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Vienna is for the arts

Clockwise from top left: The Majolica House; Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station; The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library; St. Charles Church.

Clockwise from top left: The Majolica House; Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station; The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library; St. Charles Church.

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July 8, 2018 4 AM PT

Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

A look at the Majolica House designed by architect and urban planner Otto Wagner.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

A look at the Majolica House designed by architect and urban planner Otto Wagner.

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Elaborate Street

The Majolica House in Vienna was built in 1899.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station was designed by architect and urban planner Otto Wagner and opened in 1899.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station in Vienna was designed by Otto Wagner and opened in 1899.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in the first district of Vienna.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Vienna’s Naschmarkt has fresh produce stalls.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Color lithography by Koloman Moser, an artist of the Vienna Secession movement.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

Glass liqueur glasses, circa 1910, attributed to Koloman Moser, known as Kolo.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

A portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

A man films “Death and Life,” a painting by Gustav Klimt, at the exhibition “Hidden Treasures of the Collection” at Leopold Museum in Vienna.

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Arts, music and architecture in Vienna

“The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt is seen at Belvedere Palace in Vienna.

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