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For the fourth time the International Heritage Photographic
Experience (IHPE) has been held in Austria, organised by the
Bundesdenkmalamt (Federal Office for the Care and Protection
of Monuments).
This year’s subject was the same as for Austria’s European
Heritage Day 2009: “Creativity and Innovation”. Therefore it
refers also to the topic of this years theme of the European Year
of Creativity and Innovation.
The competition was prepared in cooperation with the
Graphische (Federal Training and Research Institute for Graphic
Arts and Media). Children and young people were given the
chance to visit Vienna’s Hofburg and get to know places which
are not open for public in general. A warm “thank you” to all
participant teams of all organisations who made the annual
IHPE a story of success: Burghauptmannschaft Österreich,
Wiener Hofmusikkapelle and Hofburg Congress Center.
The enthusiasm of the young photographers for the historical
building complex of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace was noticeable
every moment. Up to 1918, the Imperial Palace was the center
of the vast empire of the Habsburg dynasty. They developed the
area from the “Old Palace”, dating from the thirteenth century,
to the most recent part, dating from the time around 1900.
The richness of ideas and the variety of different styles of the
complex can also be seen in the different visions.
The first picture was taken in the so called “Gips-Keller”. The cellar
of the Hofburg hauses a unique collection of plaster models,
which were used as sketches for the sculptures and magnificent
buildings of Vienna’s Ringstrasse done by renowned artists of
the age of historicism.
The second picture presents the cupola of the so called
Michaelertrakt, the Michaeler range which was reconstructed
at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The competition proves that children and young people are
interested in cultural heritage and facing the possibility of
seeing and arranging their own environment in different and
exciting ways. |
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