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Art, music, literature, and science in Vienna at the turn of the last century presented a series of wrenching dualities: reality and illusion, sexuality and death, the external world and the internal self. Celebrated art historian Alessandra Comini explores in a lively, authoritative text the demonic origins of the 1000-year-old Habsburg Empire, easternmost outpost of Christendom against the dreaded Ottoman Turks. Escape from death encouraged ...

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Overflowing with passion for her work as a scholar and teacher, Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Alessandra Comini reminisces through six decades as an unconventional art historian in this illustrated memoir. The author of award-winning books on Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Ludwig van Beethoven, Comini draws on her sixty years of daily journals, sharing research-related anecdo...

Researching for her book on 19th-century virtuoso pianist Clara Schumann and her eight children, Professor Megan Crespi encounters startling hatred or praise for them and for Clara's composer husband Robert. These strong reactions come in the form of grave vandalism, outrageous graffiti on Schumann museums across Germany, in Switzerland and Vienna, and even murder. Why? Megan's travel companion is her sister-in-law Susan, a pediatrician whose ...

In April of 1912, twenty-one-year old Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), known for his frank depictions of erotica as well as his Expressionist portraits, was arrested and imprisoned in a basement cell in the rural town of Neulengbach, some twenty miles from Vienna. There he made agonized diary entries and created twelve drawings of his dank surroundings. Half a century later, in August of 1963, as an enterprising PhD student from Texas...

Egon Schiele was a meteor that flashed across the galaxy of Viennese art at the beginning of the last century. Although he lived only twenty-eight years-dying quite suddenly of influenza in 1918 just as World War I came to an end-he left a stunning pictorial oeuvre. Schiele's obsession with sexuality, his own and that of others, made him at once a voyeur and a participant in that sexual imperative which Freud was concurrently plumbing with suc...

Austria's most influential and revered artist at the beginning of the last century was Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Master of three genres-allegory, portraiture, and landscape-his alluring imagery, decorative colors, and sinuous line seduce the eye and stir the mind. His landscapes are studded with opulent symbols of regeneration and fecundity, while his philosophical allegories enact and question the eternal recurrence of life and death. During ...

A moving van filled with eleven Wassily Kandinsky paintings stolen from Munich's famous Lenbach House Museum during a violent neo-Nazi demonstration is hijacked in Slovakia. Two rival Kandinsky collectors appear to be involved: Igor Rasputin of Odessa, visiting in Munich, and Boris Zima of Moscow, whose agent Raisa Sokolova is keeping tabs on Rasputin. Puzzlingly, the museum adamantly declares there has been no theft, even though its night wat...

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz-the Grieving Parents-have been stolen from a World War I soldiers' cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such an unlikely theft? On a visit to the director of the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, retired art history professor and Kollwitz scholar Megan Crespi is asked to aid in tracking down the robber or robbers. As she pursues clues and visits possible suspect...

Retired art history professor Megan Crespi, an expert on the Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, is called to Vienna to help solve the brutal murder of a museum night watchman whose naked cadaver was propped up in the same pose as the nude self-portrait by Schiele above him. A series of attacks relating to Schiele occur, ranging from "censoring" of his nude figures' private parts with spray paint to desecration of his burial site. Amid restitut...

In this third book in the Megan Crespi Mystery Series, a major double portrait by the Viennese Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka showing himself with his lover Alma Mahler has been stolen from the Basel Museum in Switzerland. Left in its place is an exact duplicate, except that Alma has been replaced by an unknown woman. Retired professor of art history Megan Crespi, an expert on Viennese art, is called in to help with the investigation. Th...

During a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera there is an explosion in the foyer just off the auditorium. Auguste Rodin's famous 1909 bronze bust of composer/conductor Gustav Mahler has been blown up and a hate-filled note has been left at the scene demanding that there be "no more Jews defiling our culture." Retired art historian/musicologist Megan Crespi, in Vienna to lecture, is at the performance with her former stu...

Brahms in Hamburg und Wien Der zweite Megan Crespi-Krimi In einem Antiquitätenladen in Austin, Texas, entdeckt Megan Crespi eine besondere Büste: der junge Brahms ohne Bart. Ob es ein Werk der deutsch-amerikanischen Bildhauerin Elisabet Ney ist, die in Austin ein prachtvolles Haus bewohnte und vermutlich mit Johannes Brahms, ganz sicher jedoch mit dessen Freund, dem Virtuosen Joseph Joachim, bekannt war? Das ist nur die erste einer ganzen Rei...

Brahms in Hamburg und Wien Der zweite Megan Crespi-Krimi In einem Antiquitätenladen in Austin, Texas, entdeckt Megan Crespi eine besondere Büste: der junge Brahms ohne Bart. Ob es ein Werk der deutsch-amerikanischen Bildhauerin Elisabet Ney ist, die in Austin ein prachtvolles Haus bewohnte und vermutlich mit Johannes Brahms, ganz sicher jedoch mit dessen Freund, dem Virtuosen Joseph Joachim, bekannt war? Das ist nur die erste einer ganzen Rei...

After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies an unknown bust of the young, beardless Johannes Brahms in a local antique store, and happily acquires it. Two days later she speaks on Brahms and the Visual Arts in his birth city of Hamburg. She continues to Vienna where she is to lecture on Gustav Klimt and Music and attend a controversial concert...

Mordende Dirigentinnen, durchgeknallte Museumsdirektoren, selbstvergessene Aktivisten - in Alessandra Cominis Krimis lässt sich so manche Parallele zur heutigen Kunst- und Kulturszene erahnen. Hier fällt ein Schuss, dort werden unliebsame Zeitgenossen im Rhein versenkt. Die Schauplätze und Tatorte sind weltweit verstreut: etwa wenn am Bonner Münsterplatz direkt beim Beethoven-Denkmal eine brisante Demo stattfindet, oder wenn die Orion, ein Kre...

A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming "Beethoven Was Black" in Bonn's historic Münsterplatz with its majestic monument to the Bonn-born composer. Attending a Beethoven jubilee conference in the city is retired professor turned art crimes detective Megan Crespi with her American colleague and Beethoven expert, Will Meridian. During their symposium on the composer one of the participants is also killed. Who is the assassin...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Zum Jubiläumsjahr 2020 Wie haben die Zeitgenossen Ludwig van Beethoven erlebt? Wie entstand aus Verehrung und Missverstehen das "titanische" Beethoven-Bild der Romantik? Die Spurensuche in Bild, Wort und Skulptur führt über die legendäre Wiener Apotheose Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart. Der reich bebilderte Band ist eine Freude für Kenner und Liebhaber Beethovens, aber auch für alle, die mehr über ihn e...

During a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Vienna State Opera there is an explosion in the foyer just off the auditorium. Auguste Rodin's famous 1909 bronze bust of composer/conductor Gustav Mahler has been blown up and a hate-filled note has been left at the scene demanding that there be "no more Jews defiling our culture." Retired art historian/musicologist Megan Crespi, in Vienna to lecture, is at the performance with her former stu...

A moving van filled with eleven Wassily Kandinsky paintings stolen from Munich's famous Lenbach House Museum during a violent neo-Nazi demonstration is hijacked in Slovakia. Two rival Kandinsky collectors appear to be involved: Igor Rasputin of Odessa, visiting in Munich, and Boris Zima of Moscow, whose agent Raisa Sokolova is keeping tabs on Rasputin. Puzzlingly, the museum adamantly declares there has been no theft, even though its night wat...