The Kunsthistorisches Museum, or Museum of Art History, in Vienna is one of the world's great art museums, built on the Ringstrasse to house the collections of the Habsburg dynasty. It was designed by Gottfried Semper and Carl Hasenauer in the style of the Italian Renaissance, with a grand marble staircase and a dome, and it stands opposite its twin, the Natural History Museum. The picture gallery holds masterpieces of Titian, Raphael, Velazquez, Vermeer and Rubens, and it has the world's largest collection of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Other collections include Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities, classical sculpture and decorative arts, among them the famous gold salt cellar made by Benvenuto Cellini.
Before and after
- 22 January 1891Birth of Antonio Gramsci
- 11 April 1891Birth of Sergei Prokofiev
- 3 May 1891Birth of Mikhail Bulgakov
- 16 September 1891Birth of Karl Dönitz
- 17 October 1891Construction of Kunsthistorisches Museum
- 20 October 1891Birth of James Chadwick
- 10 November 1891Death of Arthur Rimbaud
- 13 November 1891Founding of International Peace Bureau
- 15 November 1891Birth of Erwin Rommel
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1830Publication of Book of Mormon
- 1890Rise of Art Nouveau
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
- c. 1900sRise of Expressionism
- 1909Rise of Futurism
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.