Leopold Museum

We went to the Leopold Museum today with my german class and my german professor, Monika Johnson, who I love. The Leopold Museum is another of Vienna's famous art museums, named after the professor who donated his enourmous collection to the museum and giving it one of the world's largest collections, if not the largest, of Egon Schiele, the turn of the last century artist who was an early expressionist but mostly still associated with the Jugendstil style. We had a guided tour - auf Deutsch natürlich - and we ended up seeing a lot of the museum's most famous works, including Egon Schiele's Porträt von Wally, but also other artists works, including several works by Gustav Klimt. We learned about several of the cultural differences in artist expression and interpretation between the US and Austria, such as different implications in color meanings. I hung around with several of my friends for a bit and saw lots more awesome furniture, my favorite, before heading home to bake Torte and Kuchen for tomorrows German Referat (presentation), which is also my oral final exam.