Franz Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, published in 1851, and is by far the most famous of the set.

The Hungarian-born composer and pianist Franz Liszt was strongly influenced by the music heard in his youth, particularly Hungarian folk music, with its unique gypsy scale, rhythmic spontaneity and direct, seductive expression.

These elements would eventually play a significant role in Liszt's compositions.

Josef Nikolaus Kriehuber | Portrait of Franz Liszt, 1846

Eugene de Blaas | Gypsy Girl

Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas (24 July 1843 - 10 February 1931), was an Italian-Austrian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism.

He was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother.

His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher.

His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman.

The family moved to Venice when Karl became professor at the Academy of Venice.

He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings.

Stefan Draschan, 1979 | Coincidences at Museums

Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan is a self-confessed flâneur(a French term popularized in the 19th century for a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer").

Draschan commutes between Vienna, Berlin, Naples, and Paris.

His penchants for museum-going and people-watching blossomed into a wildly successful blog-turned-book: Coincidences at Museums (2019), in which he photographed other museum-goers who inadvertently matched with the paintings in front of them.

Egon Schiele | Herbstsonne, 1914

Herbstsonne (Autumn Sun) is a lost masterpiece of Schiele's art unseen since 1942 and thought, until now, to have been destroyed in the Second World War.

One of Schiele's (1890-1918) most important paintings and among the finest of all his landscapes, it is the culmination of a central theme in Schiele's work that had preoccupied him since first coming to artistic maturity in 1910.

Using landscape as an allegory of a human emotion, Herbstsonne is an 'Expressionist' landscape in the truest sense of the word and a masterpiece of the unique and precarious time in which it was made.

Egon Schiele | Herbstsonne, 1914 | Christies

Rainer Maria Rilke | Lascia che tutto ti accada / Let everything happen to you

Dio parla a ciascuno solamente prima ch’egli sia creato,

poi va con lui silente nella notte.

Ma le parole, quelle prima dell’inizio di ciascuno,

le parole, come nubi, sono queste:

Sospinto dal tuo intendere,

va’ fino al limite del tuo anelare;

dai a me una veste.

Vladimir Volegov

Jakub Schikaneder | The Kampa Lovers, 1894

"The Kampa Lovers" is an 1894 painting by the Czech painter and professor Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924).

Schikaneder is known for his soft paintings of the outdoors, often lonely in mood.

His paintings often feature poor and outcast figures and "combined neo-romantic and naturalist impulses".

Other motifs favoured by Schikaneder were autumn and winter, corners and alleyways in the city of Prague and the banks of the Vltava – often in the early evening light, or cloaked in mist.

Anton Romako (1832-1889)

Anton Romako è stato un pittore Austriaco, considerato uno degli artisti più interessanti e pionieri dell'era "Ringstraßenepoche".

Romako dipinse un gran numero di scene di paesaggi (ad esempio da Bad Gastein), influenzato dal Scuola di Barbizon, ma è noto soprattutto per i suoi ritratti e scene storiche.

I suoi primi lavori mostrano l'influenza del realismo Biedermeier, mentre gli ultimi lavori sono dipinti in un nervoso espressionista stile che turbò i suoi contemporanei.

Carl Schweninger

Carl Schweninger il Giovane (Vienna, 1854-1912) è stato un pittore Austriaco.

Carl Schweninger nacque a Vienna, nell'impero austro-ungarico, da una famiglia di artisti viennesi.

Egli era il figlio di Carl Schweninger il Vecchio e il fratello della pittrice Rosa Schweninger.

Imparò a dipingere dapprima presso suo padre, quindi studiò dal 1871 al 1873 presso Karl Mayer alla scuola generale di pittura dell'accademia di belle arti di Vienna.