Women artists disrupted boundaries merging "art" and "craft," "decorative" and "profound," and "masculine" and "feminine" in art.

Architecture, theater, furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, fashion, jewelry, graphic arts, typography and book design, fine arts.

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef.

An unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.

7 of Schnitzler's best known plays explore love, sexuality, and death, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century Vienna, and to Modernism in general.

WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war. A masterpiece of Viennese modernism.

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. Also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl in a decaying empire.

Alma Mahler: one of the century's most charismatic personalities. Opens with her affair with Gustav Klimt and ends shortly before her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Portrays Vienna of 1900, significant artistic events, insights into the behavioral patterns and linguistic conventions.

About the Jewish coffee-house world in Vienna: Torberg's personal memories of summer resorts, sports, dinner parties, and Freud's psychiatric clinic builds a monument to a time and a culture.

In the golden age of literary Vienna, Stefan Zweig's autobiography details travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London.