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The Air Education and Training Command took responsibility of the 344th Training Squadron Detachment 2 Aug. 25, 2022, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, after an official transfer authority from the 711th Human Performance Wing. The detachment provides Air Force Specialty Code courses, acceleration training for all fighter aircrew, and aerospace physiology initial and refresher training for all aircrew.
Command Sgt. Maj. Norman Deschene, right, is presented a ceremonial noncommissioned officers saber on behalf of the North Dakota Army National Guard’s sergeants major during his retirement ceremony Oct. 17 at the Raymond J. Bohn Armory in Bismarck, North Dakota. Presenting the saber, from left, are Command Sgt. Maj. Brad Heim, North Dakota state command sergeant major, and Command Sgt. Maj. David Lien. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Brett Miller, Joint Force Headquarters)
Maj. Gen. Antonio Munera, the Commanding General of U.S. Army Cadet Command, and Command Sgt. Maj. Roy Young, the Command Sergeant Major of U.S. Army Cadet Command, present awards during the closing ceremony of the 2023 JROTC Academic Bowl Competition on June 26 in Washington D.C. Hundreds of All-Service JROTC Cadets met at the capitol to compete on a national stage and demonstrate the knowledge and skills learned in JROTC throughout the year. | Sarah Windmueller, U.S. Army Cadet Command Public Affairs
ANSBACH, Germany – Thirteen NCOs from Installation Management Command – Europe (IMCOM-E) participated in an induction ceremony at the Ansbach Theater on Bismarck Kaserene this afternoon, Sept. 14.
The time-honored ceremony which marks each participant’s transition into the Non-Commissioned Officers Corps was hosted by U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach (USAG Ansbach) Command Sgt. Major Philson Tavernier and attended by Command Sgt. Majors representing every Garrison in Europe: Command Sgt. Maj. Bryant Mason (USAG Italy), Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Sutterfield (USAG Bavaria), Command Sgt. Maj. Chad Pinkston (USAG Wiesbaden), Command Sgt. Maj. Samara Pitre (USAG Benelux), Command Sgt. Maj. Brett Waterhouse (USAG Rheinland Pfalz) and Command Sgt. Maj. Toese Tia (USAG Stuttgart).
The thirteen Soldiers proceeding through the NCO arches today: Sgt. Trayvon Johnson, Sgt. Orlando Lambert, Sgt. Jarod Phillips, Sgt Kiana Mitchell, Sgt. Tyler Shicks, Sgt. Jacob Doughty, Sgt. Leon Mendozamiranda, Sgt Scarlett Mitchell, Sgt. Chase Sykes, Sgt. Jose Heredia, Sgt. Krystal Lopez and Sgt. John Seely.
To learn more about the people and facilities of the U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach (USAG Ansbach) and the people they support in Ansbach, Katterbach and Illesheim, visit the community website at ansbach.army.mil
Photo by Michael Beaton, U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach Public Affairs (RELEASED).
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Signatures des parchemins lors de la prise d’armes, sous la présidence du Colonel (Col) Stéphane Lafaut, commandant du 5e groupe-brigade mécanisé du Canada (5 GBMC) et en présence du Major-général Alain Forand, colonel du royal 22e régiment (R22R), à l’occasion de la passation de commandement du 3e bataillon royal 22e régiment entre le Col. Roch Pelletier et le lieutenant-colonel (LCol) Steve Jourdain le 5 juillet 2012 à la citadelle de Québec..
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Signatures of the parchments at the change of command ceremony, under the chairmanship of Colonel (Col) Stephane Lafaut, commander of the 5th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (5 CMBG) and in the presence of Major-General Alain Forand, Colonel of the Royal 22nd Régiment (R22R), on the occasion of the change of command of the 3rd Battalion Royal 22nd Régiment between Col. Roch Pelletier and Lieutenant-Colonel (LCol) Steve Jordan on July 5, 2012 at La Citadelle de Québec..
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From a painting by Edward Mortelmans.
Blue Ribbon puzzle by Tower Press.
Over 1200 pieces.
34 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.
One piece missing - not surprising given the age of the puzzle and condition of the box.
The 518th Sustainment Brigade says farewell to the out going commander, Col. Swanson and welcomes incoming commander, Col. Hagenbeck. Brig. Gen. Deborah L. Kotulich, commanding general, 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) was the guest speaker during the chain of command ceremony in Knightdale, N.C. May 21, 2017
Maj. Gen. Bradley A. Becker assumes command for the United States Army Military District of Washington (MDW) and the Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region in a ceremony hosted by Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, Vice Chief of Staff, and Admiral William E. Gortney, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command, in Comny Hall on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., June 9, 2015. Passing the command was Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan. (U.S. Army Photos by Spc Cody W. Torkelson)
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Ron Clark (right), commanding general of the 25th Infantry Division, poses for a photo with Command Chief Warrant Officer 5 Myke Lewis, his wife, Mrs. Sherrie Lewis, and Command. Sgt. Maj. Brian Hester, in front of the 25th Infantry Division Memorial, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Feb. 26, 2019. The Commander's Award for Public Service is the fourth highest public service decoration the United States Department of the Army can bestow upon a civilian, ranking directly below the Meritorious Public Service Medal. (U.S. Army photo by 1st Lt. Ryan DeBooy)
CINCINNATI – Brig. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser assumed command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Great Lakes and Ohio River Division during a ceremony here Sept. 26.
The USACE Deputy Chief of Engineers Maj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens presided over the ceremony while the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division’s Program Director David Dale oversaw the exchange of colors.
Maj. Gen. Stevens welcomed Brig. Gen. Kaiser and his family to the team. “Brigadier General Kaiser is a great leader who brings the right amount of positive energy needed to expertly lead the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division and further the mission,” said Stevens.
As commander of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, Brig. Gen. Kaiser is responsible for directing federal water resource development in the Great Lakes and Ohio River basins, which consists of seven engineer districts that operate in a seventeen state area.
The division’s missions include planning, construction and operations of navigation structures and flood damage reduction, hydropower, environmental restoration, water conservation, recreation and disaster assistance. The division also executes military construction in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan with design and construction of barracks, hospitals, airfields and family housing on military installations.
Brig. Gen. Kaiser previously served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in England and commander of the 20th Engineer Brigade at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
He received his commission, in 1987, upon graduation from Marquette University with a degree in Civil Engineering and later received a master’s degree in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. His military education includes the Engineer Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the British Army Staff College and the U.S. Army War College. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jacqueline Tate)
Dec 7, 2014, Soldiers from North Carolina National Guard's 60th Troop Command and their families celebrate the holidays at the Claude T Bowers Building in Raleigh NC. Santa Claus gives out gifts to military kids and the whole command poses for photos. (North Carolina National Guard Image by Staff Sgt. Brendan Stephens)
Brig. Gen. (Va.) Justin P. Carlitti, Sr., took command of the Virginia Defense Force from Maj. Gen. (Va.) John Taylor in a ceremony Sept. 28, 2014, at Fort Pickett. Va. Brig. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of Virginia, conducted the exchange of unit colors that signified the transfer of command. Carlitti was promoted Sept. 27 and previously served as the chief of staff for the VDF. Taylor is retiring after leading the VDF for eight years and serving in the Virginia National Guard for more than 33 years. The VDF is an all-volunteer force authorized by the Code of Virginia, organized under the Virginia Department of Military Affairs and reporting to the Adjutant General of Virginia. The members of the VDF volunteer their time for training and are only paid when called to state active duty by an authorization from the Governor of Virginia. Members of the VDF bring a wealth of skills from their civilian careers with many members having military, law enforcement, fire service or telecommunications backgrounds. During domestic operations, the VDF deploys different response teams that provide a variety of functions including communications support with Incident Management Assistance Teams, High Frequency Radio Teams, State Agencies Radio System Teams and Mobile Communication Platform Teams. Other VDF missions include providing augmentation teams to the Virginia Guard Joint Operations Center and Virginia Emergency Operations Center as well as resources for chaplain support and access control. For more information about the VDF, visit www.vdf.virginia.gov. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Army Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Troxell, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presents challenge coins to soldiers before speaking at an Association of the United States Army breakfast for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh regions in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2019. Troxell stressed the importance of a fit and lethal force to combat growing threats around the globe. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)
Col. John DiGiambattista, commander, 1st Brigade Combat Team “Ironhorse,” 1st Cavalry Division, relinquished command of the brigade he led for 32 months on three continents, partnering with more than 20 nations in diverse training rotations and real-world missions Jan. 27, 2017.
DiGiambattista relinquished command to Col. Wilson Rutherford IV, during a change of command ceremony at Cooper Field. The two men had served together earlier in their careers as captains in the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
For more info: www.forthoodsentinel.com/news/hood-welcomes-new-armored-b...
Brig. Gen. Greg Anderson, director of operations, U.S. Africa Command, is promoted to the rank of major general during a ceremony hosted by Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, at Kelley Barracks, near Stuttgart, Germany, on Sept. 1, 2021.
KABUL, Afghanistan - General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, Afghan National Army Chief of General Staff, center, shares a laugh with U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Gary Patton, left, NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan (NTM-A), deputy commanding general (programs), and Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV, right, Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan and Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, during a recent visit to Camp Eggers, Afghanistan. The NTM-A / CSTC-A, in coordination with NATO Allies, partners and key Afghan stakeholders generates the Afghan National Security Forces, develops capable ministerial systems, and resources the fielded force to build sustainable capacity and capability in order to enhance the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s ability to achieve stability and security in Afghanistan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kirk Putnam/RELEASED)
Command of the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital changed hands for the first time since its Aug. 31, 2011, opening during a ceremony in front of the facility Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Col. Susan Annicelli relinquished command of the award-winning hospital to Col. Charles Callahan as hundreds of medical staff, patients, friends and Family observed.
Soldiers from U.S. Army Central Command Warrior Leadership Course conduct their final training lanes and evaluations with squads of soldiers versus mock opposing forces across multiple lanes during the night of July 10, 2014 in Camp Buehring, Kuwait. (N.Y. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Harley Jelis/Released)
Command staff from the Republic of Korea and U.S. Marine Corps pose for a photo after a ROK-U.S. leadership exchange as part of Marine Expeditionary Force Exercise 2014 at Pohang, Republic of Korea March 15. MEFEX exercises the interoperability and combined capability of the ROK and U.S. Marine Corps forces as they build upon pre-existing relationship with the motto "Invincible Marines, We go together." (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Matthew Manning/Released)
ORLANDO, Fla. – Hundreds of family members, civic leaders and community partners gathered at the Clarion Inn in Orlando to bid farewell to more than 200 Army Reserve Soldiers from the 143d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) during a deployment ceremony conducted Feb. 24, 2018.
“You are looking at an amazing formation of Soldiers who can take on any mission,” said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Deborah L. Kotulich, commanding general, 143d ESC, addressing the troops and their guests packed into the Clarion Inn’s Grand Ballroom. “I for one couldn’t be more grateful or proud of their tireless effort.”
The ceremony honored the men and women of Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 143d ESC, who volunteered to leave their friends and loved ones to join the thousands and men and women supporting three peacekeeping operations in Central Asia.
“We will soon oversee the sustainment needs of hundreds of units conducting countless missions throughout Central Command’s Theater of Operations,” said Kotulich. “We have some of the finest military minds who will manage this complex logistical system that ensures the world’s finest military is properly supplied and equipped to overcome any adversary.”
Although their deployment will not officially begin until the Soldiers board a plane bound for their pre-mobilization site, Kotulich recognized the precious time her Soldiers sacrificed to prepare for the year-long journey.
“We went through not one but two major exercises in 2017,” said Kotulich. “The meticulous planning, coordination and execution for those exercises took place as the Army Reserve began implementing Ready Force X, a readiness program designed to prepare units to deploy in the shortest time possible. The [operational tempo] caused by this major transformation proved challenging but absolutely necessary to ensure our Army Reserve is the most capable, combat-ready and lethal federal reserve force in our nation’s history.”
To better provide a proper sendoff of ceremonial proportions, the 143d ESC turned to several community organizations who always stand ready to support America’s service members. Volunteers from United States Overseas Central Florida served cakes and refreshments, while the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2093 Community Band played popular patriotic tunes.
“It was a great honor to provide live music for these brave men and women,” said Wilbur C. Smith, the band’s director. “It’s a small but ‘harmonious’ way to express our gratitude.”
The formation’s dismissal signaled the Soldiers’ to find their friends and loved ones huddled throughout the ballroom. As parents, spouses and children embraced their Soldier one last time, Kotulich recognized the many sacrifices that will soon settle on those who must remain on the homefront.
“We owe our families a debt of gratitude for the love and support that allows each and every one of us to do this,” said Kotulich. “We understand this isn’t easy for them, but their efforts give us the strength to proceed forward and achieve more than we thought possible.”
U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, 143d ESC
Story by Sgt. John L. Carkeet, 14d ESC
Four of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command's top safety performers received recognition from Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, IMCOM commander, in front of a general session at the Installation Management Symposium April 20.
The two garrisons and two individuals won their categories in the 2011 Secretary of the Army, Chief of Staff Safety Awards program, the Army's top honor in the field.
Fort Campbell, Ky., received the award in the excellence in explosives safety category for a team effort in maintaining excellence in their explosives safety program. The garrison's proactive accident prevention and public awareness training was recognized by the department of defense explosive safety board inspection team as a best practice. Its leaders maintain active involvement in explosive safety efforts.
Fort Bragg, N.C., received the exceptional organization safety award. The garrison directorate of plans, training and mobilization was recognized for participation in the garrison safety program, proactive workplace safety efforts reducing significantly both costs and number of accidents in fiscal 2010, and active leadership involvement.
Maj. John R. Braun, of the Fort Campbell, Ky., directorate of emergency services, received the individual award of excellence for reducing the accident rate through an effective accident prevention program.
James P. Varney, serving the Fort Greely, Alaska, garrison, won the individual award for excellence in safety as a contractor for improving winter driving safety and cold weather injury awareness programs for Soldiers, Family members, Army Civilians and contractors new to the climate.
About the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:
IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe â We are the Army's Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle.
Our Mission: Our mission is to provide Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service.
Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizationsâ mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.
To learn more about IMCOM:
Homepage: www.army.mil/imcom
www.facebook.com/InstallationManagementCommunity
www.youtube.com/installationmgt
U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Jenks, the senior enlisted Soldier in the New York National Guard, speaks to Soldiers promoted during a promotion ceremony at the Javits Center Vaccination site in New York, N.Y., March 18, 2021.
The National Guard has hundreds of Guardsmen and women deployed to the vaccination site to support staffing for the site. The New York State Department of Health conducts vaccination efforts for members of the community over age 65 beginning January 13, 2021. Eligible members of the public, 18 and over, can register for a vaccine appointment through the Department of Health website: am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Sebastian Rothwyn)
Prior to the change of command ceremony, Col. James Walsh and his wife Kelsey received from Eighth Army leaders for their service to the brigade.
During the change of command, the mantle of leadership was passed from Col. Walsh to Col. Paul Oh.
Following the ceremony, Col. Oh and his family hosted a reception and Col. Walsh and his family were wished farewell by those in attendance.
Team Army competitors have a friendly scrimmage match with Team Navy competitors at the 2016 Department of Defense Warrior Games sitting volleyball training session at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June 11, 2016. The DoD Warrior Games, June 15-21, is an adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured service members and Veterans. Athletes representing teams from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and the United Kingdom Armed Forces compete in archery, cycling, track, field, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, and wheelchair basketball. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Michael Ohliger/Not Released)
170516-N-GL340-044 RIJEKA, Croatia (May 16, 2017) A dock worker paints the hull of the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) at Viktor Lenac shipyard in Rijeka, Croatia, May 16, 2017. Mount Whitney, the U.S. 6th Fleet command and control ship, forward deployed to Gaeta, Italy, operates with a combined crew of U.S. Navy Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Feddersen/Released)
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Sept. 19, 2012) - U.S. Marine Corporal Patrick Thompson, assigned to Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Pacific, trains with sailors from the Bangladesh Special Warfare Diving and Salvage Command during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2012. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Sean Furey)
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Commanding General Defense Security Command, Republic of Korea, Army Lt. Gen. Hyun Chun Cho, places a gift in a display case following a wreath-laying ceremony at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, May 14, 2015, Arlington, Va. Dignitaries from all over the world pay respects to those buried at Arlington National Cemetery in more than 3000 ceremonies each year. (U.S. Army photo by Rachel Larue/Released)
The Anointment of David, around 1555
Veronese's masterly command of the broadly laid-out, theatrical staging of the pictur's episode has its fullest effect in large-format paintings. The main figure is never alone at the centre - in this scene from the Old Testament it is the shepherd boy David who is anointed by the Prophet Samuel to be the future king of Israel - but many figures are spread out like a relief over the surface of the picture, flowing one into the next by means of colour and movement. At the sides, like theatrical scenery, atmospheric landscapes frame the main event.
Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), tätig in Venedig
Salbung Davids, um 1555
Vor allem bei Gemälden großen Formats kommt Veroneses Meisterschaft der breit angelegten, bühnenhaften Inszenierung des Bildgeschehens zur vollen Wirkung. Im Zentrum steht nie die Hauptfigur allein - bei dieser Szene aus dem Alten Testament ist es der Hirtenknabe David, der eben vom Propheten Samuel zum künftigen König Israels gesalbt wird - sondern viele Gestalten breiten sich reliefartig über die Bildfläche aus, in Farbe und Bewegung von einer zur anderen überleitend. Seitlich schließen hier stimmungsvolle Landschaftsräume an.
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
Federal Museum
Logo KHM
Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Founded 17 October 1891
Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria
Management Sabine Haag
www.khm.at website
Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.
The museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.
History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .
Architectural History
The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).
From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.
Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.
Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.
The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .
Kuppelhalle
Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)
Grand staircase
Hall
Empire
The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.
189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:
Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Antique Collection
The coins and medals collection
Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects
Weapons collection
Collection of industrial art objects
Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)
Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.
Restoration Office
Library
Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.
1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.
The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.
Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.
First Republic
The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.
It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.
On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.
Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.
With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Collection of ancient coins
Collection of modern coins and medals
Weapons collection
Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Picture Gallery
The Museum 1938-1945
Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.
With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.
After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.
The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.
The museum today
Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.
In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.
Management
1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials
1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director
1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director
1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director
1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director
1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation
1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation
1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director
1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation
1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director
1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director
1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director
1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director
1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director
1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director
1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director
1990: George Kugler as interim first director
1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director
2009-2019: Sabine Haag as general director
2019– : Eike Schmidt (art historian, designated)
Collections
To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.
Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)
Picture Gallery
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Vienna Chamber of Art
Numismatic Collection
Library
New Castle
Ephesus Museum
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Arms and Armour
Archive
Hofburg
The imperial crown in the Treasury
Imperial Treasury of Vienna
Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage
Insignia of imperial Austria
Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire
Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure
Ecclesiastical Treasury
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna
Armory in Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle
Collections of Ambras Castle
Major exhibits
Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:
Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438
Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80
Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16
Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526
Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07
Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75
Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68
Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06
Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508
Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32
The Little Fur, about 1638
Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Kids, 1560
Tower of Babel, 1563
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564
Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565
Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Bauer and bird thief, 1568
Peasant Wedding, 1568/69
Peasant Dance, 1568/69
Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567
Cabinet of Curiosities:
Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543
Egyptian-Oriental Collection:
Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut
Collection of Classical Antiquities:
Gemma Augustea
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
Gallery: Major exhibits
This Grant tank was used by General Montgomery at El Alamein as a mobile command tank. The main gun (in the hull) is a wooden dummy to make more room inside for radio/communication equipment.
DHAKA, Bangladesh (Oct. 10, 2012) - Adm. Samuel J Locklear III is escorted by Bangladesh military personnel during an Honor Guard ceremony to inspect the troops in Dhaka Oct. 10. Military-to-military relations between the U.S. and Bangladesh underlined Locklear's visit to Bangladesh. (US PACOM photo by Army Staff Sgt. Carl N. Hudson)
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526th Quartermaster Composite Supply Company held a Change of Command ceremony today, December 18th 2020, Fort Riley KS., to bid farewell to CPT Jacob Ross as well as his family and welcome CPT Derek Norby and his wife and children to the Blackjack Company.
With the transfer of the unit's colors, the ceremony recognizes the company's newest commander. With the symbolic transfer of the colors comes the very real transfer of authority and responsibility for the Soldiers, equipment, and mission of the composite supply company.
Since August 2019, CPT Ross has given his complete attention to the Blackjack Company and its Soldiers. His dedication and professionalism will be missed, but the same standard can be expected from the incoming commander, CPT Norby.
CPT Norby comes to the company from the 1st Sustainment Brigade S3 office. We wish him the very best as he undertakes this command.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Nov. 4, 2012) - A MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the Island Knights of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 lifts supplies from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE 6) during a replenishment-at-sea. George Washington and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 provide a combat-ready force that protects and defends the collective maritime interest of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 William Pittman)121104-N-SF704-025
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