EditorialMonument to Karl Renner next to the Austrian Parliament on Ringstrasse, Vienna, Austria. By Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009)and Josep Krawina (1928), 1967.
EditorialMonument to Karl Renner next to the Austrian Parliament on Ringstrasse, Vienna, Austria. By Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009)and Josep Krawina (1928), 1967.
EditorialLife in postwar-Vienna: May first parade on Vienna's Ringstrasse-boulevard. Flag-bearers open the parade of the Socialdemocratic Party. Vienna,1954.
EditorialCommunist demonstrators deflated the wheel of a bus, thus closing off Kaerntnerstrasse next to the Vienna Opera. The rioters disrupted traffic in downtown Vienna and stopped trains coming in from the country-side. The demonstrations were against a gove...
EditorialParade of Austrian gendarmes before President Karl Renner (standing, under canopy) to celebrate the gendarmeries' one hundredth anniversary of their founding. The units march past the still war-damaged Parliament building on the Ringstrasse-Boulevard, ...
EditorialA Vienna policeman directs traffic on the Ringstrasse-Boulevard in front of the Palais Epstein, the Soviet town-command. Banner celebrates the Red Army's 28th anniversary and huge portraits show Lenin and Stalin right and left of the Red Star.
EditorialMonument to Karl Renner next to the Austrian Parliament on Ringstrasse, Vienna, Austria. By Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009)and Josep Krawina (1928), 1967.
EditorialLife in postwar-Vienna: May first parade on Vienna's Ringstrasse-boulevard. Flag-bearers open the parade of the Socialdemocratic Party. Vienna,1954.
EditorialCommunist demonstrators deflated the wheel of a bus, thus closing off Kaerntnerstrasse next to the Vienna Opera. The rioters disrupted traffic in downtown Vienna and stopped trains coming in from the country-side. The demonstrations were against a gove...
EditorialParade of Austrian gendarmes before President Karl Renner (standing, under canopy) to celebrate the gendarmeries' one hundredth anniversary of their founding. The units march past the still war-damaged Parliament building on the Ringstrasse-Boulevard, ...
EditorialA Vienna policeman directs traffic on the Ringstrasse-Boulevard in front of the Palais Epstein, the Soviet town-command. Banner celebrates the Red Army's 28th anniversary and huge portraits show Lenin and Stalin right and left of the Red Star.
EditorialThe Vienna Opera on Ringstrasse-Boulevard. In 1860, architects Siccardsburg and Van der Nuelle began the new opera house which was opened with Mozart's Don Giovanni on May 25,1869. After severe bomb damage during WW II the opera reopened in 1955 with F...
EditorialDRAWING ~ 19TH ~ Bird's eye view of downtown Vienna and the new buildings along the Ringstrasse-Boulevard which replaced the bastions and ancient fortifications after the revolution of 1848 was put down. Sepia drawing by Gustav Veith, 1873.
EditorialVienna City-Hall (Rathaus), 1872-1883. Buildings along the Ringstrasse-boulevard represent historism's many facets: a Greek parliament, Renaissance museums and theatres and this neo-Gothic city-hall honouring the freedom of medieval towns.