The exhibition “The World of Fabergé,” dedicated to Carl Fabergé, jeweler to the Russian tsars, and other masters of Russian art, opened on Tuesday at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) in Vienna, Austria. The exhibition features over 160 masterpieces of Russian art loaned by two Moscow museums.
Visitors can admire, among other highlights, three of the ten Fabergé eggs belonging to the Moscow Kremlin Museums, as well as an Easter egg left unfinished due to the Russian Revolution of 1917, “Prince’s Constellation”, from the collection of the Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow. Carl Fabergé’s Easter egg “Moscow Kremlin”, presented by Russian Emperor Nicholas II to his wife in 1906, is at the centre of the exhibition.
This is the third joint project launched by the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Moscow Kremlin Museums over the past 25 years. The exhibition “The World of Fabergé”, open until 18 May, is a central event of the 2013–2015 Russian-Austrian Cultural Seasons.
The exhibits also include jewellery and goldsmithing objects (brooches, cigar cases, dishes, stone carvings, etc.) created by the workshops of Pavel Ovchinnikov, Carl Blant and Ivan Khlebnikov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and which belonged to the family of the Russian tsars.
© 2013 RIA Novosti, Andrey Zolotov. Original article (source).
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