Interior Kunsthistoriches Museum

Vienna - Sisi - and more art

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May 18th 2008
The second day in Vienna, we went to the Royal Apartments and the Sisi Museum. Sisi was the Empress Elizabeth—a gorgeously beautiful girl who married the Crown Prince of the Austro Hungarian empire at aged 15 just at the end of the 19th century—and how she was oppressed by this, was obviously bulimic, then depressed, was fixated on keeping her beauty, had her children alienated from her, trave ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more