over 100 years. St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Giant Ferris Wheel, Schönbrunn Palace, and many other motifs can be found in the flurry of snow. By the way, the recipe for the snow's composition is a strictly guarded secret...

Hot chestnuts are as much a part of Advent as Christmas cookies and punch. Every corner in Vienna smells of this wintertime street food. To obtain their characteristic flavor, the chestnuts continue to be roasted over coal. What's more, the chestnut roasters are a historic relic. In the 18th century, Maria Theresa permitted a German minority in Slovenia to sell the edible chestnuts from their homeland as itinerant traders. Chestnut roasters define the city's streets in winter to this day. Your mission during the run-up to Christmas in Vienna: to choose your favorites from among the city's chestnut sellers.

A magical Advent ambience extends throughout the Hirschstetten Botanical Gardens in the pre-Christmas period in Vienna. A highlight is the floral Christmas exhibition, at which everything is based on popular Christmas songs. If you've had your fill of Feliz Navidad and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, you can enjoy charity punch and organic treats, browse for gifts at the traditional Christmas market, while the children do crafts and bake cookies.
The sight of it is sure to get everyone's mouth watering: the Demel show bakery creates artworks of Advent pleasure right in front of the guests' eyes.

On Kohlmarkt, in the 1st district, baking is done at the former imperial and royal court confectioner for all its worth. In the run-up to Christmas, you can look over the shoulder of the confectioners as they bake cookies in the glass-walled show bakery. "To some extent, it's like a kitsch TV commercial," is the verdict of one visitor. And what would Advent in Vienna be without a hint of kitsch?
 

This autumn, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna devotes itself entirely to women in Venice at the time of the Renaissance. Painted by the exceptional artist Titian and his contemporaries. The museum celebrates its 130th birthday in 2021 with the exhibition highlight "Titian's Vision of Women: Beauty - Love - Poetry".

There is no getting around this show in the autumn: Old Masters are celebrated with a major special exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (KHM). At its center is the important Venetian Renaissance painter Titian (c. 1488/90-1576) and his contemporaries Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Palma Vecchio, Paris Bordone, and Lorenzo Lotto. What is special about the exhibition "Titian's Vision of Women: Beauty - Love - Poetry" is that it aims specifically to cast light on the presentation of women in Venice of the 16th century.

Around 60 outstanding works from some of the most important museums and collections in the world – like the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid, the Uffizi in Florence, and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg – supplement paintings from the holdings of the KHM.

After 1500, women increasingly appeared in a new light in painting. The portraits of beautiful women ("Belle Donne") are a phenomenon of art history that developed in Venice during the Renaissance. The poetically erotic portraits of woman created at the time pointed the way for European painting in the centuries that followed.
Even Titian managed to impressively present the women he depicted as being intellectual and elegant, and at the same time idealized and enjoyable. The new exhibition highlights the women themselves, but also their accessories – the fashion, fine fabrics, hairstyles, rich jewels, and pearls of the time. 
This autumn, the imposing building on Vienna's Ringstrasse boulevard celebrates not only the opening of the major Titian show, but also a milestone birthday: Emperor Franz Joseph ceremoniously opened the museum 130 years ago on October 17, 1891. It was also opened to the public in the same month.

October 5, 2021 - January 16, 2022
http://www.khm.at/
 

The major autumn exhibition at the Albertina shows "Modigliani. The Primitivist Revolution". And thus this grand master of Classical Modernism for the first time in Austria.

The main motif of his paintings and sculptures was always the human being. Stretched-out bodies and faces with their secretive and empty eyes. The oeuvre of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is fascinating and dramatic all at once. His works give you a sense of the tragic side of his life, which also included an excess of alcohol and drugs.

One year later than scheduled due to the pandemic, the Albertina remembers the 100th anniversary of the artist's death with the spectacular autumn exhibition "Modigliani. The Primitivist Revolution". Principal works from the most renowned museums and private collections in the world, including many of his famous portraits and nudes, are making their way to Vienna for the occasion. Modigliani will be shown as a solo exhibition for the first time in Austria.

The artist born in Livorno, Italy, once worked in the Parisian artists’ quarter Montmartre, side by side with the likes of Pablo Picasso or Henri Matisse, but enjoyed scant success with his art during his lifetime. His style, which was atypical and often provocative at the time, was not in great demand. Modigliani died in Paris at the age of just 35 years from tuberculosis. His works attained enormous popularity only after his death and some of them now fetch prices in the hundreds of millions.

The 80 or so works by Modigliani to be shown during the exhibition will be joined by another 50 objects from three continents – namely works by Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuşi, and André Derain, as well as artifacts of so-called "primitive" – prehistoric, archaic or non-European – world cultures. These works supplement the extraordinary show. Modigliani regularly referred to African, Egyptian, East Asian and archaic Greek art in his work. The exhibition also presents him for the first time as a leading avant-garde artist, who carried the revolution of Primitivism well into the 20th century.

Modigliani. The Primitivist Revolution
September 17, 2021 - January 9, 2022
http://www.albertina.at/