High School | Themed Tours

Guided Tours & Workshops for Young People Ages 14–19
 

Be it as an overview, as a thematic emphasis, or as final exam preparation: the Art Education department offers tours and workshops for upper grade level students to go with all exhibitions. Materials to touch are on hand to help explain artistic techniques and create a connection with our young participants’ own worlds. In the studio workshops, we put what we’ve seen and learned into practice. We paint, draw, build, or sketch depending on the theme and the chosen workshop duration.

All themed tours are also available in English, Italian, French, and Spanish; please indicate your choice of language on the inquiry form.

INQUIRE NOW
 

THE VIENNESE BOHÈME: WORKS OF THE HAGEN SOCIETY
 

In the exhibition The Viennese Bohéme: Works of the Hagen Society, students immerse themselves in the fascinating world of art and lifestyle around 1900. The tour provides a lively introduction to the works of the Hagen Society: from pointed caricatures to the unique lifestyle of this community of artists.

In the subsequent workshop (either 30 or 60 minutes), the young people take up the humorous depictions and put their own ideas into practice in a creative way. Various materials are available to create individual caricatures – playful, critical, and with plenty of room for creativity.

BRIGITTE KOWANZ: LIGHT IS WHAT WE SEE
 

The exhibition invites schoolchildren on a fascinating journey into the world of light art. Brigitte Kowanz is one of Austria's most important contemporary artists. Her work revolves around the central question: “What is light?” – and opens up new ways of experiencing art, space, and information. The tour covers topics ranging from the development of the communication society from Morse code to digital transmission and information encryption. 

Light can make everything visible, but often remains invisible itself. Mirror rooms, black light, and interactive compositions allow students to experience this paradox for themselves.

In the workshops, students explore Morse code; in 30 minutes, they create a black light work, and in the 60-minute workshop, they use drawing techniques and mixed media.

GOTHIC MODERN: MUNCH, BECKMANN, KOLLWITZ
 

The Gothic period is often associated with darkness and mysticism – but it was also an era of change, characterized by curiosity, development, and innovation. It was precisely these elements that inspired artists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, who were themselves searching for new forms of expression and answers to the questions of their time. Paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings by artists such as Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz, and Paula Modersohn-Becker are juxtaposed with works by Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, and Albrecht Dürer. The Gothic Modern exhibition shows how both eras address central human experiences such as birth, death, suffering, sexuality, community, and the forces of nature, and seek new perspectives on art and society.

The guided tour offers exciting philosophical insights into historical and modern ways of thinking and stimulates discussion.

The tour can be combined with a 30- or 60-minute workshop. In the 30-minute workshop, students transfer the aesthetics of a woodcut into a drawing technique, creating a fabulous tree creature. If 60 minutes are available in the studio, a collage work in the style of a woodcut is created.

THE BATLINER COLLECTION
 

unites the most beautiful works of classical modernism. In age-appropriate and richly varied ways, we investigate that era’s most famous artists together with the participating students. These tours each last one hour and can be booked on their own or in combination with a 30- or 60-minute workshop.

Choose from the following themes:

Monet to Picasso
A compact overview of classical modernism’s most important aspects in one guided tour! This tour lasts one hour and can be combined with a workshop (30 or 60 minutes).

Portraiture
We retrace the transformation of portraiture that took place between impressionism and cubism.
In the 30-minute workshop, students produce self-portraits on hand mirrors. In the 60-minute workshop, they develop these self-portraits into cubist works.

Still Lifes
We use the exhibited still lifes to take a closer look at classical modernist trends. The 30-minute workshop has us arrange still lifes and draw them. In the 60-minute workshop, we realize our still lifes with paintbrushes and gouache.

Landscapes
The landscapes we view here reveal to us the essential features of impressionism, expressionism, and cubism. In the 30-minute workshop, participants use pastels to reproduce a landscape photograph in a style of their choice. In the 60-minute workshop, they do this using poster paint.

Sculpture
The focus in this tour variant is on the Batliner Collection’s three-dimensional objects. In the 30-minute workshop, student create an additive clay sculpture. In the 60-minute workshop, they do the same with clay or modeling compound and then add color.

Artists on the Run
This tour gives students an opportunity to engage with the topics of migration and displacement in light of the biographies and works of Chagall, Magritte, and Picasso. In the 30-minute studio workshop, our young participants face the challenge of having to set out on new creative paths as artists. What to do when one’s accustomed motifs are no longer accessible or when familiar working materials can’t be had? In the 60-minute workshop, we use the additional time to reflect on this as a group.

Writing Workshop
Inspiration from the collection’s masterpieces gives rise to free prose, poetry, or mini-dramas. We experiment with narrative perspectives and author our texts directly in the exhibition hall. This writing workshop lasts either 90.

Addressing Conflicts with Art
Conflicts are difficult—but also important in developing our own personalities and attitudes. Here, we analyze strategies of messaging and of perception. The 30-minute workshop sees us analyze group dynamics and practice esteeming interaction while creating an artwork as a group. The 60-minute workshop gives us additional time to practice and repeat.

Monet to Picasso - Online
Via Zoom, the art educator connects to your class at the agreed-upon time and brings the masterpieces of the exhibition Monet to Picasso to the classroom projector screen.

PRICE & DURATIONS

Admission | free

Tour contribution per participating class member:

Please note that the tour time also includes associated procedures, such as handing in the wardrobe together.

Prices include VAT. | Teachers and accompanying adults (max. 2 per class/group) visit the exhibition for free and bear responsibility for the participating minors while at the museum. | School classes with more than 15 students will be divided.

These guided tours are wheelchair-accessible, and we warmly welcome classes with and for students with disabilities.

Reservation Inquiries & Contact Information

ALBERTINA Art Education Department
Weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at T: +43 1 534 83 540
or E: 

INQUIRE NOW