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The heirs to the Herzog Collection, the largest private art collection in Hungary prior to World War II, filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of...
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For months, the family of the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha has been fighting an ongoing drama with the Prague Municipal Gallery over who legally owns the artist’s work,...
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It’s raining in Budapest today—a welcome relief from the humid summer heat. But it got me to thinking: we’re already halfway though summer. I’m finding that every season here brings...
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Anyone with an interest in Central and Eastern Europe simply cannot avoid the Habsburg family. With the end of World War I, the great dynasty they had created over 20...
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The bookplate or ex libris has put bread and butter on many an artist’s table, and over the course of time has developed into a flourishing art form all of its own....
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Located in Berlin’s bohemian Mitte district, the newly opened SoHo House used to be a Jewish department store before Hitler’s Nazi regime claimed the space and converted it into a...
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“Its great courtyards and southern and western facades, which are not visible from the Danube and from the Pest side, have good 18th-century details and proportions, Baroque rather than classical,...
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Most appealing were the stories, many of them not unlike those of the dark tales told by the Brothers Grimm.
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In the actual home of his birth, the Zelazowa Wola, a new multi-media Chopin Museum has opened.
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Photo essay by Jessica Tudzin. Featured Lion’s Gate image by fellow expat Scott Warren.
