Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum was commissioned by a Hapsburg Emperor—and it shows. Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Austria's cultural impact far exceeds the country's small size. From the 18th ...

It’s only been a month since the new Austrian government came into power, but many in the arts community in Austria are already concerned about how the right-wing coalition might impact the country’s ...

A benedictine abbey in Kremsmünster, Austria, a town of just over 6,000 people, has been shaken from its relative calm as its clergy deals with an ongoing investigation into a slew of historic missing ...

The Austrian government is considering buying one of the country’s best-known private art collections in a bid to help save its owner’s company. Collector and businessman Karlheinz Essl has appealed ...

This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a ...

Nestled in the hills of Austria sits Gugging, an artists' colony with a difference where the worlds of psychiatry and art collide -- with spectacular success. Over the past 50 years, mentally ill ...

Austria's government said Thursday it cannot afford to buy back five Gustav Klimt paintings that a court has ordered returned to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her family.

An elderly Los Angeles woman who has fought for years to recover six paintings worth an estimated $150 million that were seized by the Nazis from her family in Vienna in 1939 is entitled to proceed in ...

With the opening of museums like Ronald Lauder 's Neue Galerie in New York City and new auction records being set for work by German and Austrian artists--a self-portrait by Max Beckmann sold for ...