Mein romantisches habsburgisches Reich

My romantic habsburg Empire

I know. The Habsburg Empire wasn’t very romantic to live in for most of its inhabitans. No one country was or is. But still, it’s influence on Europe was everlasting, and so was it’s influence on me. With my grandmother being born in the Habsburg Empire, I have been wondering all my live how this was. And I traveled and travel it, again and again, amazed by its vastness, diversity and romantic landscapes and culture. I make gumprints and other alternative prints of every corner I visit….for me, this empire is struly alive in my mind as the empire of wonders, still there for all to see.

The Lost Habsburg Empire

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, the last Habsburg empire, went down in the First World War. It is no more. Although...the atmosphere of this strange empire remains with us, when travelling to the lands that once belonged to it. Its historic, romantic and rough character as described by authors and poets from Middle Europe for centuries can still be seen. With gumprints.