Orient & Occident

One of the most important Austrian painters to visit the Orient was Leopold Carl Mu¨ller, who produced many market scenes and figures over the course of nine winters in Egypt. Other Austrian painters, such as Alois Schönn, Alphons Mielich and Bernhard Fiedler, also travelled to the Orient, and Rudolf Swoboda and Hermann von Königsbrunn even reached India and Ceylon. August von Pettenkofen, Otto von Thoren and Johann Gualbert Raffalt looked for inspiration closer to home, in neighbouring Hungary. This publication brings together the impressions of these artists of Hungary, the Balkan, Greece and Constantinople, Egypt and the Holy Land, as well as India, Ceylon and the Indian Ocean.