Online Collections
Everyday objects, made with aesthetic care:
Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte
Founded in 1903, the Wiener Werkstätte aimed to artistically infuse all areas of life. Soon it also included the production of postcards in its program, and numerous renowned artists contributed their designs and templates to this enterprise. Their exclusive design and relatively small print run also appealed to collectors of postcards and created a veritable passion for collecting, which continues unabated to this day.
Today, more than 400 Wiener Werkstätte postcards are in the Graphic Arts Collection of the Province of Upper Austria.
Explore our digital collections!
The collections of the Province of Upper Austria include more than 200,000 photographs. The OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH is continuously working on the digitization of these collections. On our new platform "Online Collections" this digital data is now accessible online.
[more...]
Autochromes taken by Margareta von Österreich-Toskana
Early colour photography from the private context of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine from 1910 to 1914
[more...]
Tips on using this site
Would you like to save or reuse a picture from our collections? You can find more information on our acceptable use policy here.
[more...]
NEW to our collections
Among the vast collections in the Department of Graphic Art of the Province of Upper Austria in the OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH, the historical Upper Austrian vedute are an essential part. The collection currently comprises over 5000 works on paper and is of particular importance in terms of art and cultural history. New to our collections is an album with watercolour paintings from the 1850s.
[more...]
Michaela Moscouw
The Viennese artist Michaela Moscouw (*1961) has been incessantly searching for traces of her self for over three decades.
Uncompromisingly, excessively and memorably, she circles her themes of self-staging, self-understanding, self-exposure and also self-extinction. Until the early 1980s, she painted abstract works, all of which she destroyed and filmed. With this she changed the medium - since then she works with photographic means. It is "the aestheticized body experience" that the artist is concerned with.
[more...]