Last week I spent with a small crew of a director a producer a production manager and a production designer. I can not disclose what film we are preparing and I also can not say what castle has been chosen in the end.
There might be a bit of confusion in my pictures as sometimes I used my phone and sometimes I did use my Sony alpha 7 Mark II.
This particular post consists only of photos from my camera and I will share those taken on the phone in a different post.
I will try to stay in a chronological order as we drove from castle to castle.
We spent three days visiting various castles and buildings to find the perfect locations for the movie. I went some places where you normally only can go on guided tours or where they wouldn't even let you in. Those pictures will be redacted until I get a go that I can ublish them on my blog.
We started a tour in the building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (museum of art history). The building was built as a part of the Kaiserforum from 1871-1889 and was designed by the architects Gottfried Semper and Carl von Hasenauer. The building is situated in the heart of Vienna in the MQ the museums quarter at Burgring 5.
The first image shows the ceiling of the massive and imposant entrance hall.
The staircase is also a beauty in it self. Unfortunately I could not take pictures without having people on there.
The fresco above the staircase was done by Mihály Munkácsy a Hungarian artist.
Evrything in this building looks just amazing, even a simple hallway.
What would an Austrian Museum be without the emperor Kaiser Franz Joseph I. this is a work by Caspar Zumbusch.
This again is another perspective of the entrance hall.
Going inside we where looking for a room we could use as a gallery within our imaginary castle and so we went through a few rooms with amazing art from Tiziano and other great masters.
This painting by Tiziano who was creating art in Venice at around 1488-1576 is called Ecce Homo and depicts the scene when Jesus is dragged before Pontius Pilatus. The scale of this image is amazing and the center of attention is Jesus although he is clamped in the left side of the image. This is due to the brilliant composition of Tiziano. I stayed for a few minutes to look at this painting and you could find more and more details in it.
Another amazing staircase, I couldn't get enough of them so I had to take more pics.
and of course the entrance hall again from a different view.
This is an old stock. Yes back in the day when you bought stocks you actually got to hold the physical paper in your hands. This particular one granted you a part of A. Gerngross AG. Alfred Gerngross was the founder of the biggest "Kaufhaus" (shopping mall) in the monarchy. So this 200 Crowns stock can now be found in the museum.
Another stock from the Steyr Werke in upper Austria from 1926
A bunch of old Hungarian bills from a long time ago.
These are embossing dies for coins of various origin.
This was the last picture I took in the museum and off we went to the next castle. This is going to be the theme for my next post.
I hope you enjoyed this tiny little tour in the museum of fine arts in Vienna.
If you want to take a digital tour I strongly recommend to check out the official website
https://www.khm.at/en/ and check out the vast online collection here:
https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/As always thank you so much for your time and attention and hope to see many comments as I really like to answer those.
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