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TOUR READING LIST

To enhance your enjoyment of the 2008 Treasures of the Hapsburg Empire tour of Vienna, Budapest and Prague, here is a list of books, available at Amazon.com and the Seattle Public Library, that you may wish to read before your trip. Click here to purchase your copies from Amazon.com and support Gage at the same time!

Gustav Mahler
Blaukopf, Kurt, NY 1973

Mahler: A Documentary Study
Blaukopf, Kurt, ed., NY 1976

Gustav Klimt
Comini, Alessandra

Egon Schiele
Comini, Alessandra

The Fall of the House of Hapsburg
Crankshaw, Edward, NY 1963

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, trans. Strachey
Freud, Sigmund

Vienna: Its Musical Heritage
Gartenberg, Egon, University Park, PA 1968

Otto Wagner, 1841-1918: The Expanding City; the Beginning of Modern Architecture
Geretsegger, Heinz and Max Peintner, NY 1970

Gustav Klimt
Hofmann, Werner, NY n.d.

Wittgenstein’s Vienna
Janik, Allan and Stephen Toulmin, NY 1973

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 3 volumes
Jones, Ernest, NY 1953

The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History
Johnston, William W., Berkely, 1972

Complete Stories
Kafka, Franz, ed. Glazer, NY 1976

My Life
Kokoschka, Oscar, NY 1974

The Last Days of Mankind
Kraus, Karl, NY 1974

No Compromise: Selected Writings
Kraus, Karl, NY 1977

Josef Maria Olbrich
Latham, Iam, NY 1980

The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1867-1914
May, Arthur J., NY 1951

Dionysian Art and Populist Politics in Austria
McGrath, William J., New Haven 1974

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-9
Morton, Frederic

The Man Without Qualities
Musil, Robert, NY 1953

Vienna’s Golden Years of Music
Pleasants, Henry, ed., NY 1950

The Sacred Spring: The Arts in Vienna 1898-1918
Powell, Nicholas, NY 1975

Arnold Schoenberg
Rosen, Charles, NY 1975

Art Nouveau Architecture
Russell, Frank, ed., NY 1980

Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Schorske, Carl, NY 1980

Vienna 1900
Schnitzler, Arthur, NY 1974

Bruckner
Schönzler, Hans Herbert, NY 1970

Art in Vienna 1898-1918
Vergo, Peter, NY 1975

The Vienna Secession
Waissenberger, Robert, NY 1977

Egon Schiele
Whitford, Frank, NY 1981

The World of Yesterday
Zweig, Stefan, Lincoln, NE 1964


INTERNET READING LIST LINKS

These sites are recommended for a quick introduction to the history and culture of the cities we are going to visit. Many also incorporate links that will allow you to explore art, architecture, and music in greater detail. Most are pretty up-to-date.

AUSTRIA (General)

VIENNA (General)

VIENNA (Museums)

Basic listing with links

City of Vienna site with direct museum links

Belvedere Museum (Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, etc.)

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Breughel, Vermeer, etc.)

Basic Tours of Viennese Architecture, Medieval to Modern

HUNGARY (General)

BUDAPEST (General)

BUDAPEST (Museums)

Hungarian National Gallery

CZECH REPUBLIC (General)

History (with many links)

History of Czech Visual Arts

Czech Contemporary Art

PRAGUE (General)

Quick timeline

Basic history with many links

PRAGUE (Museums)

Contemporary Museum

National Gallery

Contemporary Artists (just a sampling—hopefully we’ll meet them in Prague)

Karel Balcar
(This is a Czech and English site. To see more images, click on them. If you click on the “alpha” sign you get a bio. Clicking on the “omega” sign gets you excerpts from catalogues including an essay by Balcar’s teacher, Zdenĕk Beran. Balcar’s work is a disturbing blend of realism and despair)

Adolf Lachman
(This virtual gallery is all in Czech. Click on the bar marked “galleries” for a tour of the artist’s oeuvre. He was also a Beran student. The first click gets you “obrazy”: these are paintings. The first group are trompe l’oeil, but it goes on getting darker and more fantastic as you click through. As you go from galerie I to galerie IV, you’ll se drawings (kresby), illustrations, and comics. Like many of his young contemporaries, Lachman does a variety of work as a freelancer.)

Jan Stoss
(Czech/English site. Click on various categories to see his work, much of it inspired by the Bohemian medieval tradition. Also a Beran student.)