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The Garden of Love, after Peter Paul Rubens, after 1630/31 wood © KHM-Museumsverband
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Fight between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the elder, dated 1559 wood © KHM-Museumsverband
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The Triumph of Bacchus, Maerten van Heemskerck, c. 1536/37 wood © KHM-Museumsverband
Exhibition
Feste Feiern! - Celebration! 125 Years – Anniversary Exhibition
8 Mar 2016 – 11 Sep 2016
Address
- Maria-Theresien-Platz
- Vienna
Wien - 1010
- Austria
To commemorate the 125th birthday KHM Vienna is hosting an important special exhibition on celebrations and festivities with artworks from all its collections as well as major loans from national and international collections.
About
The exhibition focuses on celebrations and how they evolved over time; it looks at various aspects of European festivities from the Renaissance until the French Revolution - at court, in towns and cities, and in the country. Festivities always mark a state of exception during which normal rules temporarily do not apply. The courtly banquet with its pomp and circumstance, which included dancing and music, forms the centre of the show; other sections feature out-of-doors celebrations to mark coronations, weddings or births but also staged during Carnival, church fairs or on market days.
With major loans from national and international collections like Goya’s “La gallina ciega” from the Prado, and a designer outfit by Alexander McQueen from the V&A Museum in London.
