Art
This project investigates the cooperation between historians, church leaders, theologists, journalists, and local activists in Austria, the United States, and Germany to remove the traces of medieval blood libel legends from churches in Central Europe. It extends existing scholarship on the resurrection of medieval blood libel in modern Austria into the post-WW2 period, showing how…
Alpine Ambitions: Austrians and the Development of American Ski Culture and Resorts This public history project investigates the wholesale export of Austrian alpine expertise to the American ski mountains. It demonstrates that the modern U.S. ski industry is not merely a domestic success, but also a result of Austrian-American cultural and technical exchange. The project…
Visualizing Empire’s End: American Representations of the Habsburg World examines how the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy was represented in American visual and audiovisual media, including illustrated newspapers, press photography, rotogravure supplements, and early film. The project analyzes how American media transformed imperial dissolution into visual narratives of fragmentation, transition, national self-determination, and postwar reordering, with…
Vally Wieselthier: Sculpting Modernism, curated by Stephanie Buhmann at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, is the first comprehensive biographical exhibition in the United States dedicated to the Austrian-born ceramic artist Vally Wieselthier (1895–1945), a pioneering member of the Wiener Werkstätte and a transformative voice in modernist design. Tracing her full transatlantic trajectory—from her formative…
In 1571, a Habsburg wedding was celebrated in Vienna which included personifications of the four continents, one of which was the “King of America.” Among the artists involved in designing and planning the celebrations were Giuseppe Arcimboldo and a circle of humanist thinkers including Giovanni Battista Fonteo and Jacopo Strada. An investigation of drawings related…
The Austrian-born artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957), young promise of European modern art, arrives in the United States in 1929, a few days after the Wall Street Crash. As a single mother of an illegitimate child, she left to a step family in Austria, she was looking for a chance in the art world to…
International interdisciplinary conference “Reassessing Haydn’s Sacred Music” in Eisenstadt, Austria 12-14 June 2023, sponsored by the Haydn Society of North America and Internationale Joseph Haydn Privatstiftung Eisenstadt. Presenters will be leading scholars from the U.S. and Austria, and the sessions will be open to the public.
The main purpose of the proposed project is to present the life and work of Yoichi Okamoto to both an academic audience and the public via academic panels and corresponding publications, a physical exhibition, and a website. Okamoto was the personal photographer of General Mark Clark 1945–1948, head of the Pictorial Section United States Information…
Together with her daughter Leonille Wittgenstein and son Constantin Wittgenstein, celebrated Swiss-Hungarian actress Sunnyi Melles, who has i.a. performed the role of Jedermann’s lover (Buhlschaft) at the Salzburg Festival 1990-1993, will trace the eventful journey of Max Reinhardt’s life in a multimedial way, by reading from writings and contemporary documents, with music and sound design…
The book chronicles the life, work, and impact of Austrian-American Ella Briggs, an innovative artist, designer, and architect. Briggs appeared at the turning points and places of modernist history: she painted with the Secessionists in Vienna, created luminous rooms in Gilded Age New York, erected workers’ housing in the First Austrian Republic, and constructed suburban…